Consommé Printanier (Chicken Consommé with Spring Vegetables)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Clear chicken Consommé
- Carrots
- Turnips
- Fine small peas
- Green beans
- Sorrel leaves
- Lettuce leaves
- Chervil pluches
Instructions
- Prepare a clear chicken Consommé.
- Cut the carrots and turnips with a column cutter 3 millimetres in diameter and trim them into small sticks 2 and a half centimetres long.
- Cook the sticks down in Consommé.
- Cut the green beans into lozenges.
- Cut the sorrel and lettuce leaves into rounds and poach them at the last moment.
- Garnish the Consommé with the carrots and turnips, the fine small peas, the green beans, the sorrel and lettuce and chervil pluches.