Langoustine Bisque Recipes

LANGOSTINO BISQUE RECIPE

Steps:

• In a medium pot, melt 4 tbsp butter over medium heat. Add onions, celery and carrots. Sauté 5 - 6 minutes, until onions just begin to soften.
• Add garlic, tomato paste, thyme, salt and pepper to the pot. Sauté for another 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Sprinkle 4 tbsp flour into pot and stir to combine. Cook flour mixture 2 - 3 minutes.
• Add seafood stock, wine, sherry (if using), paprika and bay leaves. Cover and turn heat down to medium low.
• Simmer for 30 minutes, or until vegetables are completely soft. Remove bay leaves.
• Carefully ladle soup into blender and purée until smooth. Add cream to blender and purée for a few seconds to blend in the cream.
• Pour into bowls, top with langostinos and finely chopped chives. Serve immediately.

LANGOUSTINE BISQUE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6.
• Very lightly roast the langoustine shells in the oven for 5-10 minutes - you just want the shells to start to become fragrant and get a very light golden hue.
• Meanwhile, put a large pot over a medium heat and add the butter. When warm, add the garlic, shallots, herbs and spices and sweat until the shallot is soft.
• Add the lightly roasted shells to the pan and crush with the back of a wooden spoon to extract as much flavour as possible.
• Add the vermouth and brandy to deglaze the pan. Turn up the heat and reduce by ½.
• Stir in the tomato purée. Then add the stock and simmer for about an hour. (You want to be left with just under 1ltr of stock.)
• When it's done, strain the liquid - I use a mouli grater and crush the shells as I pass it, but you can also pass the mix through a colander, using a rolling pin to smash all the juice and other tasty morsels through the holes. After that, pass through a chinois or fine sieve.
• Return the liquid to the heat in a small pan and add the cream. Bring up to a gentle simmer. Check the seasoning and add a squeeze of lemon, if you like.
• Pour into bowls and serve immediately.

LANGOUSTINE BISQUE

Steps:

• Chop up 1 c of Langoustine.
• Reserve the rest Melt butter in soup pot.
• Saute the minced shallots for a few minutes.
• Add the chopped Langoustine.
• Stir in the flour until smooth.
• Cook for a minute stirring constantly.
• Lower heat to simmer.
• Gradually add sherry, continuing to stir, then gradually add milk as well, whisking til smooth.
• Heat the soup on medium low, but do NOT bring to a boil.
• Add the rest of the ingredients.
• Stir in the langoustine and cook until heated through.

LANGOSTINO BISQUE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a soup pot over medium heat. Add onion and sauté until translucent, 3 to 5 minutes. Add bone broth, clam juice, mushrooms, celery, carrots, bell pepper, 1/2 teaspoon Aleppo pepper, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and black pepper. Stir in 1/3 of the langostino tails; bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and use an immersion blender to puree until smooth. Add cream, Marsala wine, and remaining langostino tails.
• Return to the stove over low and heat until flavors have blended, about 5 minutes; do not boil.
• Taste and season as needed with salt and Aleppo pepper.
• Ladle into bowls and garnish with croutons.