Elegant Seafood Bisque

5.00 (17)
⏱ 35 mins 🍽 8 serving(s) 🏷 < 60 Mins

This luxurious bisque delivers a wonderfully rich flavour, brimming with a generous mix of seafood including shrimp, crab, salmon, clams and cod. It's a lower-carb version, achieved without potatoes, and can be further adapted using instant flour. The method creates a velvety base before gently cooking the seafood and finishing with a touch of sherry. It's an elegant dish perfect for a special dinner, ready in well under an hour.

Elegant Seafood Bisque

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup finely minced shallot
  • 1/2 lb butter
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 quart water
  • 1 tablespoon chicken base
  • 1 (14 ounce) can baby clams, with juice
  • 1/2 lb uncooked shrimp, cleaned, shelled, deveined
  • 1/3 lb cod, boneless, leave in one piece
  • 1/3 lb salmon, skinless, boneless, leave in one piece
  • 2/3 lb cooked crabmeat, chopped
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup half-and-half
  • 1/2 cup dry sherry
  • salt and pepper

Method

  1. Cook the finely minced shallots in butter until they become tender.
  2. Mix in the flour and whisk continuously for 5 minutes over low heat, then set this mixture aside.
  3. Boil one quart of water, then stir in the chicken base, clams, crab, shrimp and the whole pieces of salmon and cod.
  4. Once boiling again, reduce the heat and let it simmer gently for 5 minutes.
  5. Pour the contents through a strainer, keeping both the stock and the cooked seafood separate.
  6. Blend the reserved shallot mixture into the strained stock.
  7. Pour the heavy cream and half and half into the pot, bring it to a simmer on low heat and cook until it thickens, about 5 minutes.
  8. Break the salmon and cod into chunks and return all the seafood to the soup pot.
  9. Stir in the dry sherry and warm everything through for no more than 3 minutes.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium1053200 mg

Recipe details

Category< 60 Mins
AuthorMNLisaB