Petits Soufflés à la Florentine (Small Spinach Soufflés)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 100 grammes spinach
- Salt
- Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Butter
- 1½ décilitres reduced sauce Béchamel à la crème
- 3 egg yolks
- 4 small egg whites
Instructions
- Blanch, press and chop 100 grammes of spinach; season with salt, pepper and nutmeg and dry it off in butter.
- Mix it with 1½ décilitres of reduced sauce Béchamel à la crème.
- Add 3 egg yolks and 4 small egg whites beaten to a firm snow.
- Fill the cases or cassolettes and bake as for the preceding soufflés — slow oven, 12 minutes. Makes 10 cases.