Sautéed frog legs with marsh garlic pesto green and flavorful
Ingredients for 4 servings
- 12 beautiful French frog legs
- for the pesto mix
- 2 cloves marsh garlic or fresh Lautrec garlic
- 8 young hollyhock leaves just washed, large central rib removed and sliced *
- 4 walnut kernels
- 2.8 oz (80 g) half-salt butter in softened form
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- For the rest of the recipe
- just a little flour
- half-salt butter and a little olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 12 small new potatoes from Ré, just pre-cooked for 6 minutes
- Or spinach leaves or young vine leaves
Step-by-step recipe
1 Blend the pesto ingredients thoroughly, then add the softened butter and mix just a little to incorporate it.
2 On your cutting board, season your frog legs then dust them lightly with flour.
3 In a large skillet, melt 1.1 oz (30g) of butter with a splash of olive oil, and brown your new potatoes slightly.
4 Then add your frog legs, cooking 4 minutes on each side.
5 Add the pesto and give a few turns in the pan and serve your frogs on very hot plates.
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