Maine Lobster Bisque

Name: Maine Lobster Bisque
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cooked lobster tails, shells reserved, meat diced; 1 onion, diced; 2 stalks celery, diced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 3 tbsp butter; 3 tbsp tomato paste; 4 tbsp plain flour; 1 cup dry sherry; 4 cups seafood or fish stock; 1 cup cream; 1 tsp thyme; pinch cayenne; salt and pepper to taste

A rich, luxurious New England bisque with fresh lobster and sherry. Reducing the sherry by half before the stock goes in concentrates its flavour into the bisque instead of leaving it thin and boozy.

Total time

55 min

Prep

20 min

Cook

35 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

2cooked lobster tails, shells reserved, meat diced

1onion, diced

2 stalkscelery, diced

2 clovesgarlic, minced

3 tbspbutter

3 tbsptomato paste

4 tbspplain flour

1 cupdry sherry

4 cupsseafood or fish stock

1 cupcream

1 tspthyme

pinchcayenne

salt and pepperto taste

Instructions

Sauté onion, celery and garlic in butter 5 minutes.

Add tomato paste and flour. Cook 2 minutes.

Add sherry and reduce by half.

Add stock and thyme. Simmer 20 minutes.

Blend smooth. Stir in cream and lobster. Season.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

262

Protein

4.2g

Fat

22g

Carbs

16.9g

Fiber

2.9g

Sodium

43mg

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