Eel Alla Milanese
Traditional dish with eel, flour, stock.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 1 large eel
- 2 ounces butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup stock
- 4 ounces chablis wine
- 1 bay leaf
- to taste a medley of vegetables
Steps
- Cut the eel.
- Fry it in butter.
- When it is a good colour, add the flour, stock, wine, bay leaf, pepper, and salt.
- Boil until it is well cooked.
- In the meantime, separately boil the vegetables.
- Take out the pieces of eel.
- Keep them hot.
- Pass the liquor which forms the sauce through a sieve.
- Add the vegetables to this.
- Let the vegetables boil a little longer in the liquor.
- Then, arrange them in a dish.
- Place the pieces of eel on the vegetables.
- Cover with the liquor.
- Serve very hot.
Adapted from “Eel alla Milanese”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.