Meat

Salted ham and pumpkin mash (serves 4)

    Extract from "Recettes des Terroirs" by Logis de France chefs.

Ingredients:
- 2.5 kg of salted ham cut into 6 slices
100 g butter

Sauce accompaniment:
- 50 g chopped garlic
- 10 cl wine vinegar
- 10 cl thickened dark stock
- 200 g butter
- 250 g floury potatoes
- 1 kg pumpkin
- 50 cl milk
- Salt and pepper
- Nutmeg, chopped parsley

 

Sauce :
Put the vinegar and garlic to boil for 30 minutes. Add the dark stock. Reduce. Season. Whisk in knobs of butter a little at a time.

Mash:
Cut the pumpkin (without peeling it, just removing the seeds) and the potatoes into large pieces. Put them into a saucepan with a little water and cook them without stirring. Mash them, add butter and milk, depending on the consistency required. Season (salt, pepper, nutmeg).

Setting out:
Rapidly fry the slices of salted ham simply seasoned them with pepper , place them in the centre of the plate, arrange a crown of mash around them and coat the meat with sauce. Sprinkle with parsley.


Serving suggestions:
Red wine Bourgogne Pinot Noir


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