Piroguis aux Truffes (Truffle Piroguis)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- truffles
- sauce Béchamel
- Blinis
- farce (forcemeat)
- egg and very fine breadcrumb
- butter
Instructions
- Cut medium cooked truffles into rounds one centimetre thick.
- Coat the rounds with reduced sauce Béchamel and let them cool.
- Enclose each between two rounds of Blinis, sealing them well with a little forcemeat.
- Crumb à l'anglaise with very fine breadcrumb.
- Fry in clarified butter, timed so that the Piroguis are ready just at the moment of serving.