Crawfish tomato etouffee in puff pastry shells

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Onion; chopped fine
1 Green bell pepper; chopped fine
½ Stick; (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon All-purpose flour
1 pounds Can whole tomatoes in puree; drained, reserving 2 tablespoons puree, and chopped fine
½ cup Water
¼ teaspoon Cayenne; or to taste
1 pounds Bag frozen crawfish tail meat*; (preferably louisiana), thawed
½ cup Thinly sliced scallion greens
4 teaspoons White-wine vinegar
⅓ cup Olive oil
8 cups Mesclun; about 3/4 pound, rinsed and spun dry
8 Puff pastry shells; (recipe follows)

Directions

* available from January through June by mail order from Louisiana Premium Seafood,

P.O. Box 68, Palmetto, LA

71358, tel. (318) 989-0062

In a heavy skillet cook onion and bell pepper in butter, covered, over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until softened but not browned.

Sprinkle flour over onion and bell pepper and cook, stirring, 3 minutes.

Stir in tomatoes and reserved puree, water, and cayenne and simmer, stirring, until thickened slightly, about 1 minute. Stir in crawfish and heat mixture over moderate heat until just hot. Etouffee may be prepared up to this point 2 days ahead, cooled completely, uncovered, and chilled, covered. Reheat etouffee before proceeding. Stir in scallions and salt to taste.

In a large bowl whisk together vinegar and salt and pepper to taste and whisk in oil in a stream until emulsified. Add mesclun and toss well.

Spoon etouffee into warm pastry shells and arrange mesclun around shells.

Yield: 8 servings as a first course.

Notes: Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL9067 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "Angele and Jon Freeman" <jfreeman@...> on Mar 7, 1998

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