Consommé Printanier (Spring Vegetable Consommé)

Ingredients

• clear chicken consommé (consommé de volaille clair)
• carrots
• turnips
• fine peas
• green beans
• sorrel leaves
• lettuce leaves
• chervil leaves

Instructions

1. Prepare a clear chicken consommé as the base broth. Separately, prepare the garnish elements:
2. Cut carrots and turnips into small batons precisely 2.5 centimeters in length, each trimmed to a 3-millimeter diameter cylinder. Blanch these until just tender, then add to the consommé.
3. Add fine peas to the consommé.
4. Cut green beans into diamond-shaped pieces and add to the consommé.
5. Just before service, poach thin rounds of sorrel and lettuce leaves briefly, then add them to the consommé along with fresh chervil sprigs.
6. Serve hot.