Consommé à la Mégère (Clear Consommé with Potato Gnokis and Lettuce Chiffonnade)

Ingredients

• Clear ordinary Consommé
• Hollande potatoes
• Egg yolks
• Chervil
• Salted water
• Lettuce
• Large vermicelli

Instructions

1. Prepare a clear ordinary Consommé.
2. Bake a few Hollande potatoes in the oven, take out the pulp and work it smooth briskly with a spoon.
3. Bind the pulp at the rate of 4 egg yolks per pound and add chopped chervil copiously.
4. Roll the mixture into gnokis the size of a hazelnut and poach them in salted water 10 minutes before serving.
5. Garnish the Consommé with the gnokis as the principal element, adding a chiffonnade of lettuce and poached large vermicelli.