Consommé à la Florentine (Clear Chicken Consommé with Three Coloured Quenelles)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Clear chicken Consommé
- Chicken forcemeat
- Tongue purée
- Purée of white of chicken
- Spinach purée
- Green peas
- Chervil pluches
Instructions
- Divide the chicken forcemeat into three parts, the spinach part being double the others.
- Add tongue purée, or very finely chopped scarlet tongue, to the first part.
- Add purée of white of chicken to the second part.
- Add spinach purée to the third, double, part.
- Shape each forcemeat into small oblong quenelles.
- Garnish the clear chicken Consommé with the three kinds of quenelle, the green peas and the chervil pluches.