BBC Food - Recipes - Flambéed lobster

Ingredients

• 250g/9oz white fish trimmings, rinsed
• 2 leeks , white part only, roughly chopped
• ½ bulb fennel , roughly chopped
• 2 carrots , roughly chopped
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 shallots , finely chopped
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 2 canned plum tomatoes, drained and finely chopped
• 2 cooked lobsters , split, tail and claw meat removed, cut into serving pieces
• 75ml/3fl oz brandy
• 110ml/4fl oz fish stock
• 50g/2oz butter
• 3 tbsp chervil , roughly chopped
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper