Vol-au-vent (ragout)
Number of people this recipe serves: 6
- 250 g mushrooms
- 500 g chickenfilet or beef
- 600 ml chicken or beef stock
- 1/2 tbsp lemonjuice
- Fresh parsley
- 50g Butter
- 70g flour
- 10 ml cooking cream
- White and/or black pepper
- Salt
- (optional; usually when using chicken): 250g minced veal
- (optional) 1 eggyoke
- (optional) 2 tbsp breadcrumbs
For the meat:
- Cut the meat in small cubes (about 2cm²)
- Start cooking the stock, cook the beef/chicken.
- Note: that with beef this will need about 2 hours, so its smart to prepare this beforehand). The matter a fact, you can just get water, and prepare a stock using the meat and adding some basic vegetables you would normally use for stock, and use that stock for this dish.
- When done, seperate the meat from the vegetables and the stock. We wont need the vegetables from the stock for this dish. They can always be used in creative ways ;)
For the Meatballs (optional):
- Mix the minced veal with the eggyoke and the breadcrumbs.
- Roll small balls and poach these in the chickenstock.
- When done, keep them apart.
Prepare the shrooms:
- Sauté the mushrooms shortly in butter, making sure that most internal moisture is vaporized.
- Quench with lemon juice.
For the bechamelsauce:
- Make sure the stock is on a reasonable tempurature (nice and hot, else the mixture will cool to abrubtly)
- Melt the butter, add the flower and mix properly with a wooden spoon.
- Don't forget to stir every now and again. Wait until the flour is done, which you will notice by smelling somewhat of a cookie-smell.
- Take the pan of the fire. = Gently and gradually add the stock one ladle at a time, mixing it into the flower butter mixture.
- If all stock is mixed in, put it back on the fire and bring it to a boil. Keep mixing it with a whisk until you have a nice and smooth sauce.
- Season with pepper and salt.
Final Preparation:
- Having the bechamelsauce from the previous step, we add the meat, the mushrooms and optionally the veal meatballs.
- Finely chop the parsley and add it aswell.
- Optionally season with pepper, salt, and lemonjuice.