Poulet de Grains à la Belle-Meunière (Spring Chicken Belle-Meunière)

Ingredients

• 1 spring chicken
• 4 chicken livers
• 100 grammes raw mushrooms
• butter
• 5 or 6 fine slices of truffle
• 150 grammes butter
• 4 rectangles breast bacon
• 100 grammes raw mushrooms
• 2 spoonfuls jus de veau (veal gravy)

Instructions

1. Lightly sauté the escaloped chicken livers and the roughly chopped raw mushrooms in butter, and stuff the chicken with them.
2. Slip 5 or 6 fine slices of truffle under the skin of the breast and truss the chicken as for an Entrée.
3. Colour the chicken in butter.
4. Put it in a cocotte with the 150 grammes of butter, the rectangles of blanched breast bacon and the quartered raw mushrooms sautéed in butter beforehand.
5. Cook in the oven, covered.
6. Add 2 spoonfuls of jus de veau at the last moment and serve just as it is.