Gourmet Charolais Bouchons Soissons Style flavorful and hearty
Ingredients for 6 servings
- 17.75 oz (500 g) ground beef from Charolais*
- 3 shallots finely chopped
- a handful of garden herbs finely chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon potato starch
- rice flour
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons duck fat
- The Garnish
- 1 onion sliced
- 1 red bell pepper seeded and sliced
- green bell pepper likewise
- 2 garlic cloves degerminated and chopped
- lemon thyme and a little rosemary
- 2 tablespoons good tomato concentrate
- 1 large tomato blanched and cut into large quarters
- fine salt and a little Espelette pepper
- 14 oz (400 g) Soissons beans cooked plain (from the cooperative)
- 3.5 oz (100 g) cooked penne tossed and lightly buttered
Step-by-step recipe
1 In a large salad bowl place your meat then add your herbs, your chives, your starch and your lightly beaten egg, salt and pepper then with your clean hands divide into about a dozen small meatballs which you place on a plate, in another spread your rice flour.
2 In a large sauté pan melt your duck fat when it is very hot place your meatballs which you have passed one by one in the flour then brown them on all sides then remove them to a plate.
3 In this same sauté pan in the remaining fat pour all the elements of your garnish salt and pepper with Espelette let thus sweat covered for 10 minutes then add the tomato concentrate and moisten with 1 1/2.1 qt (2 liters) of water or broth allow 20 minutes of cooking then crush it a little add your meatballs and the rendered juices and the drained Soissons beans and return to cooking for 10 minutes.
Plate on very hot plates the meatballs coated with the garnish in the center the beans around the penne lightly placed between.
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