Chinese Consommé

Name: Chinese Consommé
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 green onion and stalk, sliced very thin and/or a few very thin slices of whatever vegetable lurks in the bin, such as squash, cucumber, radish, etc.; ½ cup dry white wine (or juice of ½ lemon); 2 cups beef or chicken consommé (1 can) or vegetable juice saved from cooking; 1 stalk celery sliced very thin; 2 cups (1 can) tomato juice; 1 tablespoon butter or olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Cook a Wolf

By MFK Fisher

Published 1944

About

Ingredients

2 cups beef or chicken consommé (1 can) or vegetable juice saved from cooking
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Asia
China
Supper
Starter
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the consommé and tomato juice. Put everything else in a hot tureen or casserole, pour the soup over, and serve at once. The nearly transparent rounds and crescents of the raw vegetables float on the top, and with the wine give a delicate flavor that seldom needs other seasoning.