Eggs Comtoise

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

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

Times:

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

Step by step recipe

1	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.
2	Slice the rest of the potatoes.
3	Pan-fry the potato slices on both sides in a little olive oil, then salt and set aside and keep hot.
4	Fry the potato nests until browned all over. Heat 250 g cancoillotte in the microwave or in a bain-marie.
5	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.
6	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.

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