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Rich Shrimp Bisque with Lobster Base

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Comfort food at its best. This is a quick and easy recipe for a great rich shrimp bisque with lobster seasoning. Combine it with garlic bread and salad and you have a real crowd pleaser.

Ingredients

  • 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 whole Medium Onion, Chopped
  • 4 stalks Celery, Chopped
  • 4 Tablespoons Butter
  • 4 Tablespoons Flour
  • 6 cups Water
  • 10 whole Shallots (Green Onions), Chopped
  • 1 Tablespoon Lobster Base
  • ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
  • 1 pound Shrimp, Peeled And Deveined
  • 2 cups Heavy Cream

Preparation

1. Saute onions and celery in oil over medium heat in large stockpot.
2. When onions become transparent, reduce heat and add butter, flour, water, shallots (green onions), lobster base and pepper.
3. Continue to cook on low heat setting for approximately 20 minutes. Stir until flour has sufficiently thickened the bisque. Do not bring to a boil.
4. Add shrimp and simmer until they become a pink/rose color and begin to firm, approximately 10 minutes.
5. Add cream and continue to stir for 5 minutes.
6. Salt and pepper to taste.

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NOTE: Confirm that your guests do not have allergies to shellfish before serving.

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Brent McMasters on 2.19.2012

This recipe could also benefit from the addition of 8 ounces of white wine. I give this recipe one mit without the addition of another 2.5 tablespoons of lobster base and 8 ounces of white wine. It gets 4 mits after those additional ingredients have been added.

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Brent McMasters on 2.19.2012

Upon printing this recipe, I immediately thought to myself, “1 tablespoon of lobster base is not going to be even close to enough to give this bisque flavor.” Sure enough, when the bisque was completed, it lacked any flavor whatsoever. I’m sorry, but you need more than one tablespoon of lobster base to make a large pot of soup taste like a seafood bisque. I added another 2 and a half tablespoons of lobster base, and it probably could have taken a full 4 tablespoons. Once that was done, the bisque was…well…just OK. Nothing to write home about. Without the extra base that I added, it reminded me of Bar Harbor canned lobster bisque…it tasted like a hot, steaming bowl of fresh air. After the additional base was added…it really wasn’t worth the time and effort, or the expense of the lobster base.

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