Scrambled Eggs with Fresh Sea-urchins

Oeufs brouillés aux oursins

Preparation info
  • For

    four

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in

By Jean Troisgros and Pierre Troisgros

Published 1978

  • About

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg (3 lb 6 oz) live sea-urchins
  • 10

Method

Preparation

  1. If possible, choose sea-urchins of a good purple colour, at the peak of freshness and heavy with sea water. To open them, cut a round hole with a pair of scissors a quarter of the way down from the concave end where the mouth of the creature is located. With the back of a spoon, detach the yellow ‘coral’, which is fixed t