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Recipe using Fourme d’Ambert: Vegetable and Fourme d’Ambert cheese millefeuilles

Main dish

Main dish

Fourme d’Ambert

Fourme d’Ambert

Easy

Easy

Cheap

Cheap

Preparation: 40 mins

Preparation: 40 mins

Cooking time: 8 mins

Cooking time: 8 mins

6 people

6 people

Ingredients
  • 6 slices of brioche
  • 150 g cream
  • 50 g Le Puy lentils
  • 6 slices large tomatoes
  • 6 slices aubergine
  • 20 cl olive oil
  • 250 g Fourme d’Ambert PDO cheese
  • salt and pepper
  • A gratin dish or 6 stainless discs 8 cm in diameter. To serve : 6 walnut halves, a mixture of salad leaves for 6 people, 10cl vinaigrette sauce made with walnut oil.
Preparation
  1. Cook the lentils in boiling salted water (place them in cold water at the start of cooking). Leave to one side.
  2. Fry the aubergine slices in olive oil and reserve them on a plate.
  3. Quickly fry the slices of tomatoes, season and skin them if the skin comes off easily.
  4. Whip the cream.
  5. Cut the brioche to the same diameter as the aubergines and the tomatoes, then toast them in a toaster or in the oven at 392°F to gice them colour.
  6. Using the discs, layer the brioche, the whipped cream, some lentils, them a slice of aubergine and tomato.
  7. Using the discs to measure the size, cut 3-4 cm thick rounds of Fourme d’Ambert cheese and place these on top of the other ingredients.
  8. Place the Fourme d’Ambert millefeuilles in the oven at 356°F for 8 mins.
  9. While they are cooking, prepare your plates with the salad, the walnut oil vinaigrette dressing and the walnut halves.
  10. Place the millefeuilles ont the salad when cooked.

Conseils

Recipe by Thierry Chelle, Toque d’Auvergne

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