Many people probably liked the very same fish soup cooked in Spartan conditions on the river bank. But even in your home kitchen you can make a soup that will turn out to be just as good.
Ingredients:
- Medium-sized pike;
- Potatoes - 3 tubers;
- Carrots - 3 pcs;
- Parsley root - several pieces;
- Butter - 80 g;
- Onions - 3 pcs;
- Parsley - 1/3 bunch;
- Lavrushka leaf;
- Ground black pepper and salt.
Preparation:
- First, wash the pike well, clean it, remove all entrails and gills from it, rinse again. Divide the fish into several large parts with a knife.
- Wash potato tubers and carrots in advance and peel them off.
- If necessary, soak the parsley root in cold water, then peel and chop into a circle. Cut the carrots into a circle and the potatoes into a medium-sized cube.
- Remove the husk from the onion, wash in running water, divide into two parts, finely chop one of them.
- Put pieces of pike in a deep saucepan, pour over them with cold water, season with chopped parsley root. Put the broth to boil over medium heat, stand for 20 minutes, after which add a little salt, laurel leaf and black pepper to the pan.
- Strain the finished fish broth well, and sort the pike from the bones, divide into portions.
- Put the broth back on a medium-temperature stove and bring to a boil, put pre-prepared vegetables and portioned pieces of pike into the soup. Cook the soup for 20 minutes.
- Sort the green parsley, rinse well in running cold water, dry on a paper towel and then coarsely chop or pinch with your hands.
- Season the finished soup with a slice of butter and chopped green parsley.