Seafood Botticellli

Ingredients

some scallions
230 gr butter
250 gr flour
1 onion
3 celery stalks
20 milliliter garlic
2 gr sweet basil
2 gr tarragon
6 gr thyme
1 tabasco
475 ml sour cream
240 ml cream
2 seafood stock
120 ml wine
80 gr mushrooms
6 gr salt
250 gr shrimp
250 gr crawfish
1 stewing oysters

Instructions

In large pot, melt butter. Add flour, stirring until the mixture is a light brown color. Turn down heat and add onions, celery, scallions and garlic. Add seasonings. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add sour cream and heavy cream, stock and wine. Simmer 10 to 15 minutes. Drain oysters or scallops but do not rinse. Add the oysters, crawfish or scallops, shrimp, and mushrooms and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes. May serve over pasta, or on rice. (wrv)