Crème à la Nivernaise (Cream of Carrot Soup)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 600 grammes the red of carrots
- butter
- 1 litre sauce Béchamel
- 1 décilitre Consommé blanc
- cream
- 3 spoonfuls fine brunoise of carrot red
Instructions
- Stew the red of the carrots in butter.
- Add it to the sauce Béchamel, finish the cooking and pass through the étamine.
- Complete with the Consommé blanc and heat.
- Add the cream at the moment of serving.
- Garnish with 3 spoonfuls of fine brunoise of carrot red, stewed in butter and cooked down in Consommé blanc.