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Purée de Haricots Verts, Otherwise Cormeilles

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. Cream
  2. Milk
  3. Cut
  4. one and one-half lbs. of French beans
  5. two tablespoonfuls of cooked French beans
  6. Rub
  7. one pint of white consommé
  8. one oz. of butter
  9. two medium-sized minced potatoes
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Parboil one and one-half lbs.
  2. of French beans and keep them very green.
  3. After having well drained them, stew them for ten or twelve minutes in one oz.
  4. of butter, moisten with one pint of white consommé, and add two medium-sized minced potatoes for the thickening.
  5. Set to cook gently, rub through tammy, rectify the consistence of the purée with a little boiled milk, despumate, and add butter when dishing up.
  6. Garnish with two tablespoonfuls of cooked French beans cut into narrow lozenges.
  7. This soup may also be prepared as a velouté or a cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Colander