31 Dame Tartine

Name: Dame Tartine
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz) raw tomato pulp; 1 slice cooked ham weighing 100 g (3½ oz); oil for frying; 4 slices of bread, 16 cm (6½ inches) long, 10 cm (4 inches) wide and 1.5 cm (¾ inch) thick; 1 tablespoon freshly-chopped parsley; 30 g (1 oz) chopped raw onion; 20 g (¾ oz) flour; 200 g (7 oz) grated Gruyère; 1 tablespoon of kirsch; 2 eggs; 10 turns of the pepper-mill; 2 teaspoons salt

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cuisine Gourmande

By Michel Guérard

Published 1978

About

A fried open sandwich ‘A sandwich first course – crisp and succulent’

Ingredients

Main ingredients

200 g (7 oz) grated Gruyère
20 g (¾

Europe
France
Starter
Mediterranean

Method

Blend the grated Gruyère, flour and salt and pepper for 3 minutes in a food processor or liquidiser, adding the eggs one after the other, then the kirsch. Turn the resulting creamy mixture into a large bowl and put in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to thicken a little.
Chop the slice of ham into ½