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Shirred Eggs Macédoine

Eggs baked in individual dishes over a creamy sauce of diced vegetables.

Method

Steps

  1. Step 1

    Heat one tablespoon butter and one tablespoon flour, stirring for half a minute.

  2. Step 2

    Add 178 mL milk and stir until boiling.

  3. Step 3

    Use canned macédoine of diced carrots, white turnips, peas and green beans. Blanch 237 mL of the drained vegetables in boiling water for two minutes, then drain thoroughly.

  4. Step 4

    Add the vegetables to the sauce with three saltspoons salt, half a saltspoon grated nutmeg and two saltspoons white pepper.

  5. Step 5

    Mix and boil for six minutes.

  6. Step 6

    Divide the vegetable sauce among six ovenproof dishes and crack two fresh eggs into each.

  7. Step 7

    Share half a teaspoon salt and two saltspoons white pepper evenly over the eggs.

  8. Step 8

    Bake in a preheated 175 °C conventional oven, checking after three minutes, until the whites and yolks are firmly set and the eggs reach 74 °C. Serve hot.

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