Favorite and popular recipe for traditional lobster soup from the Kempinski Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg. The best lobster soup recipe and fish soup recipe for special occasions with lobster.
Cook lobster in boiling salted water for 4 minutes, then rinse in ice water and let the claws steep individually in the cooking water for another 7 minutes. Start 4 minutes timer here//Start 7 minutes timer here
2 lobster
Break out the lobster parts, clean them and remove the intestines. Wash and chop the lobster carcasses.
Fry carcasses in neutral vegetable oil, cut vegetables into 1x1cm cubes and fry with them. Add spices, deglaze with cognac and flambé.
50 g fennel
50 g celery
100 g yellow onion
2 leaves fresh laurel
5 peppercorns
5 branches basil
20 ml cognac brandy
Add tomatoes and fill up with 400ml lobster stock, 50ml white wine and cream.
10 tomatoes
50 ml white wine
400 ml lobster stock
400 ml whipped cream
Slowly bring to a boil and add herbs. Reduce heat and let steep for about 2 hours. Start 120 minutes timer here
Strain lobster stock through a fine hair sieve and season to taste. Warm the gutted lobster meat in the separate lobster stock and divide among four soup plates.
Froth the lobster soup with a hand blender and serve. The lobster soup is put on the lobster meat with lobster stock and visible sugar snap peas in front of the guest.