Consommé with Diablotins
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Light chicken consommé
- Flûte (thin baguette)
- Béchamel sauce (roux-based cream sauce)
- Grated cheese
- Cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Prepare a light chicken consommé bound with tapioca.
- Slice a thin baguette (flûte) into rounds 6 millimetres thick. Mask each round with a small dome-shaped mound of béchamel sauce (reduced) mixed with grated cheese and seasoned with Cayenne.
- Gratín these diablotins for a few moments just before serving. Ladle the hot consommé into bowls and place the gratinéed bread rounds on top.