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Faisan a la Croix de Berny

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Roast
  2. Fillets
  3. Aspic

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Roast the pheasant and keep it underdone.
  2. When it is quite cold, raise its fillets and leave the legs and the wings attached to the carcass.
  3. By means of scissors, completely bone the carcass;
  4. garnish its inside with a truffled foie-gras Parfait, and cover it with a thin coat of foie-gras Mousse.
  5. Replace the fillets upon this Mousse, after having sliced them, and fill any gaps that may exist between the slices with some of the same Mousse: thus reconstructing the bird.
  6. Let the Mousse set thoroughly, and glaze with aspic jelly.
  7. Meanwhile, coat eight boned, stuffed, poached and cold larks with brown chaud-froid sauce.
  8. Decorate them with pieces of truffle and salted tongue, and glaze them with aspic jelly.
  9. Dish the pheasant on a low cushion;
  10. surround it with the larks, and garnish the gaps between the latter with chopped and very clear aspic.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board