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Sauce Nantua

Courses: Sauces
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Mirepoix
1   Onion (medium)
1   Carrot (medium)
2   Shallots - French
1   Thyme
1/2   Bay leaf
2 teaspoons 10mlParsley - minced
  Salt - (to taste)
  Pepper - (to taste)
  Sauce
1/4 cup 59mlOil - olive
1 lb 454g / 16ozCrawfish - heads removed
1   Garlic - clove
2 cups 474mlWine - white
1/2 cup 118mlBrandy
4 cups 948mlStock - fish
1/2 cup 118mlPuree - tomato
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozButter
1/2 cup 31g / 1.1ozFlour
1 cup 237mlCream
  Brandy - (to taste)
  Salt - (to taste)
  Pepper - (to taste)
  Pepper - cayenne (to taste)

Recipe Instructions

Make a mirepoix of the onion, carrot, shallots, thyme, bay leaf, parsley, salt and pepper. Saute the mirepoix in 1/4 cup of olive oil until tender.

Add crawfish heads and garlic, cooking until the heads are red.

Add white wine, brandy, fish stock and tomato puree and simmer for 15 minutes, then strain, reserving the heads.

When the heads are dry, grind them in a grinder or food processor. Add the ground heads to the liquid and simmer again for 10 minutes.

Strain very well and discard the heads.

Make a roux from the butter and flour and add to the liquid to make a liaison. Finish the sauce with cream, brandy, salt, pepper and cayenne. Ladle over mousseline and garnish with crawfish tails.

Source:
Great Chefs of New Orleans, Tele-record Productions : Box 71112, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1983 : Chef Roland Huet, Christian's Restaurant, New Orleans

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