Clean and cut the leek, celery, onion and carrot into julienne.
Put the vegetables with the fish stock and tomato puree in a
soup kettle. Let it boil for about twenty minutes.
Lower the heat and add the fresh salmon slices. Season with
pepper, salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper.
When the salmon is cooked, blend the soup and press it
through a sieve. Make a roux of butter and flour and add the
bisque spoon by spoon. The result should be a thick, fibre-free
soup. Mix cream and saffron and stir this into the soup off the
heat.
Chop smoked salmon. Fry croutons in olive oil. Pick the
watercress.
ingredients - info
fresh salmon
smoked salmon
leek
onion
carrot
celery
fish fumet
cream
butter
plain flour
In the soup plate: a dash of Cognac, a dollop of whipped
cream, a few crunchy croutons, shreds of smoked salmon and
tufts of watercress. Finish off with dried seaweed, if available.
Serve the plates as in the picture and pour the soup from a
coffee pot at the table.
salmon bisque with saffron
saffron
tomato puree
chives
cayenne pepper
salt & pepper
dried seaweed
stale bread
olive oil
cognac
watercress