California Farm Cornish Chicken Consommé for 2
Introduce
Chef :
Hobby Horseman
California Farm Cornish Chicken Consommé for 2
A whole young, tender small cornish hen makes a great soup dinner for one, with a special flavorfull chicken broth called consommé.
With these tender chickens, they are browned whole, then simmered longer and more delicately because of their tender taste, then deboned and served with soup vegetables and rice to make a Sunday delicacy.
The meat, rice and jullienned vegetables are eaten with fresh handmade corn tortillas or fresh baked sour dough bread as a second course.
Ingredient
Food ration :
2 people, 4 cups
Cooking time :
Overnight
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Thaw the chickens in salted water. Flip over so both sides are well thawed. Rinse in and out.
* Step 2
Julienne the vegetables, 1/8” thick, 2 1/2 inches long.
* Step 3
Brown the whole chickens in olive oil in the dutch oven on all four sides. The browner the chicken skin, the darker the broth. Cover with 8 cups water, add vegetables, herbs, pepper, bring to slow gentle boil then turn down to a very low simmer, low flame, overnight. The simmer should bubble the broth, but barely.
* Step 4
Debone meat from carcass, pull meat into bite size pieces, set aside with the julienned vegetables. Bones go to the garden fermenter. Put broth in freezer to solidify the fat.
* Step 5
Make the consommé. Skim fat off the cooled broth. Warm the broth, do not boil, stir whisked eggwhites into cold broth, till broth becomes clear. The eggwhites attract the cloudiness in the broth. Pour broth in cheesecloth bag or through clean kitchen towel to capture eggwhites. Simmer pure clear consommé broth to condense to 4 cups from 8 starting. Takes a few hours, smells delicious. Taste. Add optional chicken bouillion cube if desired. Egg whites go to the dog and cat.
* Step 6
While consommé is simmering, bring half cup dry long rice like Basmati to hard boil in cup of water with 1/8 teaspoon turmeric, keep lid on pan, turn off heat, wait an hour. Makes one cup cooked rice.
* Step 7
Put pulled cornish hen meat, jullienne vegetables and rice in broth, warm, not too hot. Taste and add flaked seasalt and white pepper to taste. Sprinkle soup with parsley garnish. Serve soup with tortillas for dipping, or a slice of fresh baked sour dough bread. Enjoy.
* Step 8
Traditonally, After the broth has been consumed, you create a second course from the meat, rice and vegetables on your plate, with a fresh tortilla. Pour cup of boiling water over cup of masa corn flour, stir with wooden spoon, roll into ball. Rest five minutes, make eight balls. Press flat into tortillas, crisp and blister in hot dry cast iron skillet. Use as wrap around chicken rice vegetable mix.
* Step 9
The meat and vegetables and rice in the soup are also eaten as a second course with a slice of fresh baked sour dough bread, pickled cucumber, pickled boiler onions, and a condiment sauce called piccalilly. Seconds are obligatory. Enjoy.
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Tag
American
Chicken
small whole cornish hens, 1 1/4 pound each
cube, Optional, chicken bouillion
olive oil
water, 8 cups
cooked basmati rice with 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
each celery stalk, carrot, white onion, jullienned 1/8th “ x 2 1/2”
tarragon
whole bay leaf
whole piece of mace
white pepper
chopped fresh parsley leaves for garnish when serving
eggwhites to clarify broth
fresh blue corn tortillas, one cup masa, or
small baguette french bread, sour dough
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