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Fish and Seafood Soup #christmasrecipes

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This week we want to share with you a very nice recipe, one of our favorite ones, ideal to cook for Christmas, Fish and Seafood Soup “Rota” style. We cook it especially when we want to celebrate. We hope you really enjoy it as much as we do. Have a great week and start getting ready for Christmas, our favourite time of the year.


Ingredients

  • For the Fish Broth:
  • 1 Seabream (Urta, Pargo, Dorada,…) fish head
  • A few small rock fishes
  • 1/2 lb. (1/4 kg.) Shrimps
  • 1/2 lb. (1/4 kg.) Clams
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 Green Pepper
  • 1 Tomato
  • Minced Parsley
  • Salt and Pepper
  • For the Stir fry:
  • 4 Tablespoons Olive Oil
  • 3 Tablespoons Homemade Fried Tomato Sauce
  • 2 Tablespoons All-purpose Flour
  • 1 Tablespoon Thickener (Corn Starch or instant Mashed Potato Flakes)
  • Salt and Pepper
  • A splash of dry sherry wine (Manzanilla or Fino)
  • To garnish:
  • Croutons
  • 2 Hard Boiled Eggs

Preparation

 


⦿ Let's start by peeling the shrimp and frying the heads and shells in a small skillet with one tablespoon of mild olive oil.


⦿ We’ll prepare the base of the soup broth using a medium to large pot, in which we will pour 8 1/2 cups (2 L.) of water, the sautéed shrimp heads and shells, all the chopped vegetables (medium pieces), parsley, salt and pepper.  Add the rock fish and the fish head and let it boil for 30 minutes.


⦿ We strain all the broth by using a Chinese strainer and set aside in a pot. 


⦿ We are going to crumble the meat from the boiled rock fish and use it later to add to our soup.  


⦿ We then proceed to prepare the stir fry.  Put the oil in a frying pan and add 3 tablespoons homemade fried tomato sauce, stir a few minutes until heated and add the flour, the corn starch or mashed potato flakes, and stir everything well.


⦿ We will add this sauce to the pot with the fish broth, then the splash of wine, stir and add the crumbled rock fish meat, the peeled shrimp, the clams with their shells, we let it boil a few minutes and we leave aside.


⦿ And to finish with we will prepare a few croutons (fried bread), chop the hard-boiled eggs and put them in the dishes before serving the soup.


Have a great week :-)