Name: Crayfish Bisque (Bisque d’écrevisses)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Crème fraîche (optional); 1 cup (200 ml) dry white wine; 20 crayfish, 1 ½ oz. (40 g) apiece; Salt and pink peppercorns or piment d’Espelette; Scant ½ cup (100 ml) cognac; 1 ⅓ sticks (5 oz./150 g) unsalted butter; 1 sprig thyme; 1 ½ oz. (40 g) onion; ¼ bay leaf; 5 oz. (150 g) rice; 4 cups (1 liter) white stock, veal or chicken, divided; 1 ½ oz. (40 g) carrots

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
55 min

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Paul Bocuse

By Paul Bocuse

Published 2014

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Ingredients

20 crayfish, 1 ½ oz. (40 g) apiece

Gluten-free
Soup

Method

Carefully wash the rice and cook it in 3 cups (750 ml) of the stock. While it is cooking, chop the carrot and onion into very fine dice (a mirepoix). Gently melt a knob of butter in a sauté pan and sweat t