1 Cut your chicken breasts open like a book until about 4/5 of the way through, season with salt and pepper, and set aside in the cold.
2 Clean your porcini mushrooms, remove the stems and cut them into small mirepoix (small cubes).
3 Then sauté them in a pan with a little goose fat, season with salt and pepper, add your minced shallot, then set aside at room temperature.
4 Slice your porcini caps into thick slices about 1 cm, sauté them, season with salt and pepper, drain well, then set aside.
5 In a bowl, pour the liquid cream, then the starch, stir, then add the egg yolks and stir.
6 In a small saucepan, place your porcini stems, when they are hot, add the cream, egg yolk and starch mixture over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon until well bound, then transfer to a plate and chill.
7 When everything is well chilled, remove your porcini filling and place it inside each chicken breast, wrap each one in plastic wrap. Steam them in a couscous maker or steamer for 15 minutes.
8 Meanwhile, peel your salsify and place them in cold lemon water as you go (to keep them white).
9 Bring water to a boil with a tablespoon of milk and salt. Cut your salsify into sections of 5 to 6 cm and plunge them into the boiling cooking water, then reduce to low heat for about 10 minutes. Test them from time to time with the tip of a knife, then drain and sauté them in a pan with fat until they have a nice golden color. Heat your porcini coulis and keep your porcini caps warm.
10 Presentation: remove the plastic wrap and slice your chicken breast on the bias into 3 pieces, place in the center of the plate. Add a thin veil of porcini cream and arrange the sliced porcini caps on top with care. On each side of the chicken, make small bundles with the salsify, then add a drizzle of coulis around. Keep this recipe well, as you can easily remake it with guinea fowl fillets, pheasant, quail, or thinly sliced veal escalopes.
In Quercy, farmwives once stuffed chicken breast with grated truffles. Here we replace them with autumn porcini mushrooms, cheaper and just as flavorful. Some old Périgord cooks add a touch of chicken liver mousse to the filling: it's just richer, not better. Keep the pure porcini version.
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