Eggs are one of the favorite foods of the French, inexpensive, healthy and nutritious. Everyone has their own way of preparing it, boiled, hard, soft, poached or as an omelet! César Troisgros, chef at Le Bois sans feuilles restaurant in Ouches, reveals the secrets of a simple and effective recipe: The omelette soufflé with fourme d'Ambert.
A recipe for 4 people proposed by the Troisgros House.
- 2 egg yolks
- 4 egg whites
- 20 g flour
- 150 g of milk
- 20 g butter
- 150 g of Fourme d'Ambert
Break the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Put the yolks in a bowl, add the flour and work the mixture until smooth.
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Crack the eggs, separating the whites from the yolks © Clovis Huet / RT ![Mélanger les œufs avec la farine]()
Mix the eggs with the flour © Clovis Huet / RT
Pour the milk into a small saucepan, add the butter and bring to a boil. Pour everything on the previous device and mix to incorporate. In addition, whip the egg whites until stiff, salt and incorporate them into the previous preparation.
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Whip the egg whites firmly © Clovis Huet / RT ![Mélanger les blancs d'œuf à la préparation jaune, lait et farine]()
Mix the egg whites with the yolk mixture, milk and flour © Clovis Huet / RT
Cut the fourme into shavings. Choose a skillet with a metal handle and heat it. Lightly butter it and add half of the preparation. Start cooking on the heat then put the pan in the oven at 180 ° for 5 minutes.
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Cut the Fourme d'Ambert into shavings © Clovis Huet / RT ![Ajouter la préparation dans le poêlon chauffé]()
Add the preparation to the heated pan © Clovis Huet / RT ![Parsemer le dessus de l'omelette avec des copeaux de Fourme]()
Sprinkle the top of the omelet with Fourme shavings © Clovis Huet / RT
Remove the pan from the oven and slide the soufflé omelet onto a buttered dish. Sprinkle the top with the fourme shavings. Repeat the operation to make the second omelet. When it's done, spill it over the first one.
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© Clovis Huet / RT ![Renverser l'omelette sur une assiette]()
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Serve without delay as an accompaniment to a green salad.
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The 3-star omelette by Michel and César Troigros © Clovis Huet / RT ![César Troisgros nous présente l'omelette soufflée à la Fourme d'Ambert]()
César Troisgros presents us the puffed omelette with Fourme d'Ambert © Clovis Huet / RT
