Purée Cormeilles (Green Bean and Potato Purée)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 625 grammes green beans
- butter
- 400 grammes potatoes
- three quarters of a litre white Consommé
- 3 to 4 decilitres milk
- 60 grammes small green beans
Instructions
- Blanch the green beans, keeping them a little firm.
- Stew them in butter with the sliced potatoes.
- Moisten with three quarters of a litre of white Consommé and finish the cooking.
- Pass through the tammy.
- Bring to the point of consistency with 3 to 4 decilitres of boiling milk.
- Butter at the moment.
- Garnish with 60 grammes of small green beans, freshly cooked and cut in lozenges.