Pot au FEU of Crayfish and Red Mullet

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Kit Chapman

Published 1989

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Ingredients

  • 24 live crayfish
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 1

Method

Cook the live crayfish in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. Cool. Keep at least four whole for decoration; shell the remainder carefully. Keep all the shells.

Sauté the onion, carrot, celery, garlic and tomato in a little olive oil until just colouring. Add the tomato purée, then the crushed shells. Cover with water and white wine and simmer for 3—4 hours. Pass the liquid through a fi