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Smoked eggs

This sophisticated, smoky flavoured starter consists of an egg yolk, heated in a bain-marie and a smoked cream mousse with a scattering of chives, served with a buttered-toast "soldier".

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Last modified on: March 15^th 2015

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For 4 eggs, you will need:

1 50 g Morteau sausage
2 100 ml liquid cream
3 4 egg yolks
4 2 slices bread
5 30 g butter
Total weight: 360 grams

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Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
15 min.	12 hours	15 min.	12 hours 30 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Prepare the smoked mousse

The day before serving, dice 50 g Morteau sausage fairly small.

Take the eggs out of the fridge, if that is where you keep them.

Stage 2 - 12 hours

Put the diced sausage into a saucepan with 100 ml liquid cream, salt lightly and bring to the boil.

As soon as it boils, cover and leave to infuse overnight.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Next day, pour the cream into a cream whipper through a fine strainer.

You can keep the diced sausage for another dish.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Lightly pepper the cream and insert a gas canister into the cream whipper.

Shake the whipper vigorously and put to wait in the fridge.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Heat the egg yolks

Put each egg yolk into an individual verrine (the small plastic "glasses" for aperitif snacks are ideal) or something of similar size.

Stage 6 - 7 min.

Bring a pan of water to the boil, take off the heat and lower in the glasses with the egg yolks. Ideally, they should float to heat the yolks through gently.

If you have an electronic thermometer, the ideal temperature for the yolks is 140°F (60°C). If not, leave for 7 minutes. You can also watch the small amount of egg white left around the yolk. When it turns opaque, the yolk will have reached the right temperature.

This is important because the yolk must not cook; it should stay liquid, not turn hard.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Prepare the toast fingers

While the egg yolks are heating through, remove the crusts from 2 slices bread, butter on both sides (preferably with lightly salted butter) and either fry, grill or cook in the oven until browned.

Stage 8 - 2 min.

When browned, cut into fingers (or "soldiers") with a serrated knife and leave in the pan off the heat to keep hot.

Stage 9 - 1 min.

Assemble the smoked eggs

Take the glasses out of the water and dry with a tea towel.

Sprinkle a pinch of chopped chives onto the egg yolk.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Squirt the smoked cream on top and garnish with more chives.

Stage 11 - 2 min.

Finish with a finger of toast.

Serve immediately with the spare toast fingers on a small plate.

Remarks

If you don't have Morteau sausage, you can use another smoked variety, or even smoked bacon at a push.

Keeping

Should be eaten immediately once plated up.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
977 Kcal or 4,091 Kj	31 gr	69 gr	96 gr
49 %	12 %	7 %	15 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
271 Kcal or 1,135 Kj	9 gr	19 gr	27 gr
14 %	3 %	2 %	4 %

Per eggs
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
244 Kcal or 1,022 Kj	8 gr	17 gr	24 gr
12 %	3 %	2 %	4 %

% 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 eggs : 1.56 €
Per eggs : 0.39 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Creamy "terre et mer" pots, Eggs "en cocotte" with spinach, Quiche filling mixture, Pear and chocolate tart with a hint of mint, Chilli langoustines, ... All
	Morteau sausage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Winegrowers' sausage casserole, Franche-Comté sticks, Express sauerkraut, Sausage in brioche, Cured Pork Belly With Lentils, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sorrel omelette, Brioche dough, Spinach on toast with bechamel, Diamond biscuits, Soft apple cookies, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio ice cream, Crusty cockle tart, Chaud-froid of grapefruit, pineapple and lime custard , Scallops with crunchy vegetables and wine sabayon, Eggs Comtoise, ... All

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