Recipe: Baked Pancakes Picarde Style

Name: Ficelle Picarde
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4 portions
Ingredients: Ficelle picarde pour 4 personnes :4 tranches de bon jambon blanc coupées à l'os2 cervelles de veau cuites et bien épluchées8 petites crêpes salées100 g d'échalotes grises ciselées (finement hachées)400 g de champignons de paris épluchés et taillés en duxelles (très fins)100 g de bon beurre4 dl de crème liquide(30%°20 g de farine150 g de gruyère fraichement râpésel poivre et une pointe de muscade

By chef patrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9/5 (14 reviews) Other dishes

Prep 30 min

Cook 30 min

Total 1h

Servings 4 serv.

Voici la recette classique du départ de cette célèbre ficelle picarde puis les temps ont changé et les cervelles de veau devenues chères alors furent peu à peu supprimées

Ingredients for 4 servings

Baked Pancakes recipe for 4 people :

4 slices of cooked ham
2 veal brain, cooked and skinned
8 salted pancakes
100g finely chopped shallots
400g finely chopped button mushrooms
100g butter
4 dl double cream
20g plain flour
150g grated Gruyère cheese

salt and freshly ground peppera pinch nutmeg

Step-by-step directions

1- Sweat off the shallot for 5 minutes with butter. Then, add the flour and allow to cook for another 5 minutes. Pour in the cream and cook until thickened a little bit. Add the mushrooms, season well and cook for 5 more minutes.

2- Dice up the ham and brain and add them to the sauce. Season with pepper and nutmeg.

3- Slowly cook the mixture for 10 minutes.

4- Place your pancakes on a clean surface. Place some ham and mushroom mixture in each pancakes. Then roll them up.

5- Start your oven at 210'C (410'F).

6- Place your pancakes in a shallow oven dish and pour the rest of the sauce on the top and sprinkle the cheese, all over, to finish. Bake for 10 minutes.

Serve straight out of the oven.

This dish is known as "ficelle Picarde"-Picarde's string- because of the shape given to the pancakes.

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