Laurent Mariotte makes director Olivier Marchal and actor Gérard Lanvin discover the blanquette of pork cheeks with cider and ginger, a recipe from Hélène Tubach, chef at Les 2 Bécasses restaurant in Cerdon-du-Loiret (Loiret).

Ingredients (for 4-6 people)

  • About 1 kilogram of pork cheeks
  • 1 liter of cider
  • Bouquet garni
  • Carrots and onion for cooking broth
  • 70 grams of flour
  • 70 grams of butter
  • Ginger powder
  • 1 egg yolk

Recipe

Prepare a cooking broth and add a liter of cider and powdered ginger.

Cook the pork cheeks directly in a Dutch oven in a 180 ° oven for about two hours.

After one hour of cooking, prepare the roux, take about a liter of broth and filter it to make the roux which will be made like a classic roux with an egg yolk in the end. Adjust the seasoning of this coating sauce with a little powdered ginger, salt and pepper.

Coat the crystallized pork cheeks and serve with seasonal vegetables (here new turnips, cooked yellow beets and white radishes).