Crab or Lobster Sauce

Name: Crab or Lobster Sauce
Ingredients: 450 g/1 lb fish heads, bones and skin; 1 onion, sliced; 300 ml/½ pint water; 150 ml/¼ pint single cream; salt and pepper; good pinch of paprika; ½ tablespoon flour; 25 g/1 oz butter; handful of parsley stalks; salt and pepper; 1 tablespoon sherry; 1 (198-g/7-oz) can crab or lobster meat; 1 (198-g/7-oz) can crab or lobster meat

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb fish heads, bones and skin
300 ml/½

Sauce
Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Put the fish heads, bones and skin into a saucepan with the water, onion and parsley. Bring the water to the boil, and boil rapidly for 10 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to 150 ml/¼ pint.