40 Artichoke Sauce

Main ingredients

• 3 globe artichokes each weighing about 250 g (9 oz)
• 2

1. Wash the artichokes and cut off their stalks. Cook them for forty-five minutes, covered, in two litres of boiling salted water to which you have added the lemon juice.
2. At the end of the cooking, refresh the artichokes in cold water, pull off their leaves, remove the chokes and take out the hearts, which are then puréed in the liquidiser with the crème fraîche a