Fabri's Michelin Shrimp Bisque Cooking
A premium dish featuring shrimp bisque made with shrimp heads for deep flavor, shrimp grilled with baking soda for maximum springiness, accompanied by romaine confit and lemon fluid gel.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ For those who want to learn the shrimp techniques and professional sauce secrets of authentic Michelin fine dining restaurants
- ⭐ For those preparing elaborate and elegant high-end plated dishes for a special anniversary or home party
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Ingredients needed 🛒1 servings
- 6~8 whole shrimp
- 1/2 stalk celery
- 1/4 red onion
- 1/2 tomato
- 1 mini romaine
- olive oil, as needed
- 2 slices prosciutto
- 1/2 lemon
- 2g agar powder
- glass noodles, as needed
- 1 tbsp butter
Recipe 🍳
- Remove the heads and shells from the shrimp and set them aside. Soak the shrimp meat in water with dissolved baking soda for 20 minutes to achieve a springy texture.
- In a pot, heat oil and sauté finely chopped celery and red onion with salt, then add chopped tomato and continue to sauté.
- Add the reserved shrimp heads and shells to the pot and stir-fry until fragrant. Then, crush the heads vigorously with a ladle to extract all the flavor, pour in vegetable stock, and simmer. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve to obtain a rich bisque sauce.
- Cut the mini romaine lengthwise into quarters, then place in a ziplock bag with olive oil, salt, and pepper to confit (oil-infuse). Then, pour some of the bisque stock into a pan and braise the romaine gently until tender.
- Completely remove the white pith from the lemon peel. Boil with water, sugar, and agar powder until bubbles appear, then pour onto a flat tray to set. Once set, blend the jelly in a blender to make a smooth lemon fluid gel.
- Place prosciutto between two oven sheets and bake until crispy. For the glass noodles, soak in water, then deep-fry briefly in hot oil until they puff up dramatically.
- Pat dry the springy shrimp meat. Make a deep slit along the back and butterfly them open.
- Heat butter and oil in a pan, then add the shrimp. Sear until golden, letting the meat curl up nicely.
- On a plate, lay the braised romaine, and pour the rich shrimp bisque sauce around it, just enough to cover the bottom.
- Place the grilled shrimp on top of the romaine, dot with lemon fluid gel, and garnish with crispy prosciutto and fried glass noodles to finish.
- Soak the shrimp meat in baking soda water, and boil the heads and shells with vegetables to make a rich bisque sauce.
- Confit the romaine in oil and braise in the sauce, blend the lemon jelly into a fluid gel, and prepare crispy prosciutto and glass noodles.
- Sear the butterflied shrimp, place on the romaine and sauce, and garnish with the prepared toppings and lemon gel for plating.
Cooking tips 💡
- Soaking the shrimp meat in a baking soda brine raises the pH, resulting in a uniquely springy texture that bursts like lobster when cooked.
- When making the bisque, crush the shrimp heads as forcefully as possible so that the innards and rich fats fully dissolve into the broth, creating a deep, savory flavor.
- For the fried glass noodles, the oil temperature must be high enough so they puff up instantly into a beautiful snowflake-like shape; check the temperature carefully.





