Recipe: St Jacques au Meursault and Sorrel

Name: St Jacques au Meursault and Sorrel
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 95 min
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: St jacques au Meursault for 2 gourmands:; 10 whole scallops unshelled; 2 grey shallots; 5 large closed button mushrooms; 1/2 lemon (for juice); 4 egg yolks; 2 dl Meursault wine; 2 dl heavy cream; 1.5 dl fish stock; 1.75 oz (50 g) cleaned sorrel leaves; 2.1 oz (60 g) butter; 0.7 oz (20 g) wheat flour

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Recipe St Jacques au Meursault and Sorrel - Chef recipe — Photo: ivan couet aftouch-cuisine

Prep 45 min

Cook 50 min

Total 1h35

Ingredients

St jacques au Meursault for 2 gourmands:
10 whole scallops unshelled
2 grey shallots
5 large closed button mushrooms
1/2 lemon (for juice)
4 egg yolks
2 dl Meursault wine
2 dl heavy cream
1.5 dl fish stock
1.75 oz (50 g) cleaned sorrel leaves
2.1 oz (60 g) butter
0.7 oz (20 g) wheat flour

Step-by-step directions

For an exceptional recipe

(created with the help of Chef Patrick),

1 Prepare yourself a fish stock with well-cleaned trimmings, rid of their blood, from flat fish (turbot, sole) and John Dory and other usual ingredients (do not salt). Add the beards of the scallops, well cleaned to remove sand and let cook a bit longer (skim often).

2 Keep the 6 most beautiful scallop meat whole and cut the others (with the coral if you like, it adds color) into mirepoix. Also cut the mushrooms into mirepoix as if preparing a duxelles (add lemon juice).

3 Butter a small saucepan, place the finely sliced shallots, then the mushrooms then the scallop mirepoix. Moisten with the fish stock.

Chef Patrick's Comment

You understand it's an exceptional recipe that will surely find its place on your tables during the holidays. You can also, once you have melted the sorrel, cut the large cooked scallops in half and make small sorrel-burgers from them. If you have many guests for a festive meal, prepare the dish ready to gratinate and mix the sabayon with the sauce at the last moment, you will place it in the oven on grill setting and you're done. We're just waiting for a nice photo to share.