Elle & Vire Recipes
by Sébastien Faré

Recipe Homage to veal sweetbread medallions

For
8 persons
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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
Sauteed Veal Sweetbreads
8 medallions of veal sweetbread approx. 200 g each
100 g carrots
1 onion
1 stalk celery
1 stalk Thyme
Breaded Sweetbreads
280 g flour
60 g maizena
20 g rice flour
13 g sugar
8 g fine salt
16 g baking powder
480 g cold water
200 g apanese-style breadcrumbs
200 g clarified butter
SQ fleur de sel
SQ ground black pepper
Bocage Cream
200 g rocket salad
40 g shallots
30 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% FAT
100 g Granny Smith apples, diced
40 g calvados (optional)
200 g apple juice
10 g Tarragon leaves
8 g dill
360 g Excellence Whipping Cream 35% FAT
24 g cider vinegar
SQ liquorice powder
SQ salt
SQ ground black pepper
SQ sugar
Vegetable Accompaniment
120 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% FAT
1 rutabaga
100 g mangetout
4 pepper artichoke
200 g chanterelle mushrooms
10 g oil
1/4 cauliflower
1 branche flat leafed parsley
Cromesquis
500 g calf’s head
25 g mustard
25 g traditional wholegrain mustard
50 g shallots, finely chopped
5 g tarragon leaves, chopped
SQ fleur de sel
SQ ground black pepper
50 g clarified butter
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Sauteed Veal Sweetbreads

    Soak the sweetbreads in cold water for 24 hours. Once the sweetbreads are whitened, rinse well. Place the sweetbreads with the carrot, quartered onion, celery and thyme into a pot, cover with water, and season with salt and pepper. Simmer for 20 minutes. Leave to cool in their cooking juices.
    Chef's tip

    You can replace the sweetbreads with veal grenadins and the cromesquis with Duchesse potatoes.

  2. 2

    Breaded Sweetbreads

    Add the flour, cornflour, rice flour, sugar, salt and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Mix together and add the cold water. Drain the sweetbreads, pat with a kitchen towel, and season if required. Toss the sweetbreads in this mixture and shake off any excess. Roll them in the Japanese-style breadcrumbs. Retain the remaining mixture for the garnish. Sauté the sweetbreads in the clarified butter just before serving.
  3. 3

    Bocage Cream

    Blanch the rocket in lightly salted boiling water for about ten seconds and then drain and cool immediately in iced water. Peel and chop the shallots. Sweat the shallots in the butter, add the diced apples and then flame with the Calvados (optional). Add the apple juice, tarragon and dill. Reduce by 3/4. Add the cream, reduce by about a half. Add more rocket and blend. Strain through a fine sieve and season with the cider vinegar, salt, sugar, freshly ground pepper and liquorice powder. Keep hot, but do not allow to boil to maintain a nice green colour.
  4. 4

    Vegetable Accompaniment

    Peel the rutabaga, wash and cut into four. Sauté in 20 g of butter and season with salt and pepper. Cook the mangetout on a gentle boil in salted water. Turn over the baby artichokes and use a melon baller to remove the heart, then cut into four. Sauté in 40 g of butter. Clean the girolle mushrooms and sauté in oil in a very hot frying pan. Drain, sauté in 40 g of butter, add the chopped flat parsley, then season with salt. Retrieve the cauliflower tops, sauté in the remaining butter and season with salt and pepper.
  5. 5

    Cromesquis

    Cook the calf ’s head in water seasoned with salt and pepper for about 2 hours (prick with a knife to ensure it is cooked through). Leave to cool in the cooking juices. Once the calf’s head is lukewarm, cut it into small cubes. Mix with the mustards, finely chopped shallots, torn tarragon leaves, and season well with salt and pepper. Pour into a terrine and leave to set overnight in the fridge. Cut into large cubes and bread as you did the sweetbreads using the leftover dough and breadcrumbs. Cook in very hot clarified butter.
  6. 6

    Assembly

    Assemble by starting with the sauce, then the sweetbread, garnish and finish with the decoration. Season with a little salt and freshly ground pepper.
  7. 7

    Decoration

    Pansy blossoms
    Lemon Cress
    Tarragon leaves

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