Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Fennel Bisque

Fennel Bisque.

You can cook Fennel Bisque using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Fennel Bisque

1. Prepare 8 of large Prawn/langoustine shells.
2. Prepare 1 of fennel head.
3. Prepare 1 of carrot.
4. It's 1 stick of celery.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of smoked paprika.
6. Prepare 1 of onion.
7. It's 3 cloves of garlic.
8. Prepare to taste of Cream.
9. You need 100 g of Butter.
10. Prepare of Brandy.
11. You need of White wine.
12. You need of For mayonnaise:.
13. It's 2 of eggs yolks.
14. It's of Olive oil.
15. Prepare to taste of Lemon juice.
16. You need to taste of Vinegar.
17. You need 1 pinch of saffron.
18. You need 1 clove of finely grated garlic (optional).

Fennel Bisque instructions

1. If poaching the shellfish for separate meal reserve cooking water. Heat water until gently bubbling. Melt butter in shallow pan and fry shells until aromatic (a couple of minutes). Add shells to water with whole celery and carrot..
2. Deglaze frying pan with white wine then add onion, fennel and garlic until softened. Then add to the stock and allow to cook down for 1 hour..
3. Meanwhile make mayonnaise. Very slowly whisk olive oil into egg yolk so as not to curdle it. Add about 4x oil to egg yolk. Grind saffron to a powder and add to the mayonnaise. Then add lemon, vinegar salt and pepper to taste and garlic is desired. Store in fridge until serving..
4. Add stock to blender (remove carrot unless sweeter broth is desired). Then strain through cheese cloth and sieve. Heat brandy to drive off alcohol and then add strained stock to pan. Add cream, lemon juice and paprika to taste. Serve with toast and mayonnaise..