Growers of the
"Périgord Black Truffle"
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Growers of the "Périgord Black Truffle"
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Périgord
black truffles - Tuber melanosporum Brouillade
de truffes (scrambled
eggs with truffles)
It is certainly one of the best truffle recipes, simple and truly from the Provence ‘terroir’ and which illustrates the affinity between egg and truffle. 2 eggs per person 3-5 grams truffle per egg 10 ml liquid fresh cream per egg Beat the eggs, add chopped truffle 4 to 5 hours before cooking to allow the scent to diffuse (keep you preparation in the fridge). Pour the preparation in a metal bowl, add 8 to 10 g butter (into pieces) per egg. Heat in a water bath, stirring constantly with a whisk, scrape out the sides and bottom. As eggs thicken, pour in the fresh cream, keep thickening. Serve in bowls.
Toasts
à la truffe fraîche
(toasts with fresh truffle)
After a recipe from M. Jean-Pierre Van Cappel 50 g of fresh truffles, brushed and washed 50 g butter ½ tea spoon of cognac ¼ bouillon cube wafer pain de campagne (country bread) or pain de seigle frais (or fresh rye bread) Mix all the ingredients until obtaining a smooth butter. Spread over thin bread slices. Place briefly in a hot oven. On leaving the oven, you can also add on the toasts topped some very thin truffle slices. An excellent champagne is required.
Brie à la truffe (truffled brie)
Choose a nice Brie cheese, starting to reach good maturity but that doesn’t flow yet. Cut it in two discs horizontally (requires some skills!), insert good size truffle slices (at least 1 mm thick) in between the two discs, then close and wrap in plastic film and leave at cool temperature for 24 h. Serve with great bread and wine.
Truffle
Butter
Truffle butter is a great way to use black truffles for cooking. Truffle butter is really simple to
make, and quite literally involves blending the truffle with salted, or unsalted
butter. Ingredients 10-20g Truffle 250g Butter Instructions Get the butter to room temperature,
so it is really soft. Miropolane or grate the truffle. Mix the truffle with the butter
and make sure you get an even distribution of the truffle in the butter. Mould
into the shape you want. Refrigerate to harden. You can even make small patties of truffle butter and serve with a steak and voila! eat of fresh bread - spread on creakers - stir into scambled eggs- stir into pasta dishes - add to mash potatoes -stir into risotto - spread on grilled cheese sandwiches etc The butter will still retain good flavour after being frozen.
Truffle
Salt
Truffle salt is really popular with
chefs because it is such an easy way to add magic to any dish. To make truffle salt, thinly slice
or grate the truffle and
distribute throughout the salt. The salt reacts with the truffle capturing the
aroma. Sterilize the container you use to store the salt, but after that, it's
really easy. Ingredients 150g Good quality Rock salt 20g truffle Instructions After sterilizing the container you
will use to store your truffle salt, thinly grate the truffle. Put the truffle
in the container and add half the salt. Seal the container and shake to mix the
salt with the truffle. Add the remaining salt and shake again. Seal. It is that simple. You can then add your truffle salt whenever you're cooking Truffle salt probably lasts the
longest of any of these methods, at 4 months, although I'd always suggest using
it as soon as you can.
Black Truffle Risotto
Ingredients ·
1 L (4-5 cups) chicken or vegetable stock. ·
2 tablespoons of butter ·
2 shallots, peeled and finely chopped ·
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced ·
200 grams (1 cup) Arborio rice ·
50-100ml of medium/dry white wine ·
5 grams (1-2 tablespoons) finely grated black truffle ·
80 grams parmesan cheese grated ·
Salt/pepper to taste 1.
In a small pot, heat stock until just under a simmer, then turn
the heat down to medium low, enough to just maintain the simmer. 2.
In a medium to large pot, melt butter on med-high heat and add in
the garlic and shallots, cooking until they are
soft and translucent. Then pour in the rice, stirring constantly with a wooden
spoon in order to coat the rice
with butter (and keep it from burning) cooking for another minute of two. 3.
Deglaze everything with a generous splash of white wine,
continuing to stir. Once the liquid has been absorbed from the wine, add in
about 100ml of the stock, stirring in a figure 8 pattern while the rice absorbs
the liquid. Once it has absorbed the liquid, add another dose of stock to the
rice, stirring continually, and repeat until the rice is soft and creamy, with
an al dente texture. If you feel the rice is not soft enough after all the stock
has been added, feel free to continue adding hot water until the rice is cooked
to your desired doneness. If you feel the rice is ready before all the stock is
used up, that’s fine too. 4.
Take the rice off the heat and stir in the grated truffle and parmesan
cheese. Add any salt/pepper to taste if desired and serve. Optionally, you can
garnish with a couple of slices of fresh truffle to dress the dish up a little
bit.
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