Christmas recipe with chestnutsAn easy recipe for your holiday meals in Limousin.

Christmas recipe with chestnuts

Enhance your Christmas meals with a simple, tasty recipe. Natacha Boitte, chef at Le Relais de Gorre near Limoges, offers a recipe for chestnut and mushroom velouté with pan-fried foie gras: the perfect blend of Périgord and Limousin. This recipe, emblematic of Limousin, will add a festive and authentic touch to your Christmas table. Your guests will love these local flavors!

Ingredients

1 onion
320 g button mushrooms
490 g cooked Limousin chestnuts
200 g raw duck foie gras
40 cl milk
60 cl liquid cream

DID YOU KNOW?

The chestnut tree is the emblematic tree of the Limousin. Nicknamed the “breadfruit tree”, it has provided the region’s food and economic base for centuries.

Preparation

Sauté chopped onion and mushrooms for 3 minutes.
Add 400 g chestnuts and mix well. Season with salt and pepper.
Pour the milk and cream over the mixture and cook over a low heat for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, dice the raw liver and brown in a frying pan on both sides. Season with salt
Blend the cream of mushroom and chestnut mixture.

Recipe Veloute Chataigne Foie Gras Christmas Limousin

Dressing the plates

Serve in soup plates ( Limoges porcelain, of course! 😉 ), pour in cream of mushroom and chestnut soup, then add the diced pan-fried liver and crumble 90g of chestnuts for decoration. Sprinkle with a few sprigs of chopped parsley and you’re done!

Practical info

Where can you enjoy this dish?

Meet chef Natacha Boitte in her restaurant
Le Relais de Gorre:

Located in the village of Gorre, in the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional Périgord-Limousin, Natacha and her husband have made their restaurant a favorite for the quality of its dishes, based on local, seasonal produce.

Preparation time

15 to 20 minutes

When to enjoy this dish

This dish, ideal for your Christmas meals, can also be enjoyed throughout the autumn with freshly harvested chestnuts blanched in the purest Limousin tradition. Using the best local preserves, this creamy, flavorful velouté will warm you through the winter too.