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Cocotte eggs with Comté

A light delicious and quickly prepared dish, an easy and elegant answer to the frequent question "what are we going to eat this evening?". Here is version with Comté (a famous cheese from eastern France, like gruyère, but much better), but it can be made prepared many different ways.

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 12 people, you will need:

1 12 eggs
2 300 ml liquid cream
3 250 g small pieces of bacon
4 4 tablespoons vinegar
5 100 g Comté cheese
6 2 knobs butter
7 a little chives
8 2 tablespoons oil
9 fine (or table) salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 1,360 grams

Change those ingredients for: 2 people 3 people 6 people 12 people 18 people

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
35 min.	25 min.	1 hour

Keeping: Once cooked, a few minutes.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #1

Preheat the oven to 180°C or 356°F, and put in the dripping tray. When it's hot, pour into the dripping tray enough hot water to give about 1 cm or ½ inch depth.

Fry 250 g small pieces of bacon in a pan with 2 tablespoons oil. When they are well cooked, remove the excess fat and add 4 tablespoons vinegar to the frying pan. The vinegar is to bring a small note of acidity, and compensate to some extent for the fat of the bacon.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #2

Melt 2 knobs butter in a ramekin (in microwave oven for example), and brush the bottom of the other 5 ramekins with it.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #3

Put a good tablespoon of thinly sliced bacon in each ramekin.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #4

Grate some Comté onto it.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #5

Break an egg over.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #6

Add 2 teaspoons of liquid cream.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #7

Salt and pepper.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #8

Chop some chives finely on top.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #9

If you wish to improve the appearence, you can push the egg yolk to the centre of the ramekin and distribute the herbs around it.

Stage 10 - 15 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté : Photo of step #10

Put the ramekins into the dripping tray of hot water in the oven. Cook until the egg white is completely cooked (opaque), about 15 minutes.

Eat as soon as possible, because eggs continue to cook even out of the oven.

Remarks

A good cocotte egg should have the white completely cooked (opaque) and the yolk still liquid, and that's not very easy. A common mistake is to produce a raw egg (white not cooked) or hard (egg yolk cooked). Here are some tips for success:

Eggs must be at room temperature; too cold and they won't cook properly
Watch the cooking carefully through a transparent ramekin
If you have an electronic thermometer, stop cooking when inside the egg white reaches 75°C or 167°F

Here are some variations on the recipe :

Parmesan cheese and walnuts
Diced chicken and mushrooms
Leeks
Roquefort
Etc...

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,040 Kcal or 16,915 Kj	137 gr	18 gr	380 gr
202 %	53 %	2 %	58 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
297 Kcal or 1,243 Kj	10 gr	1 gr	28 gr
15 %	4 %	<1 %	4 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
337 Kcal or 1,411 Kj	11 gr	2 gr	32 gr
17 %	4 %	<1 %	5 %

% 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 12 people : 6.68 €
Per person : 0.56 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Layered Leek and Egg Gratin , Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds, Filo leeks and cheese tart, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Blackberry and almond fondant tart, ... All
	Small pieces of bacon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Special Cheese and Walnut Sticks, Small cheese and bacon rolls , Ramekins of duchess potatoes, Röstis, Rabbit civet, ... All
	Comté cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Two-cheese quiche, Potato gratin, Courgettes (zuchinis) , Spinach and Comté Loaf, Montlebon toast, ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sushi, Green asparagus omelette, Kouign-amann brioche, Artichoke hearts forestier , Provençal colombier for Pentecost, ... All

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