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Eggs Comtoise

In this recipe from eastern France, an egg yolk sits inside a potato nest with a topping of hot cancoillote cheese.

The nest is served with fried sliced potatoes.

18,3063.9/5 for 20 ratings

Last modified on: January 17^th 2016

For 4 people, you will need:

1 700 g cooked potato
2 4 tablespoons olive oil
3 4 egg yolks
4 250 g cancoillotte
5 salt
6 pepper
Total weight: 1,090 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
20 min.	20 min.	40 min.

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Should be eaten immediately.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Prepare one potato per person: hollow out the centre using a pommes parisiennes spoon or a teaspoon to create the "nest". Trim off the ends if necessary to tidy the shape.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Slice the rest of the potatoes.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Pan-fry the potato slices on both sides in a little olive oil, then salt and set aside and keep hot.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Fry the potato nests until browned all over.

Heat 250 g cancoillotte in the microwave or in a bain-marie.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Heat the plates.

Stand a nest in the centre of each hot plate and surround with the fried potato slices.

Slip an egg yolk into each nest and salt lightly.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Fill up the nests with hot cancoillote and pour a little over the potatoes. Serve immediately.

Remarks

If you don't have any cancoillote, use any other cheese you like (but preferably a soft cheese) and melt it in a little cream.

You may be surprised to see that the egg yolk is not heated beforehand, but it will heat through when in contact with the hot potato and cheese.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 11.21 €
Per person : 2.80 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Cooked potato: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, Chicken with spinach in a cream sauce , Warm salad of potatoes and purple artichokes, Gratin of purple artichokes, Salmon marinated like herring, ... All
	Cancoillotte: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Comtoise stuffed tomatoes, Comtoise tart for Seàn, Eggs Arsène, Endive gratin with cancoillotte, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Couscous, Little vegetable omelettes, Beef Wellington, Couscous, Minestrone, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crème de foie gras, Thin endive tart, Fruit crémeux, Blackcurrant, vanilla and lime verrine , Chicken breasts in a potato crust, ... All

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