Rizotto de Cailles (Quail Rizotto)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Quails
- Fresh pork leaf fat
- White truffle
- Butter
- Rizotto
- Game fumet
Instructions
- Pound fresh pork leaf fat and add the same quantity of white truffle.
- Introduce a hazelnut-sized piece of this mixture into each quail.
- Cook the quails in butter, in a casserole.
- Add their fat to a Rizotto prepared in advance.
- Dress the Rizotto in a timbale, keeping a hollow in the middle for the quails.
- Place the quails in the hollow.
- Deglaze with game fumet and baste the quails with it at the last moment.