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Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,rec.food.recipes
From: arielle@bonkers.taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: COLLECTION: Vol au vent
Message-ID: <CunDMJ.5Iy@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <ynnuf.08xl@yetti.wanganui.gen.nz>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 21:42:19 GMT
No recipe for the first one, but cook shrimp, mussels, asparagus tips and
chopped sweet red pepper and add to a rich fish sauce (like a veloute).
Some more with recipes:
Chicken Vol-au-vent
3 lb (1 1/2 kg) chicken, with giblets
1 leek, trimmed
1 carrot
1 medium sized onion
2 bay leaves
2 whole cloves
1 tablespoon (15 ml) salt
pepper
3 pairs sweetbreads, soaked, membranes removed
10 ounces (300 g) fresh button mushrooms
1 tablespoon (15 ml) strined fresh lemon juice
10 tablespoons (150 ml) butter
1 1/4 cups (300 ml) flour
1 1/2 cups (375 ml) heavy cream
6 fully baked 6-inch (15 cm) vol-au-vent cases (I take it you already know
how to make these)
Put the chicken in a pot with the giblets and cover with cold water. Bring
to a boil over medium heat and skim the surface. Tie the leek and carrot
together; cut slits in the onion and stick the bay leaves through them,
then stud the onion with the cloves. Add the leek, carrot and onion to the
pot. Season with salt and pepper. Reduce the heat to low, cover and cook
for 30 minutes. Add the sweetbreads and continue cooking for 30 more
minutes, or until chicken is tender.
Cook the mushrooms in 1/2 cup (125 ml) water and the lemon juice for 5
minutes; drain, reserving cooking liquid. In a saucepan, melt the butter,
add the flour and cook roux over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring
constantly with a wooden spatula. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
Remove the chicken and sweetbreads from their pot and cool. Return the
liquid to heat and boil it, uncovered over high heat to reduce it to about
1 quart (1 liter); strain it into the roux. Beat this sauce until smooth
and simmer for 30 minutes.
Warm the vol-au-vent cases in a preheated 300F (150C) oven for 10 minutes.
Skin and bone the chicken, then cut the chicken meat, sweetbreads and
mushrooms into 1/2 inch (1 cm) dice.
Stir the cream into the sauce and simmer it slowly, uncover, until it
is reduced and thickened. If the sauce becomes too thick, thin it with
some of the mushroom cooking liquid. Strain the sauce through a fine
sieve into a pan and add the diced chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms.
Bring to a boil and adjust seasoning. Spoon into vol-au-vent cases,
passing any leftover separately from a sauceboat.
Turbot Vol-au-vent
1/2 pound (1/4 kg) turbot fillts, skinned and cut into small pieces
1 tablespoon (15 ml) butter
2 teaspoons (10 ml) fresh lemon juice
1 to 2 tablespoons (15 to 30 ml) water
6 fully baked 6 inch (15 cm) vol-au-vent cases
1 1/4 cups (300 ml) hollandaise sauce
1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) paprika
Place the turbot in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of the butter,
the lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of water. Cook over very low heat for
about 15 minutes, or until the fish is cooked through.
Warm the vol-au-vent cases in a preheated 250F (130C) oven. Remove any
bones from the fish and corasely flake the flesh. Place the vol-au-vent
cases on a warmed platter and fill them with the flaked fish. Flavour
the hollandaise sauce with paprika and pour it over the fish.
Vol-au-vent with Bay Scallops
1 cup (1/4 liter) fish stock
1/2 cup (125 ml) dry vermouth
1/2 cup (125 ml) heavy cream
1 1/2 tablespoons (22 1/2 ml) butter
1 pound (1/2 kg) bay scallops
3 tablespoons (45 ml) fresh chervil leaves
coarse salt
freshly ground pepper
6 fully baked 6 inch (15 cm) vol-au-vent cases
Place the fish stock and vermouth in a 1 quart (1 liter) saucepan. Bring
to a boil and reduce to a glaze -- this will take about 20 minutes. Add
the cream. Stir and cook until fairly thick -- about 10 minutes.
Over moderately high heat, melt the butter in a skillet. When butter is
foamy, add the scallops and cook just until opaque -- about 2 minutes.
Remove the scallops to a dish and keep warm. Pour the liquid from the
skillet into the saucepan with the cream sauce. Cook until sauce is
reduced to its original thickness. Add 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of the
chervil, the scallops and salt and pepper to taste.
Divide scallop mixture among the cases. Top with remaining chervil and
freshly ground pepper.