Sweetbreads
God I love sweetbreads. Sweetbreads and fois gras. Though to be honest I don't think I've actually had them together.
Hmmmm...
By Karl
Sweetbreads in Mango Sauce
Sweetbreads served on creamed spinach with mango sauce
main meat
Serves a couple
- sweetbreads
- one mango
- half a lemon
- 1 tsp cornflour
- spinach
- garlic
- lemon peel
Soak the sweetbreads in cold (ice) water for an hour to rinse off blood.
Boil the sweetbreads in (half a) lemon juice water for five minutes, then cool
and remove the membranes and any blood vessels.
coat in seasoned flour. (paprika seemed a nice touch)
Boil up the mango (mashed a little) with some water and the half a lemon of juice.
Force the juice through a sieve to make a clear sauce then thicken with cornflour mixed in
a little water and simmer to cook the flour a little and thicken the sauce.
Boil the spinach in only the water that sticks to it from washing. Squeeze out the spinach onion
and cut it up or puree it and set aside. prepare a bechamel sauce with minced onions and
minced garlic use cream or half and half and use the excess spinach water . Flavour it
lightly with grated lemon peel. Stir in the pureed spinach.
Fry the seasoned sweetbreads in clarified butter for a few minutes until golden
brown. Serve the sweetbreads on a bed of creamed spinach and cover with the
sauce