Spring green soup with puff pastry cap
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Leeks | |
| 4 | Green onions | |
| ½ | pounds | Shiitake or domestic |
| Mushrooms | ||
| 1 | pounds | Thin asparagus (about 24 |
| Spears) | ||
| ¼ | pounds | Sugar snap peas |
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter |
| 6 | cups | Chicken stock |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | White pepper |
| ½ | pounds | Prepared puff pastry -- |
| Thawed if frozen | ||
| 1 | Egg | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Water |
Directions
1. Clean leeks (see step 1, Allium Bisque, in this cookbook); slice crosswise into ¼-inch-thick pieces. Trim green onions and slice diagonally into 1-inch pieces. Wash mushrooms, trim and discard stems, and slice into strips about ¼ inch wide. Wash asparagus, discard any dry, tough ends, and slice on diagonal into 1-inch pieces. Remove stems from snap peas.
2. Heat butter in a large saucepan. Add leeks and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until tender (about 8 minutes). Add mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in onions and cook 1 minute. Add stock, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes. Add asparagus and peas; turn off heat.
3. Pour into 2-quart souffle dish. Cool slightly, then refrigerate until well chilled.
4. Cut puff pastry into a circle 2 inches larger than souffle dish. Place pastry over top of dish and press onto sides, smearing edges of puff pastry slightly to adhere to dish. Refrigerate until 45 minutes before serving time.
5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix egg and water and brush on puff pastry. Bake until pastry is golden brown and crisp (about 40 minutes).
Serve immediately: cut puff pastry open at the table, ladle a piece of pastry and a serving of soup into individual bowls.
Makes 6 servings.
Recipe By : The California Culinary Academy File