Fruits de Mer

Name: Fruits de Mer (Fruits of the Sea)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ¼ pound bay scallops, or sea scallops, quartered; 1 pound raw shelled and deveined shrimp; 3 raw lobster tails, or 1 pound; 1 cup sliced mushrooms; ¼ pound butter; ½ cup vermouth or white wine; 1 clove garlic, minced; 4 tablespoons flour; 2 tablespoons sherry; 2 tablespoons crème fraîche, or whipping cream; Coquilles (shells) or pastry shells; 3 tablespoons sherry; 1 tablespoon Cognac; Salt and white pepper to taste; 1 cup small fresh oysters; 2 cups light cream

Fruits of the Sea

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Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Fruits de mer, or fruits of the sea, is a harvest of shellfish. It may contain all of those listed or only some of them, depending upon what you have available, or how expensive you would like to make the dish. Perhaps the one requirement is that it should contain both crustaceans and mollusks, and not just one or the other. This is one of my favorite recipes.

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Fish course
Pescatarian

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