Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients. To prepare fish soup from the head of red fish, we will need: salmon heads, potatoes, carrots, onions, water, bay leaf, allspice and salt. Optional 1-2 tbsp. l. vodka.
Step 2:
Wash the fish heads thoroughly, remove the gills, cut off the fins. There should be no small parts, blood clots left in the head, because this can greatly affect the transparency of the broth.
Step 3:
Put the fish heads, a whole peeled onion, peas of allspice in a saucepan.
Step 4:
Pour cold water and put on a slow fire.
Step 5:
Peel and cut carrots into small cubes or grate on a coarse grater.
Step 6:
Peel and dice the potatoes.
Step 7:
Bring to a boil. Simmer for 40 minutes, periodically removing the foam from the surface. At the end of cooking, remove the onion and throw it away.
Step 8:
Remove the fish heads from the broth and divide, separating the meat from the bones.
Step 9:
Strain the broth and return to the fire. Bring to a boil.
Step 10:
Put potatoes and carrots in it. Cook over medium heat for about 15 minutes until the potatoes are ready.
Step 11:
Add chopped fish fillet, bay leaf. Add salt to the ear. Cook for another 10 minutes. If desired, you can add a small piece of butter to the pan at the end, but it seemed to me that the soup turned out to be fat enough.
Step 12:
After the cooking time has elapsed, turn off the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let the ear brew for about 10-15 minutes.
Step 13:
Pour the soup on plates and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!
Fish for fish soup should be chosen correctly, even if it is only about the head part. If you do not have a supplier who brings freshly caught fish, the quality of which you do not doubt, but choose it in the store, then it is very important to pay attention to the following:
- salmon eyes should be transparent. Cloudy lenses mean the expiration date of the fish;
- the gills should be red in color. If the color is dimmer, similar to brick, the product is not fresh;
- the existing fat layers in the meat should have a white color. If there is an orange tint, then the fish carcass has been soaked in dye.
If desired, you can add 1-2 tablespoons of vodka to the ear at the very end. There is not much meat in the head, so fish tails are usually added to the ear. However, all the rich taste of fish soup is concentrated in the broth and the head of the fish copes with this quite well.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Bay leaf - 313 kcal/100g
- Steamed salmon - 197 kcal/100g
- Boiled salmon - 189 kcal/100g
- Fresh salmon - 140 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Allspice - 263 kcal/100g