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Sole a La Dieppoise Recipe
Arrange the poached fish filets on a lightly buttered serving platter and surround them with the mussels and shrimp. Just before serving, cover the platter and reheat the fish for a few minutes over simmering water. Drain off any accumulated liquid before napping the fish with the following sauce:
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Ingredients
- A 2½-quart enameled saucepan
- 3 Tb butter
- 4 Tb flour
- The fish-poaching and mussel-steaming liquids combined and boiled down to 1 cup
- cup ¾milk
- 2 cup egg yolks and ½whipping cream blended in a 2-quart mixing bowl
- salt and pepper
- drops of lemon juice
- 4 to 16 Tb softened butter 6 to 8 Tb is usual
- 6 in whole cooked shrimptheir shells
- 6 slices to 12 thinof canned truffles
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Instructions
- Following the technique for sauce parisienne, cook the flour and butter slowly together until they foam and froth for 2 minutes. Off heat, beat in the hot fish cooking liquid, then the milk. Boil 1 minute. Beat the hot sauce by droplets into the yolks and cream. Return mixture to saucepan and boil, stirring, for 1 minute. Thin out with more cream if necessary, and correct seasoning. Strain. Film top of sauce with a tablespoon of melted butter if not to be served immediately.
- Just before serving the fish, bring the sauce to the simmer. Then remove it from heat and beat in the butter 1 tablespoon at a time.
- Immediately spoon the sauce over the hot fish and shellfish. Decorate with the shrimp and truffles and serve.