Consommé Renaissance (Chicken Consommé with Early Vegetables and Herb Royale)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Clear chicken Consommé
- Carrots
- Turnips
- Early vegetables of all kinds
- Spring aromatic herbs
- Velouté
- Whole eggs
- Chervil pluches
Instructions
- Prepare a clear chicken Consommé.
- Cut carrots and turnips with a small fluted spoon and cook them in Consommé; do the same, generally, with all early vegetables.
- Make a purée of spring aromatic herbs, bind it with Velouté and whole eggs and cook it as a royale.
- Cut the royale into small leaf shapes with cutters of different shapes and sizes.
- Garnish the Consommé with the vegetables, the royale and chervil pluches.