Artichauts à la Barigoule

Artichokes Stuffed with Mushrooms and Ham

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

The meat stuffing makes these artichokes a substantial first course or a simple main one. The name ‘barigoule’ comes from ‘farigoule’, the Provencal word for thyme.

Ingredients

4 large artichokes

Method

For the stuffing, first make a duxelles: melt the butter in a frying pan, add the onion and cook over a low fire until soft but not brown. Add the mushrooms and cook over a high fire, stirring often, until all the moisture has evaporated. Stir in the parsley and ham and leave to cool. Mince/grind the lean and fat pork together and add to the cooled duxelles with the egg, pepper, allspice and th