Consommé à la Milanaise (Chicken Consommé with Fried Macaroni Palets and Grated Cheese)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Clear chicken Consommé
- Fine macaroni
- Sauce Béchamel
- Egg yolks
- Cheese
- Butter
- Egg
- Breadcrumbs
- Grated cheese
Instructions
- Prepare a clear chicken Consommé.
- Blanch fine macaroni and cut it into rings half a centimetre thick.
- Mix the macaroni with a stiff sauce Béchamel, bind with egg yolks and add cheese.
- Spread the mixture a good half-centimetre thick on a buttered tray and leave it to cool.
- Cut the mixture into palets the size of a décime, pass them through egg and very fine breadcrumbs, and true up the shape.
- Fry the palets at the moment and serve them separately with grated cheese.