Post by April B. on Feb 26, 2003 13:30:04 GMT -6
Alligator Soup
Ingredients:
5 lbs. alligator bones and scrap meat
1 lb. choice alligator tail meat
1 lb. canned or precooked black beans
1 bunch celery, washed
5 large carrots, peeled
2 shallots
1 clove garlic
2 fresh limes
2 bay leaves
1/2 cup nonfat milk
1 tbsp. white truffle oil
1 lb. frozen puff pastry
Boil bones and scrap meat in a large stockpot. Chop the celery and carrots into 1" chunks, and slice the shallots thin. Sauté the shallots briefly until tender in a small knob of butter, then add the carrots and celery and sweat the vegetables down for five minutes. Add to the stock with any pan juices.
Add the precooked black beans, bay leaves and a grind of fresh pepper to the stock, and allow to boil down to about a third of its volume over moderate heat, two to three hours. Taste and adjust seasoning as necessary.
Prepare the alligator tail meat as per the basic preparation instructions - remove silverskin and tendons, use the Jacquard or other tenderizer, and pound. Cut into ½" chunks, and toss with the juice of two fresh limes and one crushed clove of garlic.
Allow the alligator meat to marinate while the stock reduces. When the broth is well reduced, strain and clarity to remove all solids. Cut decorative "gator tails" out of puff pastry and bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until puffy and brown. Gently poach the marinated gator pieces in one cup of the broth until barely done.
Just before serving, froth the nonfat milk with a cappuccino whisk and gently fold in the white truffle oil. Assemble the soup in decorative cups with the puff pastry tails, and spoon the white truffle foam over each serving. Light garnishes may be floated atop the truffle foam, such as crispy fried shallots.
;D
Ingredients:
5 lbs. alligator bones and scrap meat
1 lb. choice alligator tail meat
1 lb. canned or precooked black beans
1 bunch celery, washed
5 large carrots, peeled
2 shallots
1 clove garlic
2 fresh limes
2 bay leaves
1/2 cup nonfat milk
1 tbsp. white truffle oil
1 lb. frozen puff pastry
Boil bones and scrap meat in a large stockpot. Chop the celery and carrots into 1" chunks, and slice the shallots thin. Sauté the shallots briefly until tender in a small knob of butter, then add the carrots and celery and sweat the vegetables down for five minutes. Add to the stock with any pan juices.
Add the precooked black beans, bay leaves and a grind of fresh pepper to the stock, and allow to boil down to about a third of its volume over moderate heat, two to three hours. Taste and adjust seasoning as necessary.
Prepare the alligator tail meat as per the basic preparation instructions - remove silverskin and tendons, use the Jacquard or other tenderizer, and pound. Cut into ½" chunks, and toss with the juice of two fresh limes and one crushed clove of garlic.
Allow the alligator meat to marinate while the stock reduces. When the broth is well reduced, strain and clarity to remove all solids. Cut decorative "gator tails" out of puff pastry and bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until puffy and brown. Gently poach the marinated gator pieces in one cup of the broth until barely done.
Just before serving, froth the nonfat milk with a cappuccino whisk and gently fold in the white truffle oil. Assemble the soup in decorative cups with the puff pastry tails, and spoon the white truffle foam over each serving. Light garnishes may be floated atop the truffle foam, such as crispy fried shallots.
;D