Consommé Carmen (Clear Soup with Tomato, Sweet Pepper and Rice)

Ingredients

• Consommé ordinaire
• 1 quarter sweet pepper
• 4 spoonfuls tomato essence
• peeled tomato flesh
• sweet peppers
• rice
• chervil pluches

Instructions

1. During the clarification of the Consommé ordinaire, add per litre a quarter of a sweet pepper and 4 spoonfuls of tomato essence, or 4 spoonfuls of tomato purée well dried beforehand.
2. Cut peeled tomato flesh into dice and poach them in the consommé.
3. Cut sweet peppers into a fine julienne.
4. Prepare rice with the grains kept quite whole.
5. Garnish the consommé with the tomato dice, the pepper julienne, the rice and chervil pluches.