Fruits De Mer With Celery And Tomato Recipes

FRUITS DE MER PLATTER

Steps:

• Make the court-bouillon: Prepare a large ice-water bath. Fill a 3-gallon pot with cold water. Add wine, salt, lemons, paprika, coriander seeds, celery seed, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil.
• Cook seafood: Add lobsters head first to court-bouillon. Cover; return to a boil. Cook 10 minutes. Using tongs, transfer lobsters to ice-water bath. Add crab legs to court-bouillon. Return to a boil; cook 8 minutes. Transfer lobsters to a plate; immediately add crab legs to ice-water bath, adding more ice as needed. Add shrimp to court-bouillon. Return to a boil; cook until shrimp are pink and opaque, about 3 minutes. Add shrimp to ice-water bath; let crab legs and shrimp cool completely. Transfer to a plate.
• Separate tails, claws, and knuckles from lobsters; using kitchen shears or a knife, split tails lengthwise through shells, then halve crosswise. Crack claws and knuckles so that meat can be easily removed. Separate crab legs at knuckles. Using kitchen shears, cut away a piece of shell so meat can be easily removed. Peel and devein shrimp, leaving tails intact. Transfer lobster pieces, crab legs, and shrimp to a rimmed baking sheet; wrap tightly in plastic. Refrigerate until ready to serve, or overnight.
• Assemble the platter: Just before serving, fill a 3-tier glass serving stand with crushed ice. Shuck the oysters and clams; set flat on bottom tier so that juices do not spill. Arrange lobsters and shrimp on middle tier. Put caviar into a small bowl, and set in center of top tier; arrange crab legs around caviar. Serve with toast points, the cocktail sauce, saffron mayonnaise, mignonette sauce, and lemon wedges.

FRUTTI DI MARE

Steps:

• Pour olive oil into a large pan over medium heat. Add garlic and crushed red pepper; cook until fragrant, 30 to 40 seconds. Pour in white wine and increase heat to medium-high. Let wine reduce by half, about 8 minutes. Add clam juice and reduce heat to medium-low. Pour in marinara, basil, and salt. Let simmer to let flavors marry, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook linguine at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, about 11 minutes. Drain and set aside.
• Add shrimp, scallops, lobster, mussels, and clams to the sauce and cook until clams and mussels open, scallops are opaque, shrimp is pink, and lobster is red on the outside and opaque on the inside, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Toss linguine in sauce until it's thick enough to coat the noodles (it will still be a relatively thin sauce), about 3 minutes.
• Plate noodles and load up with seafood and sauce. Garnish with parsley, and serve immediately with Parmesan cheese.

PLATEAU DE FRUITS DE MER WITH TWO SAUCES

Steps:

• Stir together vinegar, shallot, cucumber, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl for mignonette. Stir together ketchup, horseradish, and orange zest in another small bowl for cocktail sauce. Refrigerate sauces until chilled, at least 1 hour, and up to 1 day.
• Place crushed ice on a tray, and arrange seafood, sauces, and lemon wedges on top.

LINGUINE AI FRUTTI DI MARE

Steps:

• Boil water in a large pot. Heat oil in a large sauté pan over medium heat. Cook garlic until it sizzles. Add red pepper flakes to taste; cook 1 minute. Add wine and clams; cover. Raise heat to medium-high; cook 5 minutes. Add linguine to boiling water. Cook until al dente. Uncover sauté pan; simmer 1 minute more. Add tomato sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Add rest of seafood. Cook, stirring, until clams and mussels open, about 3 minutes. Toss with linguine. Add parsley; toss. Divide among 4 bowls.

FRUITS DE MARE

Steps:

• In a large pot over high heat, boil 2 quarts salted water. Fill second pot with ice water; set aside. While waiting for water to boil, to a medium bowl, add and mix to combine 1 cup olive oil, vinegar, 1 teaspoon Dijon, lemon juice, and tarragon. Set aside. Finely dice celery, fennel and red onion. Set aside. Toss shrimp in boiling water. Turn off heat and let shrimp steep for 3 minutes, then strain and immediately plunge into ice water to cool. Cut into 1/4-inch pieces. Place crab, scungilli, and shrimp in a large bowl and lightly toss with celery, fennel, and red onion. Cover with vinaigrette and toss. Season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate.
• Slice calamari into 1/4-inch pieces and steep in buttermilk. To make aioli, place garlic, 1 tablespoon Dijon, egg yolks, anchovies and chili in food processor and pulse while slowly streaming in 1 cup olive oil. When the mixture becomes thick and smooth, add lemon zest and 1 teaspoon black pepper. Salt, to taste, and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Combine the 2 flours in a medium bowl. Add salt and pepper, to taste. In a large Dutch oven or heavy bottomed pot, heat oil to 375 degrees F. Lightly dredge the calamari through the flour. Shake off any excess flour and place immediately in fryer. Cook until crispy and golden brown. Remove from oil and let drain on a paper towel lined plate.
• To Serve: Round a serving spoonful of salad in the center of each plate. Scatter a few pieces of calamari over each scoop and top with a dollop of aioli. Garnish with baby arugula.

MOUSSELINE DE FRUIT DE MER

Steps:

• For the filling Warm a saute pan with a small amount of olive oil. Take the diced shrimp, finely diced elbow lobster meat, and diced sea scallop, and sear lightly. Remove the remaining lobster meat from the shell and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces. Reserve this lobster meat and the whole shrimp and scallops in the refrigerator. Add the diced vegetables and saute for 1 minute. Deglaze with the vermouth. Bring the ingredients to boil and simmer for 1 minute. Strain, reserving the seafood and vegetables and the liquid separately. Return the liquid to the saute pan. Add the heavy cream and a small amount of beurre-manie, and bring to a boil. Add back the seafood and vegetable mixture. Season with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and the chopped tarragon. Set aside.
• For the Fish Mousse: Put the chopped fish in a food processor and run it at high speed until the fish has a very tight consistency. Now add the egg while the machine is running and then the heavy cream. Run until the fish mousse has a shiny and bright consistency. Add salt, pepper and cayenne pepper for seasoning, set in cool place.
• Butter 6 small stainless steel cups, 1 1/2-inch diameter and approximately 2 inches deep. Take a small amount of fish mousse in pastry bag with a small opening, and coat the bottom and the inner sides of the buttered cup with a thin layer of the fish mousse repeat 5 more times with the remaining cups. Now take the seafood filling and fill up almost to the very top of the cup. Take a small amount of fish mousse and cover the opening with it. Set aside.
• Assembly: Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Fill a roasting pan that will fit all 6 molds in it, halfway with hot water. Place the molds in the water and place in the oven. Bake for approximately 8 to 10 minutes.
• While timbale is baking, warm a frying pan, add a small amount of extra-virgin olive oil and quickly saute the reserved shrimp, scallops, and lobster. Place warm sauerkraut in center of warmed plates, set the seafood around it, garnish with the diced tomatoes and cooked vegetable pearls. Place the fish mousse timbales upside down in the center of the sauerkraut, remove the stainless steel cup. Garnish with caviar and quail eggs. Mix the champagne sauce and spoon it around the seafood. Finish with chervil and chopped chives. Serve immediately.
• In a small bowl, mix together the butter and flour until they are well combined and a paste is formed.
• Sweat the diced onions in small amount of butter without giving color. Set the sauerkraut atop and add the Champagne, water, bouquet garni, bay leaf, juniper berries and seasoning. Cook on low heat for approximately 15 minutes. Set aside in warm place.
• Sweat the shallots with the peppercorns in a small amount of butter in a saute pan, without giving any color to the shallots. Deglaze with the vermouth and the champagne. Add the parsley stems and reduce down to 1/3. Add the chicken or fish stock, and reduce down again to 1/3. Now add the heavy cream and mix in the butter. Simmer the sauce for 1 minute and season with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and lemon juice. Set aside in warm place.

FRUITS DE MER

Steps:

• For the periwinkles and crabs: place the periwinkles in a small saucepan and all the crabs in another small saucepan. Cover both with cold water, add 1/4 teaspoon salt to each pan, cover and bring to a boil. Remove pans from the heat and set aside until shellfish is cool. Refrigerate until cold.
• For the crayfish and langoustines: drop the crayfish and langoustines into separate small saucepans of boiling salted water, cover and simmer for1 minute. Remove the shellfish from the pans and place in a bowl until cool. Refrigerate until cold.
• For the cockles and mussels: in each of two small saucepans, combine half the wine and half the shallots and heat to boiling. Add the cockles to one pan and the mussels to the other pan. Cover and steam about 2 minutes or until the cockles and mussels open. Remove the shellfish from the pans and place in separate bowls. Refrigerate until cold.
• For the lobsters: heat a large saucepan of salted water to boiling, add the lobsters, cover and cook 8 minutes or until shells are bright red and tails curl around the bodies. Remove lobsters to a cutting board and split lengthwise. Refrigerate until cold.
• To serve, arrange cooked seafood on platter with the oysters and clams and intersperse with the lemon wedges. Serve with your favorite herb mayonnaise.

TOMATO, APPLE AND CELERY JUICE

Steps:

• Push the tomatoes , celery, ginge and apple through the chute of a juicer.
• Fill a glass with ice cubes and pour the juice over and stir with a celery stick.

FRUITS DE MER WITH CELERY AND TOMATO

Steps:

• Wash the celery. Strip off the leaves and coarsely chop them up. Cut the stalks into thin pieces.
• Pour some oil from the tomatoes into a deep pan. Cut the sun-dried tomatoes into thin strips. Cut the garlic into fine slivers.
• Heat the oil and fry the celery for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and tomato strips and fry for another 1 minute.
• Add the sieved tomatoes and crush the stock tablet and stir for 1 minute till the mixture begins to simmer.
• Add the fruits-de-mer and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Cut the French-bread in coarse diagonal slices.
• Serve the fruits-de-mer in deep bowls and garnish with the chopped up celery leaves.