Fillets of Sole Calypso
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- sole fillets
- butter
- very clear fish fumet
- lemon juice
- small very regular tomatoes
- Mousse d'écrevisse
- crayfish tails
- poached soft roe
- white aspic jelly
Instructions
- Flatten the sole fillets and roll them into paupiettes around small buttered wooden cylinders about 2 centimetres in diameter.
- Range the paupiettes in a buttered sauté pan, join underneath, and poach them with very clear fish fumet and lemon juice so that they come out very white.
- Let them cool and withdraw the pieces of wood, so that each paupiette forms a kind of ring.
- Take as many small, very regular tomatoes as there are paupiettes; cut them at a third of their height, then empty and peel them.
- Set a paupiette upright in each tomato.
- Add diced crayfish tails to Mousse d'écrevisse and fill the middle of each paupiette with it.
- Cut rounds from poached, cold soft roe with a round cutter and place one on the Mousse of each paupiette.
- Set a shelled crayfish tail on each round of soft roe.
- Arrange the tomatoes in a ring on a dish, garnish the middle with chopped white jelly and border the dish with croûtons of the same jelly cut into regular rectangles.