Recipe: cucumber verrine

A small verrine as a starter?

Ingredients :

• 1/2 Cucumber
• 1 Pear
• 1/2 Lemon, yellow
• 1/2 bunch of mint
• 50 g of pine nuts
• 4 teaspoons of heavy cream

Vinaigrette

• olive oil
• Vinegar
• salt and pepper

Preparation:

1. Cut the cucumber with its skin and the pear into small, even cubes and lemon it.
2. Finely chop the mint.
3. Roast pine nuts in a lightly oiled pan.
4. Prepare the vinaigrette with the olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
5. Place the diced cucumber and pear, pine nuts and 3/4 of the mint in a bowl.
6. Season and mix gently with a little vinaigrette.
7. Pour into the verrines and top with a quenelle of heavy cream sprinkled with mint. Finish with a pinch of salt and a turn of the pepper mill and serve.

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