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Lamb~ Artichoke & Roasted Potato Salad Recipe


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Ingredients
  • 1 sm Egg yolk
  • 1 pn Quatre-epices
  • 4 Rashers bacon
  • 200 g Pate de foie
  • 200 g Minced pork or chicken
  • 8 Lamb Kidneys
  • Stephen Ceideburg
  • 100 ml Creme fraiche
  • 100 ml Brandy

Directions
  • Step #1 This is a slightly simplified version of a recipe from the bible of French cookery, Cuisine et vins de France, by Curnonsky, the French gastronome & bon viveur born in 1872.
  • Step #2 Skin 8 lambs' kidneys, split them in half & core, keeping the halves in pairs.
  • Step #3 Mix 200 g minced pork or chicken with 1 small egg yolk, cloves, & a pinch of quatre-epices (nutmeg, cinnamon & pepper).
  • Step #4 Have ready 200 g pate de foie.
  • Step #5 Remove rinds from 4 rashers of bacon & cut them in half.
  • Step #6 Take each pair of kidney halves & put a thick layer (about 1 cm) of the mince mixture on the inside of one half & a thick layer of the pate de foie on the other.
  • Step #7 Sandwich the stuffed halves together carefully, wrap in half a bacon rasher & secure with one or more toothpicks.
  • Step #8 Lay the bacon & kidney parcels in a lightly oiled dish which can go from oven to top of the stove & bake in a very hot oven for 10-20 mins or until cooked through.
  • Step #9 Transfer the parcels to a heated serving dish & put the baking dish on a hot plate.
  • Step #10 Deglaze the dish With 100 mL brandy & boil hard to reduce.
  • Step #11 Thicken with 100 mL creme fraiche or sour cream (or use evaporated skim milk mixed with a little cornflour), taste & Spice up if necessary & pour over the kidneys.
  • Step #12 Serve.
  • Step #13 Posted by Stephen Ceideburg From an article by Meryl Constance in The Sydney Morning Herald, 6/22/93.
  • Step #14 Courtesy Mark Herron.
  • Step #15 --.
  • Enjoy the LAMB~ ARTICHOKE & ROASTED POTATO SALAD recipe

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