PORTUGUESE SEAFOOD SOUP Recipe

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This hearty soup is like Portuguese Bouillabaisse.Flavorsome,filling,fun and rather exotic.This recipe was given to me by a friend who noted it down from The Dish magazine.

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Servings: 4-6
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Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 small fennel bulb thinly sliced
  • 150 gm yellow pumpkin (or you could use squash instead) peeled,grated
  • 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 400 gm tin tomatoes
  • 12 whole raw prawns
  • 3 cups fish,chicken or vegetable stock
  • 400 gm firm white fish fillets,cut inot small pieces
  • 1/4 cup chopped flat - leaf parsley
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 small leek,thinly sliced,
  • 1 carrot grated
  • 2 cloves garlic,crushed
  • 1 tsp ground fennel
  • 1/2 cup wine
  • 12 mussels,scrubbed

Directions

  1. FOR THE SOUP:
  2. Heat oil in a large saucepan and add the leek,fennel,carrot,pumpkin,garlic,chilli flakes and the ground fennel,carrot ,pumkin,garlic,chilli flakes and the ground fennel.Season generously,cover and cook for 10 - 15 mins,stiring occasionally until soft.
  3. Add the lemon zest and wine and let it bubble up for 1 minute then add the tomatoes and stock.
  4. Simmer uncovered for 10 mins then add the mussels.Cover the pan and cook until the mussels have just begun to open.Then add fish and prawns.
  5. Cover and continue to cook until all the mussels have opened and the fish and prawns are just cooked.
  6. DISCARD ANY MUSSELS THAT DO NOT OPEN.
  7. Stir in the chopped parsley.
  8. TO SERVE:
  9. Ladle the soup into wide shallow bowls and divide the seafood evenly.

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