Fillets of Sole à la Bourguignonne

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Line the bottom of a buttered dish with a few fine rounds of onion previously stewed in butter.
  2. Arrange the fillets on top, lengthwise, and surround them with 3 medium raw mushrooms, sliced and sautéed in butter.
  3. Add a few grains of mignonnette pepper and 1 decilitre of red Mâcon wine, then poach in the oven.
  4. Reduce the cooking liquor by two thirds, thicken it with a little beurre manié and finish it with 25 grammes of butter.
  5. Sauce the fillets and glaze.

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