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Eggs Comtoise

Name: Eggs Comtoise
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 700 g cooked potatoes; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 4 egg yolks; 250 g cancoillotte; Salt; Pepper

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.

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Duration

40 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: January 17^th 2016

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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 for this recipe

Preparation

20 min.

Cooking

20 min.

All in all

40 min.

Preparation 20 min.

Cooking 20 min.

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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.

Keeping: Should be eaten immediately.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	6 g RDI=9 %	12 g RDI=5 %	8 g RDI=12 %	153 kcal RDI=8 %	644 kJ RDI=8 %
Per person	16 g RDI=26 %	33 g RDI=13 %	24 g RDI=33 %	419 kcal RDI=21 %	1,756 kJ RDI=21 %
Whole recipe	67 g RDI=103 %	135 g RDI=51 %	96 g RDI=132 %	1,677 kcal RDI=84 %	7,023 kJ RDI=84 %