Best 6 Low Fat Lobster Bisque Recipes

LOW FAT LOBSTER BISQUE

Steps:

• Start with a large dutch oven and heat the butter and olive oil.
• Add the garlic and onion and cook them down for about 2 minutes. Add the celery, carrots, and spices and continue to cook them stirring frequently for about 5 minutes.
• yummy time- add the crushed tomatoes and white wine. Stir and simmer for about 8 minutes
• Slowly pour in the seafood broth and add the three bay leaves.
• Now here is the point where if you are steaming a lobster, do it now. And add the shells to the broth, keeping the lobster meat aside. I always save lobster shells in my freezer so never throw them away, especially if you have too many to fit in this pot.
• Remove the bay leaves and using a submersible blender, blend the liquid until smooth.
• Now, add the low-fat half and half and the lobster meat. stirring until thoroughly blended.
• If you have additional seafood such as scallops, you can add them now.
• Ladle into warmed bowls or if you are feeling carb-risky, use a bread bowl. Top off with some curly parsley and a few pieces of lobster meat.

LOBSTER BISQUE

Steps:

• Over medium heat, heat butter in a large pot.
• Add onion, carrots and celery. Cook for 6 to 7 minutes, or until soft.
• Add salt and pepper to taste and stir in garlic and tomato paste. Cook for 2 minutes or until tomato paste covers the vegetables.
• Sprinkle flour on top and cook for 1 minute.
• Add seafood stock and wine. Stir in with bay leaf and thyme.
• Reduce heat and let mixture simmer until liquid is reduced and flavors combine.
• Stir occasionally and let simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf and thyme then puree in a blender until smooth, in batches as needed.
• Bring heat back to medium-low. Add the lobster tails. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes or until cooked through.
• Garnish with chives and serve immediately.

LOW FAT LOBSTER BISQUE

Steps:

• Saute carrot,celery,leek in a nonstick pan using 1 tbsp olive oil, until tender. Puree vegetables with 1/2 cup of fish stock until a thick paste in texture, (will have fine chunks)set aside.
• Use other tbsp of olive oil to saute lobster tails in shells over medium heat until almost done, season with salt and pepper. Add minced garlic to pan with tails and remove from heat. Deglaze pan with 1/2 cup of fish stock and allow to cool.
• I use the pan that I sauteed the vegetables in to build my bisque. Add remaining 3 cups of fish stock to pan, heat on medium heat until bubbling. Add puree and tomato paste and whisk. Remove lobster meat from tails and cut into large pieces. Pour fish stock from lobster pan back into bisque and add lobster meat. Reduce heat to low, add milk and sour cream and whisk to combine.
• Remove from heat, garnish with parsley and serve immediately.

ANNIE'S LOBSTER BISQUE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the chopped onion, and cook until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the white wine and sherry. Cook and stir until the liquid has reduced by half. Sprinkle in the flour while stirring to ensure there are no lumps. Once a thick paste has formed, stir in the tomato paste, then pour in the chicken broth and milk. Season with cayenne pepper, black pepper, seafood seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, and green onion.
• Cook and stir over medium heat until the bisque begins to simmer, about 15 minutes. Stir in the lobster meat, and reheat before serving.

LOBSTER BISQUE

Steps:

• Stock: In a large pot lined with a steamer basket, bring 1 inch salted water to a boil. Steam lobster tails, top-side down, until just cooked through and tails curl under, 6 to 8 minutes for small tails and 8 to 10 minutes for large. Transfer to a plate and let cool. When cool enough to handle, use kitchen shears to cut through underside of tails. Remove meat from shells; reserve shells. Run a paring knife along back of each tail and remove vein. Cut meat into bite-size pieces; cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high. Add shells and cook until fragrant and deep red in color, about 4 minutes. Add fish stock, wine, and 6 cups water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer, uncovered, skimming impurities from surface, until reduced to 6 cups, 40 to 45 minutes. Strain stock into a large liquid-measuring cup or heatproof bowl. Wipe out pot. (Stock can be stored in airtight containers in the freezer up to 3 months.)
• Bisque: In same pot, melt 4 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat. Add fennel, onion, and garlic and season with salt and pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, tomato paste, thyme, bay leaf, paprika, and cayenne; cook 1 minute. Add brandy, sherry, and strained lobster stock; season generously with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and simmer 30 minutes. Remove thyme and bay leaf.
• Working in batches, puree soup in a blender until smooth. Return soup to pot. Let cool 15 minutes. Whisk together cream and cornstarch, then stir into bisque. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, until thickened slightly, 1 to 2 minutes. Adjust seasoning as desired.
• Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add lobster meat and cook until just warmed through, 2 to 3 minutes. Pour soup into bowls and serve, topped with lobster, fennel fronds, and a squeeze of lemon, if desired. Soup can be made in advance and stored in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 2 days.

SPEEDY LOBSTER BISQUE

Steps:

• Melt margarine in 3qt saucepan over low heat. Cook onion in butter, stirring occassionally, until tender.
• Stir in flour, parsley, salt, and pepper. Cook, stiring constantly with whisk, until mixture is bubbly; remove from heat.
• Stir in milk, broth and cream. eat to boiling, whisking constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute.
• Stir in lobster. Heat to boiling; reducee heat. Simmer about 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until lobster is white.
• **Have a favorit fish other than lobster? Us that instead.