Wednesday 16 December 2009

Soufflé


Here is a very simple recipe that you can do to use stale/hard bread and other left-overs. There are no fixed amounts of ingredients and you can change their proprotions based on your preferences.

- Ingredients: bread (preferably dry/hard), milk, eggs, fish or something else to put in the soufflé, seasonings (salt, pepper, lemon juice, etc.)

1. Soak smaller pieces of bread with milk until they are all wet (make sure not to put too much milk; do it progressively and don't add any more if you see there is milk in the bottom that is not being absorved anymore).
2. Then add your 'main ingredient', such as some loosely shredded fish (no fishbones) or chicken or some other leftover you may have at home (you can even add more than one). If you opt for fish (I used some tuna cans), some lemon juice might be goo on i; add the juice to the fish before you mix it with the bread. Add any other seasoning to taste.
3. Break a few eggs and separate the whites from the yolks (for a bowl like mine which was good for about 6 persons you should use 4-6 eggs but this can be left partially to your consideration but the more whites you have the fluffier it will be). Mix the yolks with the bread mix.
4. Wisk the whites aside right before you plan to put everything in the oven and fold them into the rest.
5. Put everything into a pyrex container greased with butter and leave it in a 180º/200ºC oven for about 30-40 min.

Since soufflés tend to be a bit dry, I would suggest some nice salad on the side.
Enjoy it :P

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