Morel-Stuffed Chicken Legs with Mercière Sauce and Scented Rice Recipe
Flavors of Lyon
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Prep. time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes + time for the broth
Difficulty: Easy
Chef's Note
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- 4 farm-raised Chicken legs
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) veal neck or ground veal
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) chicken breast
- 50 g (2 oz.) dried Morels
- 250 ml (1 cup) chicken stock
- 600 ml (2 1/2 cups) heavy cream
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) scented rice
- 25 g (2 tbsp.) butter
- Port, salt and pepper
Method
- Soak the morels.
- Bone the chicken legs; use the bones to make a chicken stock (or use canned or dehydrated chicken stock);
- grind the veal neck and chicken breast; season with salt and pepper.
- to this stuffing add 50 ml (3 tbsp.) cream and a splash of Port;
- stuff the chicken legs, placing 2 whole morels in each leg; season with salt and pepper. The stuffing takes the place of the bone.
- wrap the legs individually in plastic wrap.
- Cook the rice.
- Steam the legs for 15 minutes in a steamer or couscous maker.
Making the sauce
- Reduce the chicken stock and cream (550 ml / 2 1/4 cups); correct the seasoning.
- Add the remaining morels and purée everything.
- Add some butter to the rice and mold it in the center of each plate.
- Place a chicken leg on the plate and spoon on some of the sauce.
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