Consommé aux Diablotins (Chicken Consommé with Cheese-Gratinated Croutons)

Ingredients

• Consommé de volaille
• tapioca
• flûte (bread)
• reduced sauce Béchamel
• grated cheese
• Cayenne

Instructions

1. Thicken the Consommé de volaille lightly with tapioca.
2. Cut rounds of flûte 6 millimetres thick.
3. Make a mixture of reduced sauce Béchamel with grated cheese added and sharpened with Cayenne.
4. Mask each round in a small dome with this mixture.
5. Gratinate these diablotins a few moments before serving, and add them to the consommé.