Mandarines à la Palikare (Mandarins with Saffron Rice)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- mandarins
- Riz à Entremets
- apricot syrup
Instructions
- Cut round the top of the mandarins, take out the segments without breaking them and trim them to the flesh.
- Flavour Riz à Entremets lightly with saffron.
- Fill the empty skins with the saffron rice.
- Mould more of the same rice in a small dome mould and turn it out onto a shaped base of rice.
- Cover the dome with the mandarin segments and coat them with apricot syrup.
- Arrange the filled skins around it, open side down.