20 min

Œufs cocotte with creamy mushrooms

Name: Œufs cocotte with creamy mushrooms
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: x 8.00 eggs; x 2.00 Traditional Shallots; 25.00 g Charentes-Poitou Butter PDO; 50.00 ml Muscadet PDO; 300.00 g Isigny Crème Fraîche & Bresse Crème Fraîche PDO; 200.00 g Mushrooms; 8.00 slices Bayonne Ham PGI; Pepper and salt; 0.25 bunch parsley

By Sylvain Soulard, Chef at Casse Croûte

Oeufs cocotte are a delightful French breakfast or brunch option. Combined with creamy mushrooms, this dish is both comforting and refined. A lovely dish to enjoy throughout the year with seasonal mushrooms.

Ingredients For

eggs x 8
Traditional Shallots

x 2 See the article
Charentes-Poitou Butter PDO

25 g See the article
Muscadet PDO

50 ml See the article
Isigny Crème Fraîche & Bresse Crème Fraîche PDO

300 g See the article
Mushrooms 200 g
Bayonne Ham PGI

8 slices See the article
Pepper and salt
parsley 0.25 bunch

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Preparation

Preheat your oven to 180°C and prepare the ingredients

Cook the Mushrooms: Melt a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Sweat the mushrooms for 2 minutes without seasoning them yet. Set them aside.

In the same pan, melt the rest of the butter, add the shallots and cook for 5 minutes - don’t let them brown. Add white wine, reduce by turning up the heat, and then add the cream.

Stir in the cooked mushrooms and the parsley.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Butter and season four individual-sized ramekins. Crack 2 eggs into each ramekin, being careful not to break the yolk.

Prepare a bain-marie: use a casserole dish or large saucepan, one that’s big enough to hold your ramekins or oven tray so that the ramekins bathe in water to about halfway up their sides. Fill the pan with hot water and cook for 6 minutes

The egg whites won’t be fully cooked at this stage: pour the warm mushroom sauce on top of the eggs, and they will be done perfectly. Serve with toasted bread and cured ham for some extra flavour.