Serves 4
Ingredients
2 pigeons (550geach)
Pepper swirl
5g fleur de sel
1 egg white
50g hazelnut paste
50gchopped hazelnuts
20g flour
2 pigeon livers
8 small shallots
20 grams of butter
Extra virgin olive oil
1 small coffee
1tbpsglucose
10gpowder and roasted coffee beans
20ml Vinsanto
Method
Coffeesauce
Dissolve the hazelnut paste with the coffee and glucose, a pinch of coffee powder to pass through a sieve.
Shallots
Peel the shallots, put them in boiling salted water with a few drops of vinegar for 2 minutes in a saucepan, with the butter until golden. Adda bit of fleur de sel.
Pigeons
Debonethe thighs, andsautéethe livers in a pan. Pour in the Vinsanto and chop and stir into the thighs. Sealwith a film formed of small cylinders with aluminum foil and bake at 160°Cfor about 15 minutes. Freeze andcoat inflourand roll in chopped hazelnuts. Put them in the oven at 220°Cfor 3 minutes.
Golden the pigeons with their carcasses in a pan over a gentle flame with the extra virgin olive oil, salt.Put into the oven at 200°C for 4 minutes, leave it to rest and keep warm. Debone the breasts.
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