Mousse froide de Crevettes (Cold Shrimp Mousse)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Raw shrimps
- A little butter
- Mirepoix from the cooking of the shrimps
- Velouté
- 2 decilitres fish jelly
- 2 and a half decilitres cream
- White jelly
- Half-set jelly
Instructions
- Cook raw shrimps as for bisque, and shell a part of the tails to line the mould.
- Pound the rest with the debris, a little butter and the Mirepoix from the cooking, then pass through a fine sieve.
- Add to the purée obtained a quarter of Velouté and 2 decilitres of fish jelly per 500 grammes of purée, and give it a boil.
- At the moment of moulding, complete with the cream, only half whipped.
- Line a low tube mould with white jelly and embed it on ice.
- Line the bottom with the shrimp tails dipped in half-set jelly, then finish filling the mould with the prepared Mousse.
- Turn out at the moment on a folded napkin.