Pike Head Fish Soup (Ukha)

A fragrant fish soup — delicious, quick, and easy! Ukha made from a pike's head is a dish with very few ingredients, yet it's still very tasty. This ukha is perfect for lunch or dinner — light and full of flavor.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 50 % 3 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 50 % 3 g
28 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0
    1. First, peel and wash the potatoes and cut them into cubes, as you usually would for soup. Put the potatoes in a pot, add the water, set it over the heat, and cook for 10 minutes.
    1. Meanwhile, wash the pike head under running water, remove the gills and fins, and wash it again.
    1. Peel the onion and add it whole to the pot along with the fish, then season with salt.
    1. Peel the carrots, grate them on a fine grater, and add them to the soup.
    1. Reduce the heat to low and cook for 25 minutes, then lift out the onion with a slotted spoon.
    1. Wash and finely chop the green onion and dill, and add them to the soup along with the bay leaf and ground black pepper 5 minutes before it's done.
    1. Ladle the ukha into bowls, pick the meat off the pike head, and add some to each bowl.
  • Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80  kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70  kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380  kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82  kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in their skins - 74  kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192  kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33  kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275  kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25  kcal/100g
  • Pike in tomato sauce - 108  kcal/100g
  • Boiled pike - 98  kcal/100g
  • Poached pike - 90  kcal/100g
  • Fresh pike - 82  kcal/100g
  • Stuffed pike - 141  kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313  kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255  kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38  kcal/100g
  • Green onion - 19  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Water - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g

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