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Snow crab salad with avocados and asparagus

Ingredients:

  • 2 avocados
  • 150g fresh-cooked snow crabmeat
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • Zest of 1/2 lemon
  • 4 tablespoons hazelnut oil
  • 150g green asparagus
  • 50g dried tomatoes
  • Chopped parsley
  • Chopped chervil
  • Chopped chive
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon

Method:

  • Wash carefully the asparagus and blanch them in salted boiling water for 2 minutes.
  • Cool the asparagus and cut them, the tomatoes and the avocados in small dices.
  • In a bowl, mix the zest, oil, vegetables and herbs. Then add avocados and the lemon juice. Mix well.
  • In a stainless ring, fill the preparation and drop the crabmeat on top.
  • Season with salt, pepper and a drop of oil.
  • Remove the ring, decorate with chive oil or balsamic vinegar and a fine bouquet of lettuce

Seafood Risotto 'à la ratatouille'

Ingredients:

Ratatouille Ingredients:

  • 100g red pepper
  • 100g yellow pepper
  • 50g slow-roasted tomato
  • 50g fennel bulb
  • 50g yellow zucchini
  • 50g green zucchini
  • 60g chopped onion

Risotto Ingredients:

  • 40cl lobster stock
  • 60cl poultry stock
  • 10cl white wine
  • 90g butter
  • Few filaments of saffron, chopped parsley
  • 200g Arborio rice
  • 4 big scallops
  • 4 shrimps
  • 8 mussels
  • 8 clams

Method:

  • Cut ratatouille's vegetables into small dices and stir-fry into olive oil.
  • Add the Arborio rice while stirring.
  • Pour the white wine.
  • Cook until dry.
  • Pour lobster and poultry stocks.
  • Let simmer while stirring until the rice is cooked.
  • Then add butter, oil, saffron and chopped parsley.
  • Fry scallops and shrimps. Steam mussels and clams.
  • Depose risotto in plates and garnish with seafood.

Chocolate cake with fruit coulis

Ingredients:

  • 225 g dark chocolate
  • 225 g butter
  • 180 g sugar
  • 5 eggs

Method:

  • In the top pan of a double boiler, melt the chocolate with the butter.
  • Add the sugar and set aside to cool slightly.
  • Add the eggs one at the time with a wooden spoon.
  • Pour the mixture in a squared mould and bake in the oven (preheat at 350°F) for 20 minutes.
  • Let cool the cake for the night and cut it in rectangular portion.
  • Serve the cake with one or two different fruit coulis

Suggestion - Fruit coulis:

  • In the bowl of a culinary robot, reduce in puree 3 cups of fruit (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries or others) with 1/3 cup of sugar.
  • If the puree is too thick, you may add a little bit of water or orange juice to make a softened coulis.

 

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Auberge Lac-à-l'Eau-Claire
500, Lac-à-l'Eau-Claire C.P. 210
St-Alexis-des-Monts (Québec, Canada)
J0K 1V0

Printed on: Friday, September 3, 2010
Phone: 819 265-3185
Fax: 819 265-3187
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Website: http://www.lacaleauclaire.com/