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Eel Alla Milanese

Traditional dish with eel, flour, stock.

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

  1. Cut the eel.
  2. Fry it in butter.
  3. When it is a good colour, add the flour, stock, wine, bay leaf, pepper, and salt.
  4. Boil until it is well cooked.
  5. In the meantime, separately boil the vegetables.
  6. Take out the pieces of eel.
  7. Keep them hot.
  8. Pass the liquor which forms the sauce through a sieve.
  9. Add the vegetables to this.
  10. Let the vegetables boil a little longer in the liquor.
  11. Then, arrange them in a dish.
  12. Place the pieces of eel on the vegetables.
  13. Cover with the liquor.
  14. Serve very hot.

Adapted from “Eel alla Milanese”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.

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