Fillets of Sole à la Sultane
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- sole fillets
- fish forcemeat
- fish fumet
- pommes Duchesse
- breadcrumbs
- fine Béchamel sauce
- Beurre de pistaches
- small round quenelles
- red pimento
Instructions
- Coat the sole fillets with fish forcemeat and roll them into paupiettes.
- Poach the paupiettes in fish fumet.
- Make croustades of pommes Duchesse: breadcrumb them, fry them and hollow them out.
- Set a paupiette in each croustade.
- Season a fine Béchamel sauce well and add 125 grammes of Beurre de pistaches per litre of sauce.
- Coat the paupiettes with the sauce and arrange them in a ring on a dish.
- Place on each paupiette a very thin small round quenelle, decorated on the side with a small crescent of red pimento.