Old Method (earlier presentation of Filets de Sole Joinville)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Sole fillets
- Crayfish claws
- Salpicon à la Joinville
- Sauce Joinville
- Truffle
- Lemon
Instructions
- Poach the fillets, keeping them very white, and stick a crayfish claw on each.
- Arrange a slightly stiff salpicon à la Joinville in a dome on the middle of the dish and cover it with sauce Joinville.
- Arrange the fillets around it in a turban, point upward.
- Place a good black slice of truffle on each fillet.
- Border the dish with thin fluted slices of lemon.