Cream of Lettuce Soup (Crème à la Choisy)

Ingredients

• 750 g lettuce
• 100 g butter
• 1 litre béchamel sauce (mother sauce)
• 1 décilitre white consommé or milk

Instructions

1. Blanch the lettuce, then refresh it with cold water and press it dry. Coarsely chop it and stew it gently in the butter.
2. Add the lettuce to the béchamel sauce and finish cooking gently.
3. Pass the soup through a fine strainer. Adjust the consistency with the white consommé or milk. Heat through without allowing it to boil, then finish with cream at the moment of service.
4. Garnish with small diced croutons fried in butter and chervil leaves.