Sole à la Normande
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- sole
- Fumet de Poisson
- mushroom cooking liquor
- mussels
- shrimp tails
- 4 oysters
- 4 fine mushroom caps
- Sauce Normande
- pale meat glaze
- 6 slices of truffle
- 6 small lozenge-shaped croûtons
- clarified butter
- 4 gudgeons
- 4 medium crayfish
Instructions
- Poach the sole with fish fumet and mushroom cooking liquor.
- Drain the sole and arrange it on the serving dish.
- Surround it with poached and bearded mussels and shrimp tails.
- Set 4 poached oysters and 4 fine turned mushroom caps in a line along the middle of the sole, alternating them.
- Pass the sole through the oven for a few moments, then tilt the dish to eliminate all liquid.
- Mask the sole and its garnish with Sauce Normande.
- With a brush, draw a little garland of pale meat glaze on the sauce.
- Set 6 slices of truffle in a line, 3 on each side of the central garnish, alternating them with 6 small lozenge-shaped croûtons fried in clarified butter.
- Fry 4 gudgeons, breaded en manchon, at the last moment, and arrange them around the dish with 4 medium trussed crayfish.