Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

----------------------------PATE---------------------------------
2 lb Trout, or other firm 1 c Flour
-- fleshed fish 1 c Milk
2 tb Shallots 3 oz Butter
1 md Lime, juice of 4 lg Eggs
1/2 c Wine, white 6 ea Ice cubes
2 ea Thyme, sprigs OR 2 ea Egg yolks
1/2 ts Thyme, dried 1 c Cream
1 ea Bay leaf 1 ds Nutmeg
1/2 c Oil, olive 1 ds Pepper, cayenne
Salt (to taste) 1 tb Tarragon
Pepper (to taste)

---------------------------SAUCE--------------------------------
4 ea Crabs, cleaned, not cooked Salt (to taste)
2 oz Butter Pepper (to taste)
2 tb Shallots, minced 1/4 ts Pepper, cayenne
2 ea Thyme, sprigs OR 1/2 c Cream
1/2 ts Thyme, dried 1 ea Bay leaf

Filet fish and put it into a marinade made of the shallots, lime
juice, white wine, thyme, bay leaf, olive oil, salt and pepper. Let
marinate an hour.

Grind all but two fo the filets. Cook the filets in the marinade
until just done, about 6 minutes.

Remove the filets, and reduce the marinade by half.

Heat the milk, butter and salt in a saucepan and add flour, all
at once.

Beat vigorously until the panade forms a ball and beat in egg
yolks off the heat, one at a time.

Add 1/4 cup of ground fish to a food processor and whir the
machine, then add 1/4 cup panade and a small piece of ice. When half
of the fish and panade are used, add eggs and a yolk. Continue
alternating the panade, fish and ice.

Add salt, pepper, and cayenne and then slowly add the cream
while the machine is running.

Add nutmeg and butter and finish with butter and tarragon.

Line a terrine with buttered paper (the chef used butter
wrappers) and put in half the ground fish mixture.

Lay the filets on this and top with the remaining mixture. Put
the terrine in a larger pan and add water halfway up the terrine.

Cook in a 350 F oven for 45 minutes or until the mousse is
puffed and brown.

Invert, trim and serve in slices with sauce.

Sauce: ======

Chop the crabs up in rough pieces and cook them in butter with
shallots, thyme and parsley until crabs turn color.

Add wine, salt, pepper, cayenne and cream. Heat to boiling, add
the bay leaf, and reduce until thick.

Strain into another pan and reduce again until the consistency of
whipping cream.

Source: Great Chefs of New Orleans, Tele-record Productions
: Box 71112, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1983
: Chef Chris Kerageorgiou, La Provence Restaurant, New Orleans

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