Cream of Watercress and Mulataga Yabby Soup

Chicken Stock 1 litre
Fish Stock 1 litre
Mulataga Yabby Shells 300gm
Onion 100gm
Celery 40gm
Garlic 30gm
Leek 80gm
Ginger 20gm
White Wine 250ml
Noilly Prat 200ml
Flour 500gm
Butter 150gm
Watercress Puree
Cream 200ml
Watercress 200gm
Spinach 50gm
Mulataga Yabby Tails 4 peeled
Watercress Leaves 3
Mulataga Yaby Head 1

Cook Mulataga Yabby in boiling salted water for 4-5 minutes then plunge into ice water to stop cooking process.

Peel yabbys, keeping all shells. In a warm large pot add butter and sweat off ingredients in brackets with lid until soft then add flour and cook for further 5 minutes then add alcohol and finally stocks. Cook soup base for another hour then pass through a fine strainer.

Reduce cream down by half then allow to cool. Cook watercress and spinach very quickly in boiling water (10 seconds) then cool in ice water. Drain thoroughly. When cold squeeze out excess water. Then add to reduced cream and puree in food processor. When very fine pass through a fine strainer.

Heat soup base.

Arrange yabby tails in soup bowl then add watercress puree to boiling soup base. Adjust seasoning. If possible blend soup base with bamix hand blender till light and foamy.

Pour soup into bowls and garnish with watercress and Mulataga yabby head.

Mulataga Aquaculture

P O Box 343, Gosnells, Western Australia 6110

email: mulataga@nettrek.com.au

Tel: (618) 9455 2199 Fax: (618) 9455 2198

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