Tournedos Lesdiguières (on Onion Cases of Creamed Spinach, Glazed)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- tournedos
- onions
- spinach with cream
- sauce Mornay
Instructions
- Choose onions large enough for a tournedos to be set on them, and trim them on the top.
- Blanch the onions almost until fully cooked.
- Remove the inside so as to form a kind of case.
- Fill the cases two-thirds full with spinach with cream.
- Finish with sauce Mornay and glaze in a hot oven at the last moment.
- Grill the tournedos and arrange each on a glazed, spinach-filled onion.