Poularde à l'Élysée (Poached Fattened Pullet with Foie Gras and Truffle Stuffing)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 poularde
- 200 grammes farce Mousseline
- 125 grammes foie gras
- 125 grammes truffles
- truffle (for contising the fillets)
- 10 whole truffles
- quenelles
- mushrooms
- cockscombs
- cocks' kidneys
- sauce Suprême
Instructions
- Combine the 200 grammes of farce Mousseline with the 125 grammes of foie gras and the 125 grammes of truffles, cut in dice, and stuff the poularde with it.
- Contise the fillets with truffle.
- Poach the poularde.
- Dress it and set 5 whole truffles along each side of the piece.
- Bind a garnish of quenelles, mushrooms, cockscombs and kidneys with sauce Suprême and place it at each end.
- Serve a sauce-boat of sauce Suprême separately.