Cervelles en Meurette

Brains Poached in Red Wine

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

‘Meurette’ combines four of the most typical Burgundian ingredients - bacon, onions, mushrooms and red wine. As well as accompanying brains or eggs as in these two recipes, sauce meurette is excellent with fish: the fish is poached in wine, which is then used to make the sauce. Folklore has it that the fish must be alive when they go into the pot.