Either the day before, or 2 hours before:
1- In a saucepan with a little butter melt your pumpkin cubes then add 20cl of poultry stock and your 20cl of liquid cream season with salt and pepper and a grating of nutmeg.
Gentle cooking covered for 15 minutes.
2- Meanwhile, in a small sauté pan put a nice knob of butter and a hint of oil when it is almost hazelnut colored cook your salted and peppered veal tenderloins 5 minutes on each side remove your sauté pan from the heat, cover and let rest thus for 10 minutes.
3- This is the moment to blend your pumpkin coulis which should be like a cream, then keep it warm in a bain-marie.
4- In the pan with a little fat sauté your smoked duck breast cubes drain them on absorbent paper being sure to keep this pan as we will reuse it.
5- Heat this pan again then when it is very hot add the pumpkin coulis stir well with a whisk so the flavor of the smoke will enter into osmosis with that of the pumpkin, let reduce for 3 minutes then strain through a chinois (sieve) and keep warm.
6- Drain your beans, rinse them in cold water then with the tip of a knife push a caper into each one (long to prepare but super good on the palate).
7- Remove your veal tenderloins and place them on a small plate, then heat the sauté pan where the tenderloins rendered their juice add the rest of the poultry stock, let reduce by half then off the heat put your beans flat in this juice bring back to a boil on the heat then remove and cover.
There you go now you take care of plating on well-heated plates:
the tenderloin in the center topped with a pinch of fleur de sel and cracked pepper the beans placed in a star pattern the pumpkin coulis around
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