Croquettes de Volaille (Poultry Croquettes)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Poultry flesh
- Mushrooms
- Truffles
- Velouté with mushroom essence
- 3 egg yolks
- Egg and breadcrumbs
- Clear Sauce Demi-glace or sauce Périgueux
Instructions
- Cut the poultry flesh, mushrooms and truffles into a salpicon, in the proportions established in the initial formula.
- Bind with a reduced Velouté flavoured with mushroom essence, adding 3 egg yolks per 300 grammes of mixture at the moment of mixing.
- Shape into rectangular croquettes, bread them à l'anglaise and fry at the moment of serving.
- Serve accompanied by clear Sauce Demi-glace or sauce Périgueux.