Shrimp sauce

This is an excellent sauce to accompany grilled or poached white fish such a haddock, cod or hake.

Preparation Time: 5 Mins

Cooking Time: 15 Mins

Total Time: 20 Mins

Ingredients

10 cl               White sauce            

30 cl               Stock  - fish

110 gms          Shrimps    

                      Pepper  - freshly ground, white 

                      Salt          

For the white sauce

10 gms            Butter       

½ os              Flour        

30 cl               Milk         

60 ml              Wine        

                     Pepper  - freshly ground, white 

                     Salt          

Method

Make a white sauce…

Melt the butter over low heat - not allowing it to brown.  Stir in the flour, being careful that it does not colour and stirring till the roux is absolutely smooth and no separate flour or melted butter is visible.

Add the milk a very little at a time, stirring each addition in until it is taken up by the roux.  Half way through adding the milk add the wine and stir it in.  When all the milk is taken up, add salt and pepper and simmer very gently for 3 minutes.

To make the shrimp sauce…

To the white sauce add and blend in the fish stock, stir in the shrimps and adjust the seasoning.

Variations

If shrimps are not available, use prawns.