Fillets of Sole à la Chevalière
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- sole fillets
- stuffed shells of large crayfish
- white wine
- butter
- spiny lobster tail
- sauce Homard
- sauce au Vin blanc
- small puff-pastry palmettes
Instructions
- Fold the fillets and slip each one, pointed end first, into a stuffed shell of a large crayfish.
- Poach them with white wine and butter.
- Bind the julienne of spiny lobster tail, mushrooms and truffles with a little sauce Homard and arrange it in a pyramid in the middle of the serving dish.
- Stand the fillets upright around the pyramid, crayfish shells uppermost.
- Surround them with a ribbon of sauce au Vin blanc.
- Edge the dish with small puff-pastry palmettes baked blind.