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Recipe request - redfish with crab cream sauce

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tx4guns
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I don't know what I posted before, but cream sauce is pretty basic. Do a redfish on the halfshell (olive oil on the fish, season w/ Cajun, Kosher salt, lemon pepper, grill 2-3 minutes each side until it flakes, flesh side first).

Cream Sauce:

Ingredients:
•2 tablespoons butter
•2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
•1 cup cream or half and half
•salt
•white pepper
•1/2 cup crab meat
•Few tablespoons dry white wine, a few teaspoons roasted garlic, Parmesan cheese.

Preparation:
Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and stir until mixture is well blended. Gradually stir in hot milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sauce begins to boil and thickens. Simmer, stirring frequently, over very low heat for 5 minutes. Stir in cream and wine, if using. Season with salt and pepper to taste, garlic, and crab. Makes about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of medium thick sauce.

It's VERY important that you don't scald the sauce, so stir or whisk it slowly the whole time it's cooking and when it's done, take it off the fire! If it gets too thick, just add a little milk to thin it out.

Pour sauce over redfish filet prior to serving.

You can also add baby shrimp, clams, scallops, or crawfish along with a dash of Cajun mustard and cajun spice to this sauce to make a Pontchartrain sauce. OOOOH WEEEE!
FIDO*98*
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Another option would be to simply reduce the cream to thicken it and not worry about the roux. A tsp of red curry paste and a sprinkling of chives (fresh and not to be mistaken for green onion) would round things out nicely
Campfire Soul
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Cream sauce for fish is as follows.

Sauté a bit of diced shallot (or onion) till translucent.
Add chopped garlic for just a minute... don't let anything brown.
Add roughly 1/4 cup of wine and reduce until it's almost dry. If you have a gas stove it will ignite. It won't hurt you nor burn your house down. DO NOT grab a pan with flames in it and pull it off the burner unless you want a lap-full of ignited wine.
Once the wine is cooked down to a syrupy consistency, ad a squirt of lemon juice and about 3X as much cream as you want.
Reduce it down until it's nice and thick.
Then add you crab and season with salt and pepper... maybe a bit of paprika.
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