Name: Wild Boar Cutlets ‘Fructidor’ (Côtes de marcassin ‘fructidor’)
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 apples, weighing 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) altogether; 8 chestnuts; 4 fine prunes, soaked overnight; ½ onion; sugar; 2 tablespoons arachide oil; 8 cutlets of wild boar, weighing about 1.6 kg (3 lb 10 oz) altogether, trimmed; salt, freshly-ground pepper; 3 tablespoons wine vinegar; 4 tablespoons dry white wine; 12 juniper berries, lightly crushed; 170 g (6 oz) butter; 2 shallots, chopped; 4 pears, weighing 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) altogether; ½ carrot

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean and Pierre Troisgros

By Jean Troisgros and Pierre Troisgros

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

8 cutlets of wild boar, weighing about 1.6 kg (3 lb 10 oz) al

Method

The Wild Boar

Ask your game merchant to prepare 8 cutlets from a young boar of 30 to 40 kg (66 to 88 lb). Get him to cut off excess fat, to remove the chine bone, leaving just the rib bone, and to beat the cutlets to flatten them slightly. Also get him to chop up the trimmings and bones for you.