Consommé à la Villeneuve (Clear Chicken Consommé with Stuffed Lettuce and Ham Pancakes)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Clear chicken Consommé
- Lettuces
- Chicken forcemeat
- Scarlet tongue
- Pancakes
- Ham forcemeat
- Ordinary royale
Instructions
- Prepare a clear chicken Consommé.
- Add chopped scarlet tongue to the chicken forcemeat and stuff the lettuces with it.
- Braise the lettuces and cut them into small quarters.
- Mask rectangles of pancake with a fine layer of ham forcemeat and pass them for a moment at the mouth of the oven to poach the forcemeat.
- Cut ordinary royale into pastilles.
- Garnish the Consommé with the lettuce quarters, the pancake rectangles and the royale pastilles.