The sauce: reduce chicken stock with Porto. Add a spoonful
of tomato paste. Reduce further and bind with starch.
Shallot puree: Chop shallots and saute them in butter with
chopped parsley and minced garlic. Puree them with a little
veal stock in the blender. Season to taste with salt and
pepper. Allow to evaporate on low heat to make the puree
firmer.
ingredients - info
chicken stock
red Porto
tomato puree
starch
shallots
butter
parsley
garlic
sweet potatoes
cream
Mashed sweet potato: make it like a classic mashed
potatoes with butter, cream, nutmeg, egg yolk, pepper and
salt, but use sweet potatoes.
Steam broccoli florets. Let the quail fillets get color in a pan
with butter. Add a splash of water and simmer, covered, for a
few more minutes over low heat.
On a narrow oblong dinner plate: brush a swipe of balsamic
on the dinner plate and spoon a spoonful of balsamic pearls
into the center of it. Push out a ring of shallot puree with next
to it a smaller ring of sweet potato puree. Garnish with a
broccoli floret and a tuft of leek shoots. Place the one quail
fillets on the other side of the plate and half-overglaze with
sauce. Serve with croquettes on a separate plate.
quail with shallot puree and port sauce
nutmeg
salt and pepper
eggs
veal stock
broccoli
quail fillets without skin
balsamic cream
balsamic pearls
leek dumplings
potato croquettes