Straight from coasts of Normandy, sole fillets that melt in your
mouth, accompanied by
shrimps and mussels in a cream sauce.
Ingredients (for
6 people)
6 filleted
soles
40 cl fish fumet
50 g butter
1 kg mussels
1 glass cider
500 g small button
mushrooms
1 lemon
350 g shelled red
shrimps
1 egg yolks
25 cl double cream
salt
pepper
Procedure
Pour in the fumet in a saucepan and heat
till it boils. Poach the sole fillets in the fumet for ten minutes.
Butter a gratin dish. Place the fillets in it, after you have drained them.
Put in a pot, washed and scraped mussels and
pour in the cider. Heat over strong heat until the mussels have opened.
Wash and chop the mushrooms. Sprinkle them
with lemon juice, then, saute them in a buttered pan. Drain
them and put them in the gratin dish. Remove the shells from the
mussels and add them to the shrimp.
Mix the double cream with egg yolks in a
bowl. Add two tablespoons of fumet.
Pour this sauce in the gratin dish. Salt
and pepper. Add the rest of the butter, cut in pieces and put in the
oven at 180°C for ten minutes.