COOKING ON STONE
Advice and recipes: Cooking on stone is fully in keeping with
the current trend toward light, dietetic, healthy and natural eating,
because it leaves intact all of the flavors and vitamins of foods. Stone
accumulates heat and then releases it slowly and uniformly during
the cooking.
The ingredients for a "stone supper" are:
Meat: preferably less fatty
Beef: filet and steak. Veal: escalope, filet. Poultry: escalope, filet,
émincé of chicken or turkey, aiguillette or filet of duck. Pork: filet,
roast, chops, bacon.
Fish: all fish in filets or slices (e.g.: salmon).
Shellfish: langoustines, crayfish, scallops, bay scallops, gambas, etc.
Vegetables: thin-sliced mushrooms, round-sliced onions, thin-sliced
zucchini, green or red peppers for the flavor and the pleasure of
the eyes, small tomatoes cut in two, etc.
Accompaniments: sauces, mayonnaise, lemon, harissa,
parsley vinaigrette, garlic, curry, herbes de Provence, etc.
Fruits: bananas, apples, pears, etc.
Preparation of meat and fish:
Meat: cut the meat into thin slices
of
to
cm.
2
4
Fish: cut filets into
to
cm wide strips. You can also prepare mini-
2
4
shish kabobs on wooden skewers. For this, cut the meat or fish into
cubes of
1
.
5
cm on each side.
0
.
5
to
1
cm thick with a width
The chef's secret:
As vegetables need more time to cook than meat, put all of the
vegetables to be cooked on the stone. When they have been cooking
for a while, group them in a corner to make room for the meat.
Just one watchword for an enjoyable meal: have fun and let your
imagination invent new recipes. You will find some suggestions of
original recipes on the following pages.
This unit is not intended to replace an electric or charcoal grill. Do not
try to use this unit to grill very large pieces of meat or whole fish.
LA PIERRE ACAPULCO
Ingredients: 1Kg of rumpsteak – 2 to 3 tablespoons of oil – 500g
of bacon – curry, salt, pepper – 1 red pepper – 2 cloves of garlic-
1 green pepper.
Cut the meat into thin slices of
Mince the peppers and bacon. Crush the garlic with the salt, pepper,
and curry and add the oil. Mix the meat in a salad bowl. Cook the
vegetables first, then the meat.
PIERRE À LA NIÇOISE
Ingredients: 1.2Kg of filet of veal cut into thin slices – 2 zucchini
2 tomatoes – 2 eggplants – salt, pepper, paprika – 1/2 pepper –
2 large minced onions – 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
Mix the slices of veal with olive oil and vegetables in a salad bowl.
Add salt, pepper and paprika and mix. Cook in small portions.
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(For
people)
6
2
to
4
cm and
0
.
5
to
1
.
(For
people)
6
5
cm thick.