Bisque sauce is a simple dish that you can cook yourself by spending a little time. The main problem of its preparation is the search for quality products, as well as in compliance with all proportions. This sauce is ideal for fish and seafood. As a side dish, serve mashed potatoes. So how to make bisque sauce?
Whiskey recipe
To prepare a bisque sauce, you will need:
- 500 g of peeled carrots.
- 300 g onions.
- 300 g of tomato paste.
- 150 g leeks.
- 150 g celery.
- 250 g of fresh tomato.
- 30 g of sugar.
- 500 g shells of shrimp.
- 100 ml of vegetable-based oil.
- 20 g butter from cream.
- Pepper, bay leaf, salt.
- 15 g of peeled garlic.
- 50 ml of whiskey.
- 2 liters of water.
How to cook
All vegetables are recommended to fry. In such a mixture, crushed shrimp shells must be added. Fry foods for another 10 minutes, stirring regularly. You need to add tomato paste to the products. Stew everything for 6 minutes. Pour water into a container with sauce. After 20 minutes, add whiskey and spices to the mass. It is recommended to cook the sauce for another 5 minutes. After that, remove the container with mass from the heat and leave for half an hour. The mixture should be infused. At the end, the mass should be wiped through a sieve.
Recipe Recommendations
To get a delicious shrimp shell sauce from shrimp shells, you must follow a few rules:
- Before cooking, it is recommended to fry the shells on a dry baking sheet in the oven.
- Stew the vegetables until fully cooked.
- The sauce should be thick.
- To easily rub the mass through a sieve, it is recommended that you first beat it in a blender. At the same time, shells should not be taken out. In a sieve, put gauze, previously folded in 2-3 layers. Pour the mass into a sieve and gently wipe.
- If the sauce after wiping turned out to be liquid, then you need to put it on the fire and evaporate a little. In this case, the hostess should regularly mix the mass.
- Ready sauce can be frozen. It is perfectly kept. To make the base sauce, you need to add cream. The percentage of their fat content should be from 33 to 38. Freezing with cream is not recommended.
Bisque sauce: brandy option
To prepare the dish you will need:
- 1 kg shell of shrimp.
- 250 g of tomatoes in their own juice.
- 1 head of onion.
- 1 carrot.
- 1 stalk of sage.
- 2 stalks of celery.
- 2 tbsp. spoons of brandy.
- 50 ml of olive oil.
- Black pepper and salt.
Cooking steps
To prepare a bisque sauce, wash the shells of the shrimp and then chop them. Celery, onions and carrots must be peeled, washed, chopped and fried in oil from olives with sage. To the resulting mass add chopped shrimp shells, spices and salt. Fry foods for another 2 minutes.
After the specified time, brandy should be added to the mixture. Alcohol should evaporate completely. After that, add water and tomatoes to your sauce in your own juice. Bring the mass to a boil, and then simmer for 40 minutes. Ready bisque sauce must be removed from the heat and left in a closed container. The mixture should stand for a while. In conclusion, it is recommended to grind the mass in a blender.