Lentil Purée Soup with Quail

Description

This is another nice Hungarian soup made with quail.

Ingredients

• 1 quail
• ½ lb lentils
• 1 celeriac chopped
• ¼ lb ham or bacon
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp flour
• salt and pepper

Directions

1. Soak lentils for a few hours.
2. Cook quail in salted water until tender.
3. Drain and reserve liquid.
4. Cook lentils until tender and pass them through a sieve or puree in blender.
5. Heat butter in pan and sauté ham and celeriac.
6. Add a little flour and brown while stirring constantly then dilute with half of the stock.
7. Bring to a boil for a few minutes then put through a sieve.
8. Mix strained stock with puréed lentils and add other half of the quail stock and simmered covered for 30 minutes.
9. Add quail to pot and serve with croutons.