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Chicken Riviera Pancakes
Ingredients
Serves 4
- 110g/4oz butter
- 4 slices back bacon, cut into strips
- 12 halved new potatoes, boiled in skins
- 4 roast chicken legs
- 2 boiled eggs, chopped
- Worcestershire sauce
- 8 x 15-20cm/6-8” pancakes
- 40g/1 ½ oz flour
- 275ml/½ pt milk
- 275ml/½ pt double cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 110g/4oz grated cheddar cheese
- 2tbsp freshly grated parmesan
- 8 stems asparagus
- 1tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp chives, finely chopped
- Salt & pepper
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6.
- Heat a frying pan until hot, add half the butter and the bacon and fry until golden brown.
- Crush the cooked potatoes with the back of a fork and add to the bacon, stirring to combine.
- Strip meat from the chicken legs and add to hash, frying until golden brown.
- Add the boiled eggs and season with Worcestershire sauce, salt and black pepper.
- Spoon the mixture onto the half of a pancake then roll up like cannelloni. Repeat with the remaining mixture and pancakes.
- Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter in pan, add the flour and cook until light golden brown.
- Heat the milk and cream in a saucepan then stir into the roux and cook until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, stirring all the time.
- Pass through a fine sieve into a bowl, then stir in the egg yolks and cheese, stirring until the mixture is smooth.
- Spoon a third of the sauce into an ovenproof dish, then lay the filled pancakes on top and pour the rest of sauce over the top to cover.
- Sprinkle with the parmesan cheese and put in the oven for 10-20 minutes, to heat through until golden brown and bubbling.
- Meanwhile, bring a pan of salted water to the boil, add the asparagus and cook for 2-3 minutes until just tender then drain and return to the pan.
- Add the oil and chives, season well and toss to coat.
- Lay on pancakes and serve.