On the menu of any respectable housewife who cares about the health and well-being of all family members, there are certainly first courses. Hot soup or borscht is especially popular in the winter. But to cook the same thing all the time sooner or later gets bored, and even home-made ones do not knock spoons so actively when they are offered mushroom soup for the fifth time in a row .
If you no longer have the imagination to invent more and more first courses, we advise you to cook fish soup with cod. It is easily digestible and useful, moreover, it is done quite simply and very quickly. Having tried such a soup, you probably want to cook it more than once.
What is needed for cooking?
So, prepare the cod soup. But first, a few words about this wonderful fish. Cod - a delicious sea fish with white dense meat. It is rich in iodine and chromium, fluorine and cobalt, potassium and phosphorus, sulfur and calcium.
The cod contains vitamins B12, PP, A, C, H and E. Eating the meat of this fish helps fight diseases of the joints and heart. It is also good for the prevention of cancer, as well as for improving memory. In general, cod should at least sometimes appear on the menu of every person, especially a child. We think, having read this information, you will undertake with even greater zeal to make cod soup. And we will show you how to cook it properly.
For this dish you will need: cod fillet - half a kilo, medium-sized potatoes - 3-4 tubers, one carrot and onion, white beans - 100 g, tomatoes - 3 pcs., As well as salt, pepper, your favorite spices, vegetable oil , bay leaf, dill or parsley.
Cooking the first course
As you know, beans always take a lot of time when cooking, so you need to soak it in advance in cool water and leave it overnight. Then the beans should be washed, again filled with water and set to cook until tender.
It takes about 1.5 hours. When the beans become soft, the burner can be turned off. And only now we begin to cook cod soup. Peel potatoes, carrots and onions. Cut the potatoes into cubes, grate the carrots, and turn the onions into thin half rings. Next, you have to blanch the tomatoes. To do this, wash the tomatoes, make two cuts crosswise on each of them. Boil water and pour tomatoes with boiling water, leave for a couple of minutes. Then put them in cold water for a moment. Done - the peel from the tomatoes is removed almost by itself! After the tomatoes are peeled, they should be grated.
Next stage
And start to fry. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil, send onions there. After it is a little browned, add carrots and fry for a couple of minutes until soft. Then pour grated tomatoes there, mix everything and simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes, seasoning with salt and pepper.
While the vegetables are stewed, grasp the cod itself. Wash the fillets and cut them into small pieces. If there are few seeds, it is better to remove them. Put the potatoes in a pan, then fill with water and let them boil. After a couple of minutes add bay leaf, beans and fry.
Last cooking step
Let it all boil together for about ten minutes, after which throw cod into the soup. Salt, pepper, pour in your favorite spices and leave the cod soup with potatoes to boil over low heat for another 8-10 minutes. In the meantime, finely chop the greens and, if desired, squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic.
Add all this to the soup, turn off the stove and cover the pan with a lid. Cod soup should be infused for at least twenty minutes. After that, he is completely ready! You can call home for dinner and treat with fragrant, steaming, healthy and delicious soup. Enjoy your meal!