Recipe with Montlouis wine

 

Eel "à la maraîchère" with Montlouis wine

Ingrédients for 4 persons :

4 medium eels

Mince of few pinches of :

8 onions

- parsley

- sage

- savoury

- mint

500 gr of sorrel

200 gr of celery

500 gr of watercress

1 bottle of  Montlouis

salt

5 yolks

pepper

100 gr of cream

butter

fish aroma

 

Making :

Skin the eels, cut them into pieces of about 5 cm.

Peel the onions and cut them and the celery into small cubes, cut up the sorrel and the cress into small strips.

Fry the eels with butter in a frying pan, add the onions, wait until they become tinted.

Cover with the Montlouis wine and the fish aroma.

Season with salt and pepper, add the sorrel, the cress, the parsley, the sage, the savoury and the mint.

Boil for 15 minutes.

After decanting, get the pieces of eel out.

Thicken the sauce with the yolks and a little fresh cream.

Then, pour it back on the pieces of eel, check the seasoning and adjust if necessary.

How to serve :

Garnish a dish taking special care to coat the pieces of eel and of course,

SERVE WITH A BOTTLE OF MONTLOUIS