Delicious Cod Fish Soup

Fish soup is a unique dish that allows you to give real pleasure to those who try it, without overloading the body with extra calories. In any cuisine in the world you can find your own national recipes for fish soups. Take, for example, cod fish soup.

A bit about fish dishes

For the preparation of first courses, almost any fish is used - sea or river fish. Both that, and another have the characteristic features and unique tastes. The best combination of nutritional value and taste can be achieved if you make a soup of white fish meat. Take cod, for example. Its elastic layered meat is the best suited for cooking. It is pleasant after all when in a plate lies a juicy appetizing piece, and not minced fish. In this case, cod fish soup is ideal. You can talk a lot about the benefits of this fish. Minimum fat and low calorie make it truly a dietary product. And due to the increased content of fatty acids, it can be considered a powerful tool for the prevention of the most serious diseases, such as heart disease, brain, joints and even oncology. Perhaps that is why dishes of this fish are so popular lately. It can practically replace meat in the human diet .

Product Preparation

Cod fish soup, like any other, begin to cook with the selection of products. Here, every housewife is guided by his own taste. To do this, you first need to decide whether to cook the whole fish or first cut it into pieces. Further actions will depend on this. In both cases, the most important thing is not to digest the product. Even a fish such as cod, with prolonged boiling, can crumble and lose shape. As a result, the entire set of bones will be mixed with other products. It will not please anyone to eat such a dangerous brew. Next, you need to decide on additional components. They can be very different. Depending on the selected recipe, potato, beetroot, onion, tomato, greens, cereals, flour are added to the cod fish soup. Sometimes eggs, cream, cucumbers and even white wine are used. And the fish itself can be both fresh and smoked. The first step in making soup is the broth. It can be both fish and vegetable. The further cooking process will occur on it.

Prefabricated Soup

Many people consider fish soup to be a rather dangerous dish due to bones. Indeed, there is a certain share of risk in this. That is why some chefs resort to tricks and use semi-finished products. It is much simpler, for example, to cook fish soup from cod fillet than to mess with fresh carcass. In addition, you need: for 400 grams of fresh cod fillet - 1 onion, 2 potatoes and 1 carrot, 200 grams of cream cheese, black peas, 20 grams of green onion, salt, a bunch of parsley, a bay leaf and a couple of spoons of vegetable oil.

Such a soup is prepared as follows.

1. Wash the fish, cut into 4 pieces and put them in a pan.
2. Pour 2-3 liters of cold water there, add salt and put the pan on the fire. Cook for 40 minutes after boiling.
3. Cut the carrots into circles, and the onion as small as possible. Fry the prepared vegetables for 5 minutes in vegetable oil, and then send to the pan and cook there, in total weight, for another 5 minutes.
4. Add potatoes cut into small cubes there. Wait another 15 minutes.
5. At the very end, add chopped parsley, pepper and add cheese. Cover the pan and cook over low heat for about 5 minutes.
6. Pour the prepared aromatic soup into plates and add finely chopped green onion.

Norwegian soup

National cuisines of any Scandinavian country have many options for making seafood soups. The Norwegians have a very interesting recipe for cod fish soup. The difference from the rest of the methods is that in this case, the first dish is prepared without potatoes. Of the products on the desktop you need to have: for 1 kilogram of cod - 2 onions, 3 carrots, 200 grams of tomatoes, 3 cloves of garlic, a bunch of greens, a tablespoon of flour, a little salt, 30 grams of butter, white ground pepper, a couple of spoons of cream and 3 tablespoons of dry white wine.

Start cooking with fish.

1. 
   Cut the cod into pieces, pour water (cold) and put on the stove. After boiling, remove the foam and cook for 5-6 minutes.
2. Wash and peel the carrots with onions, and then put them whole in the broth and cook for another 30 minutes, no more. Then remove the vegetables, grind them well (you can use a blender) and send them back to the pan.
3. In butter, fry chopped garlic in flour. Transfer the resulting sauce to the pan, stir and bring the mixture to a boil again.
4. Pour the wine.
5. Pour the tomatoes with boiling water and peel, cut into slices and add to the soup, which after this should boil for another 6-7 minutes
6. At the last stage, pour in the cream and add chopped greens. Cover the pan and remove from the stove.

Quick and tasty

If time is short, then you can cook cod fish soup , the recipe of which is striking in its simplicity. True, the set of products required is quite diverse: half a kilogram of cod fillet - 5 potatoes, 1 carrot, a clove of garlic, a bay leaf, 1 bell pepper, salt, a tablespoon of vegetable oil, a pair of allspice peas, a little green onion, a slice of butter and 1 a circle of lemon.

Soup is preparing very quickly:

1. 
   Pour one and a half liters of water into the pan. Add allspice, bay leaf and bring to a boil.
2. Throw coarsely chopped potatoes and cook a little.
3. Dip the fish into the boiling mixture. Wait until the foam appears and carefully remove it.
4. Throw grated carrots, chopped pepper and wait until the liquid boils again.
5. Add vegetable oil, salt and leave on fire for 20 minutes.
6. Add garlic to the boiling mass, squeeze the juice from a slice of lemon and immediately turn off the heat.
7. Pour freshly prepared soup onto plates, in each of which put a little butter.

The dish is fresh, aromatic and very tender. Such a soup would be happy to eat even a child.