Potage Garbure à la Maraîchère (Market-Garden Vegetable Garbure)

Ingredients

• 100 grammes salsify
• 50 grammes celery in branches
• 50 grammes potatoes
• 1 small heart of lettuce
• butter
• whites of leeks
• round croûtons of household bread
• grated cheese
• ordinary Consommé

Instructions

1. Shred the salsify, celery, potatoes and lettuce heart, stew them in butter, and finish cooking with a short moistening.
2. Separately, cut a very fine julienne of leek whites and stew it in butter.
3. Pass the first vegetables through the sieve, reduce them to a stiff purée, and mix in the leek julienne.
4. Mask the oven-dried round croûtons with this preparation, dust with grated cheese and gratinate.
5. Simmer as above and serve, with ordinary Consommé apart.