Crayfish Tail Puff Pastry Fingers with Red Pepper Mousse Recipe
Flavors of Lyon
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Average
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- 8 crayfish
- 1 poivrade artichoke
- 2 spears of green asparagus
- 1 small zucchini
- olive oil
- salt, pepper, garlic, thyme, basil
Tomato compote
- 2 shallots, chopped
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) white mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 3 fresh tomatoes
- 500 g (2 cups) lobster jus, reduced to a glaze
- olive oil
- garlic, thyme
Red pepper mousse
- 2 red peppers
- 4 wedges of confit tomato
- 4 thin slices of Jabugo ham
- 4 cloves of confit garlic
- 2 plain anchovy fillets
Method
- Separate the heads from the tails of the crayfish; peel the tails and set aside.
- Turn the poivrade artichoke and quarter it; peel the asparagus, cut the tips in 6 cm (2 1/2") lengths and halve them lengthwise.
- Slice the zucchini.
- In a Dutch oven, sweat the artichoke quarters in olive oil; add the asparagus and zucchini; season; set aside.
Tomato compote
- Sweat the shallots with some garlic and thyme; add the mushrooms and color everything.
- Add the quartered tomatoes; cook for about 20 minutes.
- Purée everything in a blender and incorporate the lobster jus.
Red pepper mousse
- Meanwhile, roast the red peppers in a 180° C (350° F) oven with a little garlic and thyme for about 30 minutes.
- Peel and purée them and incorporate the olive oil using a blender.
- Heat the mixture and emulsify with the whipped cream using an immersion blender or whisk; correct the seasoning.
Finishing
- On a plate, place a rectangle of baked puff pastry; cover with the tomato compote, followed by: crayfish tail, confit tomato wedge, Jabugo ham, asparagus, confit garlic clove, arthichoke, zucchini slice, 1/2 anchovy fillet. Pour the red pepper mousse on the side.
- Garnish with a basil leaf and a crayfish head.
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