Fish and Seafood

Perch Quenelles with Crayfish
from the restaurant "RENDEZ-VOUS DE CHASSE" in Colmar

Ingredients to serve 6 people:


1 kg of perch
2 eggs
250 g crème fraîche
500 g crayfish

Ingredients for the sauce:
25 cl of white wine
4 cl of cognac
15 cl of cream
100 g of butter
50 g of shallots
1 clove of garlic
1/2 liter of water .

Lift the perch off in fillets, grind the fillets, mix in the eggs and crème fraîche until the forcemeat is smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Add the crayfish tails which have been boiled for 5 minutes. With two soup spoons mold the forcemeat into large dumplings and simmer them for 20 minutes. Half-cook the crayfish carcasses in olive oil with the shallots and the garlic, then flambé them with cognac. Add the white wine and the water and cook for 20 minutes. Pound the carcasses and strain. Add the cream and let reduce by three-quarters, then add in the butter. Season with salt and pepper.


Fillet of "Rouget Barbet" Fish Wrapped in Marrow, Cumin and Fried Thyme.
from Jean Yves SCHILLINGER, Colmar

Ingredients to serve 4 people:


4 fillets of "Rouget Barbet" fish
200 g of marrow
1 branch of thyme
1 dl of olive oil
20 g of cumin
sea salt
1 shallot
3 dl of red wine
1 dl of fish stock
2 dl of very concentrated beef stock
50 g of butter

Scale the fish, lift out the fillets and remove all small bones. Carefully remove the fillets of marrow . Cook the fish fillets in olive oil. Two-thirds of the way through the cooking, place the red snapper fillets in a baking dish and place the marrow on the fillets and finish cooking in the oven. Sauté the cumin in a dry non-stick pan and lightly fry the thyme in a small amount of olive oil. Place the cumin and the thyme on the marrow with a bit of sea salt. To prepare the sauce, half-cook the minced shallot. Deglaze the pan with pinot noir wine and let reduce by two-thirds. Add the fish stock and the concentrated beef stock and let reduce until the sauce coats the back of a spoon. Add butter and correct the seasonings.


Sole with Tokay Wine
from the restaurant "CHAMBARD" in Kaysersberg

Ingredients to serve 4 people:


500 g of sole cut in fillets of 4 cm
150 g of fresh mushrooms
chervil
4 dl of Tokay wine
4dl of fish stock
2 dl of crème fraîche
10 g of fresh butter

Reduce the Tokay wine with the mushrooms and crushed chervil, then moisten with the fish stock and reduce by half and let cook 10 minutes. Add the crème fraîche and cook for 5 minutes. Strain the sauce, add the butter and correct the seasonings. Poach the fillets of sole in well seasoned fish stock. Pour the sauce over the fillets of sole and garnish with carrots and celery, small chanterelle mushrooms and the julienne of truffles.



Assorted Raw Fish Marinated in Herbs
from the restaurant "ANTHON" in Obersteinbach

Ingredients to serve 8 people:


1 fillet of salmon
1 fillet of perch
1 fillet of monkfish
8 sea scallops
1 bunch of chives
1 bunch of dill
1 bunch of chervil
2 shallots
chopped parsley
30 cl of olive oil
10 cl of lemon juice
salt and pepper

LCut the fish into very thin slices. Lay out the slices, alternating between fish, so that the the color shades lower in tone. Season with salt and pepper. Prepare a vinaigrette with the olive oil and the lemon juice, incorperating the chives, dill, chervil, shallots and parsley which have all been very finely chopped. Just before presenting pour the vinaigrette over the fish and serve with hot toast.


Pike Fillet with Riesling Wine Served with Alsatian Noodles
from the restaurant "L'ARSENAL" in Strasbourg

Ingredients to serve 4 people:


800 g of pike fillet
30 cl of Riesling wine
50 cl of crème fraîche
20 cl of fish stock
20 g of butter
200 g of fresh noodles
several bread croutons
salt and pepper

Poach the noodles in salted water. Slice the pike fillet into escalopes and panfry them in butter. Put to the side. In the same pan deglaze with the Riesling and reduce by 1/3. Add the fish stock and reduce by 1/2. Add the crème fraîche, cook for 5 minutes and add in the butter. Correct the salt and pepper seasonings. Give the croutons a golden color. Place the noodle on the plate and sprinkle on some croutons. Place the pike fillets on the plate and pour the sauce over them. Serve very hot.


Lobster and Green Beans with Vermicelli and Pink Peppercorns
from the restaurant "LE CROCODILE" in Strasbourg

Ingredients to serve 4 people:


200 g of vermicelli
4 lobsters of 300g each
1 carrot
1 onion
5 cl of vinegar
salt and pepper
6 tomatoes
1 shallot
4 cl of olive oil
1 bay leaf
1 branch of thyme
1 orange
30 pink peppercorns
2 cloves of garlic
80 g of butter
200 g of green beans
chervil

Break the vermicelli and cook them in 2 cl of olive oil in a pan over low heat, stirring, until they are golden. Cover with water and add the garlic, salt and pepper and cook for 12 minutes. Dunk the tomatoes in boiling water for a minute. Peel the tomatoes, cut in two, press to remove the seeds and chop. Cook the tomatoes for 5 minutes in a casserole with 2 cl of olive oil, chopped shallot, bayleaf and thyme. Peel the orange and cook the zest for a minute. Squeeze the orange juice. Drain the vermicelli and then reheat with the orange juice, the pink peppercorns and butter. Cook the lobsters in a court bouillion with the vinegar, pepper, and rounds of carrot and onion for two minutes. Let the lobster cool down in its cooking liquid and then remove the lobster meat from its shell. Cook the green beans in salted water. On the plate place the vermicelli, the green beans and the lobster cut in two. Decorate with chervil and orange zest.


Roasted Bream Fish Stuffed with Crunchy Fennel,
Served with Aniseed Veal Juice
from the restaurant "LA VIEILLE ENSEIGNE" in Strasbourg

Ingredients to serve 2 people:


1 bream fish of 700 g - 800 g
4 firm tomatoes of 100 g each
400 g of fresh fennel
5 dried aniseed stars
olive oil
salt and pepper
50 g of butter
1/4 liter of veal stock
5 soup spoons of fish stock

Scale the bream fish, lift off the fillets and remove bones. Use the bones to make a fish stock. Remove the skins from the tomatoes and carve a circle out of the tops and empty with a spoon, so that they may be stuffed. Clean, chop and blanch the fennel for 5 minutes. Sauté the fennel in butter and season. Let cool before stuffing the tomatoes with the fennel. Close the tomato with its cover and sprinkle with olive oil. Cook the stuffed tomatoes in the oven for 7 to 8 minutes at 180° C. During this time brush the bream fillets with olive oil in a non-stick pan. Put the fillets to the side. Deglaze the pan with the fish stock, veal stock and aniseed stars. Let infuse for 5 minutes. Strain the sauce, add butter and correct the seasonings. Place the bream fillet with the tomatoes on each plate and pour on the sauce. Serve hot.