Tomatoes Monégasque Style
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Very small tomatoes
- Canned or fresh tuna, minced
- Hard-boiled eggs, chopped
- Onion, finely minced
- Parsley, finely chopped
- Chervil, finely chopped
- Tarragon, finely chopped
- Mayonnaise sauce (mother sauce / sauce mère)
- Curly parsley leaves
Instructions
- Hollow out very small tomatoes and marinate them internally. Prepare a dome-shaped filling by combining minced tuna, chopped hard-boiled eggs, minced onion, and finely chopped parsley, chervil, and tarragon. Bind this mixture with mayonnaise sauce until cohesive. Fill each marinated tomato with this preparation, mounding it into a dome shape. Arrange the filled tomatoes on a serving dish and garnish around them with curly parsley leaves.