Shellfish Stew

Recipe Cuisine: Tropical
Recipe Category: seafood
Recipe Serves: 2

Recipes Ingredients:

6 carrot slices
6 celery slices
2 fennel cups
1/2 tbsp. fennel stems, chopped
2 oz. sea bean
3 pt. Fish stock, clarified
1 bouquet garni
salt and pepper, to taste
1 (8 oz.) Florida lobster tail
2 oz. anise-flavored liqueur
2 mussels
2 large oysters
dill weed, chopped, to taste

Recipe Instructions:

Place Vegetables and stock in stock pot; heat to boiling. Add bouquet garni; season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat; simmer for 5 minutes. Add lobster tail and anise liqueur; simmer for 12 minutes. Shuck oysters; reserve Meat with juices. Clean mussels; remove beard. Remove lobster tail. Split shell; remove Meat intact. Reserve warm. Add mussels to stock pot; when cooked, remove Meat from shell and trim. Return with lobster to pot. Add oyster Meat and juice; add chopped dill. Adjust seasoning. Simmer for 30 seconds more.