Fish Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Shell the shrimp and put the shells in a stockpot. Put the shrimp in a mound on a large plate. Slice the squid and place in a mound next to the shrimp. Cut the remaining fish into one-and-a-half-inch chunks and put any bones into the stockpot. Squeeze lemon juice onto the fish and set aside.
• Add the parsley to the stockpot with any fish heads and other bones. Add five cups water and simmer gently uncovered for 30 minutes.
• Heat the olive oil in a large skillet and soften the leek with the carrots and the garlic. Add the tomatoes with the saffron and white wine. Cook gently for five minutes, turn heat down to very low, cover and simmer while the broth is cooking.
• Meanwhile, make the rouille. Put the bread and mayonnaise into the bowl of a food processor. Add the mayonnaise, paprika and cayenne. Slowly add the oil and process until you have a thick puree. Season to taste and place in a small bowl.
• Drain the fish broth and reserve. Put the broth into a pot that you can carry to the table and add the leek tomato mixture. Simmer for five minutes.
• Just before serving add the fish to the broth. First add the squid, cook for five minutes, then add the white fish, cook for two minutes, then add the shrimp and cook for two minutes. Bring to the table and serve the rouille separately.

Steps:

• Put the first 13 ingredients (to the cumin) into a large stockpot. Bring to a boil.
• Simmer gently 5 or 6 mnutes.
• Cut the fish into 2 inch pieces and add to broth. Simmer for an additional 8 minutes.
• Add cilantro, hominy, butter and HEAT gently.
• Adjust seasonings to taste.
• Garnish with fresh cilantro and serve with boiled white rice and lemon slices.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and green pepper; cook and stir until tender. Add carrots and garlic; cook 3 minutes longer. Stir in tomato sauce, tomatoes, wine and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 30 minutes., Stir in salmon, shrimp and parsley. Cook, covered, 7-10 minutes longer or until fish flakes easily with a fork and shrimp turn pink. Discard bay leaf.

Steps:

• Spray a large saucepan with the vegetable cooking spray over medium high heat. Add the onions and saute, stirring often, for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and chili powder and saute for 2 more minutes.
• Then add the chicken broth, chile peppers and cumin, stirring well. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Next, add the tomatoes, green bell pepper, shrimp and cod. Return to a boil, then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for another 5 minutes. Gradually stir in the yogurt until heated through.

Steps:

• Bring base with fish stock and 1 clove garlic to a simmer. Add potatoes, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Add half of saffron, peas and fish and simmer gently for 5 minutes or until fish is cooked through. Season to taste with salt and Tabasco. Meanwhile, combine the mayonnaise with remaining garlic and saffron. Stir into soup, if you wish.

Steps:

• Heat a large heavy stockpot and to it add the olive oil. Add the fish bones and cook them over low heat, covered, until any flesh on them flakes from the bones. Add the vegetables and any shells from the shrimp, cover and cook over low heat until the vegetables sweat, about 10 minutes.
• Deglaze the pot with the wine, scraping up any particles sticking to the bottom of the pan. Stir in the saffron, thyme, and basil.
• Add the fish stock or water, and let the mixture gently boil for 1 hour. Then puree it in a food processor or pass it through a food mill. Pass the puree through a medium strainer into a clean stockpot. Stir in the Pernod. Season the base, to taste, with salt, pepper and cayenne. The soup should have a full-bodied flavor: If it seems weak, reduce it over low heat to concentrate the flavor.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Skim any fish oil from the top of the soup and reserve it to stir into the rouille.
• Toast the croutons in the oven until golden, and then brush with rouille.
• Bring the soup to a boil. Add the shellfish and/or uncooked fish fillets to the soup, 1 variety at a time. Cook each until done; then remove from the soup and keep warm. (The lobsters will take about 10 minutes and their shells will be bright red when done; medium shrimp will take 3 or 4 minutes to cook; fish fillets from 1 to 7 minutes, depending on their thickness (they should remain slightly underdone); and the mussels and clams only cook for 3 to 5 minutes, until their shells open).
• Presentation: Place 1 crouton in the bottom of each large, shallow, heated soup plates. Then arrange the fish and/or shellfish around each crouton. Ladle the hot soup over all. Serve immediately. Pass additional rouille in a separate serving bowl.
• Clean the fish bones under cold running water, removing the gills from the head and any traces of blood on the frames.
• In a large saucepan, heat the oil. In it sweat the fish bones and vegetables over low heat, covered, for 10 minutes, stirring once or twice to prevent them from browning.
• Deglaze the pan with the wine, and then add enough water to cover the bones and vegetables by 2 inches. Add the bouquet garni and bring the liquid to a boil. Skim the froth from the surface, reduce the heat, and simmer the stock for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Strain the stock into a clean saucepan. Bring it to a boil and reduce it over medium heat to 1 quart.
• Note: Fish stock will keep in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 days or frozen for 2 to 3 weeks. After that time the flavor begins to fade.
• Yield: 1 quart
• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 35 minutes
• In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, garlic, mustard, and chili flakes. Whisk in the oil in a very slow steady stream until the sauce begins to emulsify. Add the remaining oil in a thin stream until all of it is incorporated. Add the saffron. Thin the sauce with the stock and season, to taste, with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
• Yield: 1 1/2 cups
• Prep Time: 10 minutes

Steps:

• Make the stock using the water, stock cubes and prawns (separate the heads from the prawns and add both heads and bodies to the water). Cover the pan and bring to the boil. When it reaches the boil switch the heat off and leave to stand for a while. Remove the prawns and, using the end of a rolling pin or back of a wooden spoon and a colander, mash the heads and bodies and catch any juices etc in a bowl. Add the juices back into the stock. Discard the remains of the prawns
• Cut the fish into large chunks, 2 to 3 inches wide.
• Heat the oil in a large pot or pan and add the leeks, carrots, onion, fennel and garlic. Cover the pan and sweat gently until the vegetables are very very soft and without allowing them to brown, stirring from time to time. When the vegetables are very soft stir in the tomatoes and tomato paste. Add the fish, then the stock, wine, orange juice, thyme, tarragon, parsley, saffron strands, and cayenne. Cover the pan, bring to the boil slowly and then simmer gently with the pan still covered, stirring from time to time, until the fish completely falls apart. Add 2 or 3 dashes of Pernod (to taste) and sea salt and freshly ground black pepper (also to taste).
• Allow the soup to cool then zap it in a liquidiser or blender. Then work it all through a seive using the back of a ladle, wooden spoon etc.
• Keep the surplus fish/vegetable mixture. Reduce the strained liquid a little.
• Note: You can use the left over mashed fish and vegetable mixture to make Thai fish cakes. Add a bit of seasoned mashed potato, some chopped spring onions, chopped fresh coriander & chill peppers etc. Season the mix with some Thai fish sauce (to taste) and then shape the mix into round cakes. Fry the cakes in some oil until brown on both sides. Serve with some dips, e.g. sweet chilli, nuoc cham and a Thai salad
• Add some of the fish/vegetable mixture back into the soup. I normally add about a quarter of the residue back into the soup, but you should add as much of it as you need in order to get the desired texture/thickness. Taste and adjust the seasoning as required.
• To make the rouille, mix together the mayo, garlic, tomato puree and the cayenne pepper and season to taste. Garnish with a sprinkle of cayenne and a sprig of parsley.
• To make the croutons, heat the oven to 200 deg C (180 deg C fan oven) gas mark 6. Cut the baguette in 1cm-thick slices and lay them in a single layer on one or more baking trays. Brush lightly with oil on one side and dry for 10 minutes in the oven until crisp but not hard.
• Reheat the soup to serve and adjust the seasoning as required, i.e. salt, pepper, cayenne and Pernod before serving. Spread the croutons generously with the rouille and sprinkle with the grated cheese then float each one on to the surface of the soup.

Steps:

• Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter, add the flour, stir for about 2 minutes without browning the flour.
• Add the fish stock at intervals, stirring all the time, let it boil gently for 5-10 minutes.
• Melt the rest of the butter and saute the carrots and leek and potatoes, if using, for approx 10 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes (if using) and simmer for another 5 minutes, then add the shrimps, mussels, fish and the cream.
• Simmer for another 5 minutes, or until the fish and shellfish are tender.
• Add the parsley and salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve garnished with sour cream and the lumpfish caviar.

Steps:

• Put the coriander seeds and galangal or ginger in a saucepan. Pour in the stock, bring to the boil, then simmer gently for 5 mins. Leave to stand for 10 mins.
• Meanwhile, cook the noodles following pack instructions. Drain and keep warm. Return stock to the boil. Add the fish sauce, chillies and garlic, reduce the heat and simmer for 2 mins. Add the prawns and salmon, return to a simmer and cook gently for about 5 mins until both are firm and cooked. Add the spring onions, herbs and lime juice, to taste.
• Divide the noodles between soup bowls. Using a slotted spoon, lift out the prawns and fish, and place on the noodles. Season the hot stock, pour into the bowls and serve with Spring rolls on the side.