Soupe Poireaux et Pommes de terre à la Maraîchère (Leek and Potato Soup, Market-Garden Style)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 soupe « Bonne femme »
- white Consommé
- 60 grammes vermicelli
- 50 grammes lettuce and sorrel leaves in chiffonnade
- chervil pluches
Instructions
- Prepare a soupe « Bonne femme », diminishing the proportions of vegetables by 100 grammes, and moisten it with white Consommé.
- A quarter of an hour before serving, put the vermicelli to poach in it.
- Finally add the chiffonnade of lettuce and sorrel leaves, with a few spinach leaves and, when possible, a few purslane leaves.
- Complete with chervil pluches when serving.