Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 897
Built upon: No. 2255Riz Pilaff
897—Filets de Soles en Pilaw à la Levantine
Cut the fillets into collops, and toss these in butter. Prepare some pilaff rice after the usual recipe (No. 2255, Riz Pilaff), and add thereto one oz. of capsicum cut into dice.
Also toss in butter one and one-half oz. of egg-plant, cut into dice and seasoned, and put these with the fillets of sole. Mould the rice into a border round the dish; put the fillets and the egg-plant in the middle, and coat the two with curry sauce without letting the latter touch the rice.
N.B.—In the case of pilaff rice with fillets of sole, the rice should border the dish, and the fillets of sole, tossed in butter, should be laid in the middle and coated with brown butter.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 897, p. 301. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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