Consommé au Vert-pré (Green-Meadow Consommé with Spring Vegetables)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Consommé
- Tapioca
- Asparagus tips
- Peas
- Green beans
- Sorrel leaves
- Lettuce leaves
- Chervil
Instructions
- Thicken the Consommé very lightly with tapioca, in the proportion of 30 grammes per litre.
- Cut the green beans into lozenges.
- Poach the sorrel and lettuce leaves and cut them into rounds.
- Garnish the Consommé with the asparagus tips, the peas, the green beans, the rounds of sorrel and lettuce, and chervil pluches.