Consommé à la Doria
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- clear chicken consommé (consommé de volaille clair)
- small fluted quenelles (petites quenelles cannelées) in chicken forcemeat (farce de volaille)
- cucumber balls, glazed (boules de concombres glacées)
- chervil leaves (pluches de cerfeuil)
- cheese-flavored choux paste pearls, fried to order (perles en pâte à choux au fromage, frites au moment)
Instructions
- Prepare a clear chicken consommé as the base.
- Poach small fluted quenelles made from chicken forcemeat.
- Add the poached quenelles to the soup.
- Include glazed cucumber balls as the principal characteristic element of this dish.
- Finish with chervil leaves.
- Prepare cheese-flavored choux paste pearls.
- Fry the choux paste pearls à la minute (to order).
- Serve the fried choux paste pearls separately on the side.