Chowder is one of the traditional first courses in Russian cuisine. It can be cooked with a wide variety of fish, but many believe that the most delicious is pike ear. In addition, pike meat is very useful, it contains vitamins of group B, vitamin C, A, E, PP, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, iodine, sodium, zinc and many other elements. Pike meat also refers to dietary products, so dishes prepared with this fish can be safely consumed both by children and those who monitor the calorie content of their food.
How to cook an ear from a pike so that it turns out to be rich and fragrant? Firstly, the fish must be fresh (frozen will not give such an aroma and taste), it is better if it is small. Secondly, you should not put too many spices in the soup, as they can interfere with the natural taste of fish soup, salt should be salted at the very beginning of cooking. Thirdly, the ear should be boiled in a bowl that is not oxidizable, over low heat, not covered with a lid. Following these simple tips, you can easily determine the answer to the question of how to cook fish soup from pike or other fish so that it turns out to be really tasty. As for the recipe itself, there are a huge number of them, I offer the simplest and most common among our hostesses.
Pike ear
Ingredients: medium-sized pike (800-1000 g), one large or two small carrots, potatoes (4-6 pcs.), One onion, half a glass of wheat groats, a bunch of parsley and basil, bay leaf, salt, ground pepper and peas, caraway.
Cooking. We clean the fresh pike, wash and stretch the insides, remove the tail, if desired, the head. If the ear is with the head, then remove the gills and eyes. Mode fish into pieces, put in a pan, pour cold water and put on fire. After boiling, make the fire small and add bay leaf, ground pepper, salt, caraway seeds to the pan. Boil for about 15 minutes. We take out the pieces of pike in a separate bowl, and filter the broth.
We take out the bones from the fish and cut it into portions. We clean the potatoes, cut them into cubes and send them to the strained broth. We clean the carrots, cut into small strips (you can grate them on a coarse grater) and throw the potatoes after them. Cut the onion and after 10 minutes send it to the pan. Immediately after the onion we fall asleep thoroughly washed wheat groats. Finely chop the parsley and basil and throw in the ear, add the remaining spices here. Cook until all products are cooked. Before the pike ear is ready, put the pieces of fish in the pan. We give the dish to brew for about 20 minutes, after which we pour into portioned plates. Sprinkle with greens on top.
This is the most commonly used pike fish soup recipe . But there are a lot of cooking options for this dish, almost every housewife has her secrets and tricks for cooking fish soup. Some fry onions and carrots separately in a pan, adding butter, and only at the end of cooking they throw them in the ear. Others prefer to cook the ear without adding any cereals.
But the most delicious ear, of course, is obtained in nature from a freshly caught pike. But here there are some little secrets, thanks to which the pike ear, cooked on the banks of the river, will be rich and fragrant.
- Correctly choose the dishes in which the ear will cook. An ideal cast-iron cauldron is ideal for this, its thick walls will not allow the broth to boil. In such dishes, it will languish, as a result of which the maximum amount of vitamins will remain in it, and the taste will be more saturated.
- It is better to take several types of fish, then the taste of the broth will be richer.
- You should not oversaturate the dish with vegetables, as for cereals, then it is better to refuse them altogether so as not to interrupt the taste of the dish.
- If the ear is supposed to be double or triple, then the smallest fish from the catch is suitable for the first broth. It is necessary to throw it alive in the scales into the pot and boil for an hour, after which the broth must be thoroughly filtered. Thus obtained broth will be an excellent basis for fish soup.
Bon Appetit!