Oyster Bisque
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 batch
ingredients
directions
- Melt butter in a heavy kettle. Add the celery and shallots.
- Cook, stirring, for 10 minutes over moderately low heat until vegetables are soft. Pour in the strained liquid, milk and cream.
- Bring the mixture to a simmer.
- (Do not boil.) Beat the egg yolks lightly in a small bowl.
- Whisk the hot milk mixture into the egg yolks; stir the milk-egg mixture into the kettle. Add the oysters, salt and pepper.
- Simmer, stirring, until bisque is lightly thickened, and the edges of the oyste rs have curled.
- Do not let the bisque come to a boil.
- Transfer to a heated soup tureen and sprinkle with the paprika.
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