Lobster potpie.
You can cook Lobster potpie using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Lobster potpie
- Prepare 1 1/2 qt of heavy cream, or split with half&half, reduced by 25%.
- It's 1 pint of lobster stock, reduced by half.
- You need 1 of potato, cut in cubes and blanched.
- Prepare 1 of large carrot, cut in cubes and blanched.
- Prepare 1/2 of fennel, cut in cubes and blanched.
- It's 10 oz of chopped lobster meat.
- It's to taste of S&P.
- It's 1 sheet of puff pastry, rolled to 1/16" thick and cut into 4 cir.
- You need 1 of egg for wash*.
- Prepare 2 tsp of thyme, off stems.
- It's 1 1/2 C of asparagus, chopped (instead of potato).
- Prepare of Cornstarch (to thicken).
Lobster potpie instructions
- Preheat oven to 500°. Whisk the reduced cream and lobster stock together to make sauce..
- In a pot, heat sauce with vegetables and lobster. Season to taste with S&P and add thyme..
- Place equal amounts of sauce with lobster and vegetables into 4 12oz gratin dishes. Place rolled puff pastry on top and brush with egg wash. Place in the oven for 7 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove and serve..
- Egg wash: mix egg with 1 tsp water or milk and a pinch of salt..
- I used 1-2C chopped asparagus instead of the potato. I also added 3 tsp cornstarch (dissolved in cold water) because I felt it is to liquidy..