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Recipes with butter lettuce leaves

3 recipes that use butter lettuce leaves, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Tomaat-garnaal, takes 20 minutes. It is most often cooked with mayonnaise, lemon and butter.

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Æg og rejerEgg and shrimp sandwich

On Danish lunch boards from Skagen to Copenhagen, sliced egg buried under a heap of small, sweet North Sea shrimp is the first fish smørrebrød people reach for. It is built on buttered rye or white bread, finished with a ribbon of mayonnaise, a lemon twist and dill. The best are made with cold-water shrimp peeled by hand, so the dish is eaten in spring and early summer when the catch is good. A common mistake is overcooking the eggs until the yolk turns grey-green. Chef's tip: drain the shrimp well on kitchen paper so the bread stays crisp.

25 minScandinavianFish
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New England lobster roll

From Kittery to Bar Harbor, roadside lobster shacks on the Maine coast serve this every summer: big chunks of sweet lobster meat, barely dressed with mayonnaise, lemon and celery, piled into a hot-dog bun toasted in butter. Over the border in Connecticut they serve it warm with melted butter instead, and both camps think the other is wrong. Chef's tip: dress the lobster lightly, just enough to gloss it; the meat should be the star, not the mayonnaise.

50 minAmericanFish
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Tomaat-garnaalTomatoes stuffed with grey shrimp

Along the Belgian coast, from Ostend to De Panne, tomaat-garnaal is the starter that tells you you are at the seaside: a hollowed raw tomato heaped with tiny, sweet North Sea grey shrimp in homemade mayonnaise, served with lettuce, lemon and often a few chips. The shrimp are caught and boiled on the boats, so they come ready-cooked and peeled. Because the dish has so few parts, everything depends on good ripe tomatoes and very fresh shrimp. The thing people often get wrong is drowning the shrimp in mayonnaise; use just enough to bind them so their sweetness comes through. Chef's tip: salt the hollowed tomatoes and turn them upside down for 10 minutes so they do not leak water onto the plate.

20 minBelgianFishGluten free
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Goes well with butter lettuce leaves