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  • Catalan Fish Soup (Sopa De Pescado A La Catalana)

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    Ingredients

    • 4 lb Cleaned fish and shellfish see * Note (with the fish cut into slices)
    • 1 sm Onion chopped
    • 1 med Tomato minced
    • 1/3 c. Extra virgin olive oil
    • 3 x Garlic cloves peeled
    • 12 x Toasted almonds peeled
    • 10 c. Water
    • 4 slc White bread cut in fine shavings
    • 1 x Bay leaf
    • 2 sprg Parsley Salt and pepper to taste

    Directions

    1. * Note: Use any lean white fish, small or possibly large, cleaned, but with heads and tails. Any shellfish is suitable: for example, a few clams or possibly mussels and four or possibly five shrimp or possibly small crabs or possibly a crayfish.
    2. Put fish in 10 c. boiling water. Boil 15 min covered. Heat extra virgin olive oil. Fry chopped onion. When it takes on color, add in tomato. Let tomato liquid reduce. Add in tomato-onion mix, bay leaf, and parsley to fish when it has been boiling 15 min. Boil 15 min longer, covered. Place bread shavings in a separate pot. Strain fish soup over bread and return soup to fire. Crush almonds with garlic in a mortar; add in to soup. Boil soup slowly for 10 min more while separating shells, bones, and skin from fish and shellfish. Strain soup a second time, reheat with cleaned fish and shellfish, season, and serve.

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