Duckling à la Sévillane (Seville Style)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Duckling
- Farce gratin
- Mousseline forcemeat
- Tomato purée
- Raw foie gras
- A good fond
- Sauce Chaud-froid with Sherry
- Jelly
- Large Spanish olives
- Foie gras purée
Instructions
- Bone the breast of the duckling.
- Garnish it with a forcemeat made of 100 grammes of farce gratin, as much mousseline forcemeat, a décilitre of very reduced tomato purée and 100 grammes of raw foie gras cut into large dice.
- Truss the duckling, wrap it in a muslin and poach it for an hour in a good fond.
- After cooking, tighten the muslin and let the bird cool in the cooking liquor.
- Unwrap it, remove the breast, cut it into aiguillettes and put them back in place on the forcemeat.
- Coat the piece with a sauce Chaud-froid with Sherry and glaze it with jelly.
- Dress it in an oval bowl, or in a square deep dish whose bottom is garnished with a layer of set jelly.
- Surround the piece with large stoned Spanish olives stuffed with foie gras purée, and half-cover them with jelly.