Tournedos Lesdiguières (on Onion Cases of Creamed Spinach, Glazed)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Choose onions large enough for a tournedos to be set on them, and trim them on the top.
  2. Blanch the onions almost until fully cooked.
  3. Remove the inside so as to form a kind of case.
  4. Fill the cases two-thirds full with spinach with cream.
  5. Finish with sauce Mornay and glaze in a hot oven at the last moment.
  6. Grill the tournedos and arrange each on a glazed, spinach-filled onion.

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