Do you know the celtuce? This is a type of lettuce that, instead of forming a ball, grows on a stem. This one is also eaten, its taste resembles that of asparagus. A surprising cross that earned it the nickname of… lettuce-asparagus.
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To cook the stalk, you have to peel it along its entire length in order to be able to taste its very tender flesh. The leaves are more bitter. It is better to cook them to remove some of this bitterness.
Ingredients :
Celtuce
Hazelnut
Wine vinegar
Mustard
Hazelnut oil
Parmesan cheese
The steps of the recipe:
1. Cut off the head
2. Peel the stalk.
3. Immerse the buds in boiling salted water for 30 seconds and let cool.
4. Immerse the stems in boiling water for 10 minutes.
5. Brown the hazelnuts in a pan and crush them
6. Prepare a vinaigrette with the wine vinegar, mustard and hazelnut oil
7. Place it on the celtuce stems and on the leaves
8. Sprinkle with small pieces of hazelnuts
9. Add a few strips of Parmesan
If you don't want to cook ...
If you are in Brittany you can go to Ar Duen, in the forest area of La Hardouinais, in Saint-Launeux, in the Côte d'Armor. Chef Sébastien Colleux offers a starter from the vegetable garden. It is worked like an asparagus, cut into sections with its just bleached leaves. It is served with a hollandaise sauce, slightly lemony which reduces the bitterness of the leaves.
Chef Sébastien Colleux's recipe:
Ingredients :
1 celtuce
3 egg yolks
250 g butter
Marigold flowers
Lemon juice
Preparation of the celtuce:
Cut off the head of the lettuce
Blanch it in salted water for 30 seconds.
Peel the stem like an asparagus
Then cook it in the same salted water for 10 minutes
Cut the stem into 1 cm slices and I
Arrange on a plate with the heart of lettuce next to it
Assemble a hollandaise with 3 egg yolks and 250 g of butter add some marigold flower petals from the vegetable garden