Consommé à la Tosca (Chicken Consommé with Foie Gras Quenelles and Profiteroles)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Chicken Consommé
- Tapioca
- Chicken forcemeat
- Foie gras purée
- Truffle
- Carrots
- Small profiteroles
- Chicken purée
Instructions
- Thicken chicken Consommé lightly with tapioca.
- Work the chicken forcemeat with one-third its quantity of foie gras purée and truffle it.
- Mould the mixture into small quenelles.
- Cut the red of the carrots into a fine julienne and sweat it down in consommé.
- Garnish the Consommé with the quenelles and the carrot julienne.
- Fill small profiteroles with chicken purée and serve them separately.