Œufs des Viveurs (Cold Soft-Boiled Eggs with Lobster Sauce and Potato Salad)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cook the eggs mollets for 7 minutes and trim their undersides flat.
  2. Coat the eggs with sauce de Homard à l'Américaine bound with aspic jelly.
  3. Glaze escalopes of spiny lobster with Mayonnaise collée.
  4. Dress the eggs around a Salade de pommes de terre à la Parisienne, setting each egg on an escalope of spiny lobster.
  5. Surround the eggs with a turban of rounds of potato alternating with rounds of well-reddened marinated beetroot.

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