Chicken Aspic with Cream Cheese
From: Meme, St-Jerome, Quebec, Canada
Comments: A delicious aspic that can be served as a main dish on a buffet table, as a hors d'oeuvre on lettuce leaves, even as an appetizer on Melba toasts that will desappear fast.
Servings: 5
IngredientsPreparation
  • 1 [10-ounce / 284-mL] can consomme concentrate
  • 3/4 of a 1-tablespoon [7-g] pack unflavored gelatin
  • 1 [6-ounce / 170-g] can chicken flakes, well-drained
  • 8 ounces [227 g] cream cheese, softened
  • Butter
  • Butter an approximately 4-cup [1-L] glass mold.
  • Heat consomme concentrate without boiling before stirring in unflavored gelatin until completely dissolved.
  • Pour half of mixture into prepared mold; reserve remaining consomme mixture at room temperature..
  • Refrigerate until set.
  • Mix together drained chicken flakes an softened cream cheese.
  • Evenly spread mixure all over set gelatin.
  • Delicately pour remaining consomme mixture on top of chicken-cream cheese mixture.
  • Refrigerate until set before serving.