Seafood Sausage

SEAFOOD SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Melt 2 teaspoons butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute shallots until soft and sweetened, about 5 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.
• Combine sole, salmon, and shrimp in a food processor. Add bread crumbs. Pour in egg whites and whole egg. Season with kosher salt and cayenne pepper. Add the cooled shallots and parsley.
• Cover processor and pulse on and off, starting with short pulses and transitioning to longer ones, until mixture is well blended and clumps together at the blade. Transfer mixture to a bowl, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours.
• Transfer 1/4 of the sausage mixture onto a piece of plastic wrap. Shape into a log with dampened fingertips. Roll in the plastic, twisting the ends to seal. Lay the log onto a piece of aluminum foil and roll it up. Twist the ends in opposite directions, but not too tightly. Fold the ends back. Repeat with the remaining sausage mixture.
• Bring a pot of water to a simmer. Add the sausages and submerge them with a plate. Cover pot and simmer on low for 20 minutes.
• Transfer sausages into a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking process. Let cool for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the water and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Peel foil off of the sausages over a piece of paper towel. Snip off 1 end of the plastic wrap and squeeze the sausage out through the opening. Trim off any unsightly chunks.
• Melt remaining butter in a pan over medium heat. Cook sausages in the hot butter, turning until browned all over, 5 to 6 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low and cover. Cook until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the sausages reads 140 degrees F (60 degrees C), 5 to 6 minutes more. Repeat with remaining sausages.
• Pour water and lemon juice into the same pan and bring to a boil. Cook until reduced by 1/2, about 3 minutes. Reduce heat to low; add cold butter and parsley. Swirl pan until butter is melted; season with salt and swirl once more. Spoon sauce over the sausages.

SEAFOOD SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Peel and clean prawns, dice into small chunks about 1/4-inch along with scallops and rock shrimp. Place into mixing bowl, add half the amount of tomatoes, also half amount of basil. Except for the capers, add remaining ingredients, mix well and set aside. Place casing in a sausage stuffer machine and make sausages about 6 inches in length. Blanch in simmering water, do not over cook.
• Heat olive oil in a hot skillet. Brown both sides and cook through. Place each sausage in a serving bowl (1 per person), and serve with the remaining diced tomato, basil, and capers poured over the sausage.

COMMANDER'S SEAFOOD SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Chop the fish and/or shellfish into small cubes; place into mixing bowl.
• Stir in the rest of the ingredients and mix very well.
• Place a piece of cling wrap on the counter; place the seafood mixture on it and shape into a cylinder.
• Roll the plastic around the cylinder very tightly and seal the ends.
• Bring a large pan of water to simmer (about 180F), place sausage into water and cook for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Remove from the water and let cool for ten minutes.
• To serve, remove the plastic and slice.

SEAFOOD SAUSAGE WITH LEMON HERB SAUCE

Steps:

• Puree the sole, chill covered 30 minutes. Chop shrimp and salmon, chill 1 1/2 hours. Blend sole puree, eggs, cream, s&p. chill, covered, for 1 hour. fold in shrimp, salmon and parsley. Divide in half on 12" cheets of plastic wrap. Form into logs, wrap. Warap again in foil. Poach in simmering water for 15 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes. Slice into rounds to serve, or chill before slicing, overnight. For the Lemon sauce: boil the wine, lemon juice, and vinegar until reduced by half. Reduce heat to low and whisk in butter, bit by bit, lifting pan from heat to keep from liquefying. Whisk in lemon rind, scallion, parsley, dill, cayenne and salt to taste. Pour suace on individual plate or on platter, arrange sausage rounds in slices and then garnish with more parsley or some dill.

SEAFOOD AND FISH MOUSSE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Chill processor bowl and metal blade in refrigerator.
• Cut chilled salmon into large pieces, and process until smooth. You may need to do this in several batches.
• With motor running slowly add egg whites and cr eme fra^iche.
• Place salmon in bowl with salt and pepper, paprika, parsley, lobster, shrimp, Pernod, anise seeds and green onion.
• Using sausage stuffer, stuff into casing, and tie off at 3-inch intervals.
• Poach in salted water for 15 minutes. To serve, reheat in poaching liquid.

SEAFOOD SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Puree scallops,cream,egg white in a food processor until smooth add the lobster meat,dill,salt and pepper just to chop and distribute the meat leaving it slightly chunky.
• Place mixture in a piping bag.
• Spread a sheet of large plastic wrap on a moistened work surface and pipe out a large bead of sausage filling.
• Leave several inches of plastic wrap empty on either side of the sausage.
• Roll up the plastic wrap carefully,try to avoid forming any air bubbles inside the plastic.
• Grasp both ends and twirl the works repeatedly until the plastic tightens around the sausage.
• If any air pockets form prick them with a pin.
• Tie off both ends of the plastic then tie off the sausage at regular intervals forming links.
• Poach the plastic links in simmering water for 10 minutes then immersing them in cold water.
• Cut off plastic and squeeze out sausage to heat brown in a little butter until heated through.