Rizotto de Cailles (Quail Rizotto)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pound fresh pork leaf fat and add the same quantity of white truffle.
  2. Introduce a hazelnut-sized piece of this mixture into each quail.
  3. Cook the quails in butter, in a casserole.
  4. Add their fat to a Rizotto prepared in advance.
  5. Dress the Rizotto in a timbale, keeping a hollow in the middle for the quails.
  6. Place the quails in the hollow.
  7. Deglaze with game fumet and baste the quails with it at the last moment.

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