Alpine food

Alpine bisque with chicken bolls

4 persons  

Ingredients:

Bisque

A whole chicken

½ tablespoon salt

10 black peppercorn

2 carrots  

½ pound celeriac

6 cloves garlic

1-2 tablespoons japaneese soya

3 dl water

Egg noodles

Chicken bolls

Cooked chicken from the bisque, boneless, skinless and minced

1 dl bread crumbs

1 dl cream

1 egg

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon black pepper

1 dl chopped parsley

Recipe:

1.Cut the whole chicken into pieces

2.Pour over 3 l water and bring to it to boil

3.Add 2 carrots, ½ pound celeriac and 6 cloves garlic

4.Reduce the heat and let simmer for about 1 hour

5.Season with ½ tablespoon salt, 10 black peppercorn and 1 tablespoon japaneese soya and let simmer for 30 min more

6.Turn off the heat and strain the bisque

7.Remove chicken skin, bone out and mince the chicken

8.Mix 1 dl bread crumbs and, 1 dl cream and 1 egg, blend in the minced chicken

9.Season with ½ tablespoon salt and ½ tablespoon black pepper

10.Blend in 1 dl chopped parsley

11.Bring the bisque on boil, roll small bolls of the minced chicken and put them into boiling bisque

12.Let cook for 5 min

13.Cook the egg noodles

14.Serve the bisque with egg noodles, slices of the cooked carrot and some persley leaves

Asparagus with Bozner sauce
and schwarzwald ham

Ingredients:

600 g green or white asparagus

8 slices schwarzwald ham

2 l water

2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoon butter

Egg dressing

2 eggs

1 teaspoon dijon mustard

1 teaspoon  white wine vinegar  

1 ½ dl olive oil

½ dl mayonnaise

1 tablespoon chive

White pepper and salt for seasoning

Recipe:

1. Peel asparagus and cut off ca1cm from the ends.

2. Put the asparagus into a pot with water, salt and butter.  Boil the asparagus for ca 10 min.

3. Take upp the asparagus and let it cool.

4. Boil the eggs hard and rinse under cold water immediately until they cold and chop them.Blend mustard, vinegar, chive and oil. Blend in carefully the chopped eggs. Season with salt and white pepper.

5. Roll 2 asparagus in each ham slice and put on some egg dressing.