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Pan-Fried Landes Black Pudding with Red Apples, Pork Belly, and Port Wine Sauce with Basque Spices

Ingredients (Serves 4)
  • Landes black pudding: 600 g
  • Pork belly (ventrèche): 130 g
  • Red apples: 3
  • Charlotte potatoes: 200 g
  • Port sauce (recipe below)
  • Chinese cinnamon powder
  • Garlic
  • Bay leaf (laurel)
  • Rosemary
  • For the port sauce:
    Butter: 20 g
  • Shallot: 1 small
  • Onion: 1 small
  • Veal jus: 15 cl
  • Brown sugar: 1 teaspoon
  • Nutmeg powder: 5 g
  • Port: 20 cl
  • Red wine: 10 cl
  • Salt and ground pepper

Preparation
  • Prep time: 35 minutes
  • Cook time: 15 minutes
  • Total time: 50 minutes
  • Difficulty: Intermediate

Cut Charlotte potatoes into large cubes, blanch briefly, drain, and sauté in butter with a touch of garlic until golden.

Peel and core the red apples, slice into 1 cm pieces, and poach in a light syrup. Set aside.

Slice the black pudding into 2 mm thick rounds. Thinly slice the pork belly and remove the skin from the pudding slices.

Pan-fry the black pudding slices (2 x 15 ml portions) dry in a very hot pan until well-browned. Drain and similarly brown the pork belly slices.

Plate by arranging a dome of garlic potatoes in a circle at the top. Layer pork belly on top, then alternate pudding slices and pan-fried potatoes in a half-rosette below. Surround with port sauce, season with fresh ground pepper, and dust lightly with Chinese cinnamon.

Garnish with a bay leaf and rosemary sprig.


Hubert's Port Sauce:

Peel and finely chop the shallot. Melt in a little butter.

Deglaze with port and red wine, add brown sugar and nutmeg, and reduce to a glaze.

Add veal jus and reduce further.

Strain through cheesecloth.

Off the heat, whisk in remaining butter (monter au beurre). Season with salt and fresh ground pepper.