Genoese-Style Savory Pudding
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 150 g milk-fed veal
- 130 g chicken breast
- 50 g prosciutto (fat and lean)
- 30 g butter
- 20 g grated Parmesan
- 3 eggs
- nutmeg
- 1 pinch salt
- bread crumb soaked in milk
- 3 spoonfuls balsamella (bechamel) per recipe No. 137
- 1 chicken liver
Instructions
- Chop the veal, chicken breast and prosciutto, then pound in a mortar with the butter, Parmesan and milk-soaked bread crumb; pass through a sieve.
- Mix the sieved paste with three spoonfuls of thick balsamella (bechamel, No. 137), the eggs and nutmeg.
- Pour into a buttered, paper-lined tin mold and cook in a bain-marie.
- Unmold, remove the paper, and top with a sauce of chopped chicken liver cooked in gravy. Serve hot.