Mandarines à la Palikare (Mandarins with Saffron Rice)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cut round the top of the mandarins, take out the segments without breaking them and trim them to the flesh.
  2. Flavour Riz à Entremets lightly with saffron.
  3. Fill the empty skins with the saffron rice.
  4. Mould more of the same rice in a small dome mould and turn it out onto a shaped base of rice.
  5. Cover the dome with the mandarin segments and coat them with apricot syrup.
  6. Arrange the filled skins around it, open side down.

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