Wrapped Chicken with Wild Mushrooms
Ingredients for 4 portions:
- 100g Cocktail of 6 Wild Mushrooms
- 225g Butter
- 2 Shallots Finely Chopped
- 8 Large Leaves Savoy Cabbage
- 8 Slices Pancetta (bacon)
- 20g Truffle Paste
- 300ml Chicken Stock
- 1 Glass White Wine
- 4 Chicken Breasts
- Salt & Pepper To Taste
Preheat oven to a high heat. Generously butter a roasting dish.
Blanch the cabbage leaves, strain and spread out for use, on buttered silver foil
squares. Place 2 slices of pancetta slightly overlapping to cover the green
leaves, spread the truffle paste on each then add a knob of butter in the middle and place the chicken on top. Salt and pepper to taste. Carefully fold the greens over the chicken to wrap and roll the foil around to
hold. Place in the oven and bake for approximately 20 minutes.
Pan fry the shallots until golden in a little butter, add the stock, white wine and the cocktail of wild
mushrooms. Boil and reduce down to make the sauce. Add a little cream if you so
desire.
Remove the chicken breasts from the oven, slice diagonally. Pour a little of the wild mushroom sauce on a plate and place the chicken on top.
Serve at once.
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John Dory with Wild Mushrooms
Ingredients for 4 portions:
- 400g Cocktail of 6 Wild Mushrooms
- 8 John Dory Fillets (approx.225g for 2)
- 1/2 Lemon Juice
- 85g Butter
- 1 Garlic Clove Chopped
- Flat Leaf Parsley Chopped
- 28g Pine Nuts Slightly Toasted
- 4 Tbs Flour
- 40ml Tornatore Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 5g Pinch of Fish Fumet
- Salt & Pepper To Taste
Season the flour and coat the fillets of John Dory (St. Pierre fish)
lightly.
Mix the extra virgin olive oil with pinch of fish fumet and some freshly ground black pepper.
Brush some of the oil on a baking tin and place the fillets on top, brush the fillets and place under a grill. Carefully remove after a few minutes and turn the fillets over delicately, brush with more oil and place under a grill again to finish cooking and make a crispy brown
skin. Meanwhile saute’ the mushrooms in the garlic, butter, chopped parsley, lemon juice, salt and
pepper.
Place 2 of the fillets on a plate, pour a little of the wild mushrooms on top and sprinkle some pine
nuts. Serve at once.
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