Cooking Foods Italian Recipes – Fish Soup

 

There are many versions of Italian famous Zuppa Di Pesce, I developed this one cooked inside the oven to enable you to get the whole fishes in ti the plate without break them as usual happens when you cook the fishes in to a pot.

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

Onion – one

Carrot – one

Garlic – few cloves

Sage – two-three leaves

Thyme – few leaves

Laurel – few leaves

Parsley – few leaves

Basil – few leaves

Tomato juice – two glasses

White wine – two glasses

Extra virgin olive oil – half glass

Marine salt

Fish of various kind – 4 pounds (2 kilos) please note that this is the quantity I used in the following recipe; you can have less weight and choose different fishes only remember to follow these rules:

1_use sea water fishes only: do not mix them with lake or river fishes please!

2_you need at least one type of bottom fish (grouper, snapper, mullet, sea-bass, anglerfish or goosefish, rockfish, skorpionfish);

3_you need at least three different fishes;

4_to improve the taste add at least one crostaceous (shrimp, prawn, lobster);

5_to improve the taste add some squid or cuttlefish: please note that I do not suggest octopus to make the Zuppa di Pesce;

6_o improve the taste add some mussels and/or clams.

I like to remember that also the vegetal flavors can be replaced with some of your choice: my recipe is a guideline to describe how to make Italian food.

No worries if you miss some ingredients: if the fish is fresh you will get a good soup using only tomato, salt and water believe me! Said this, please try to find some ingredients anyway, OK?

 

 

 

 

Chop small onion, carrot and garlic.

You can keep the whole leaves, I like to chop basil and parsley, too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drop the vegetables in to one (I will use two because I have a lot of fish) oven-pan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add the whole leaves on top, spread around three-four spoons of extra virgin olive oil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add two-three spoons of tomato juice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spread two pinches of marine salt in each one of the oven pan, on the top of the ingredients.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add the first type of fish the one with the meat more resistant to the temperature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribute squids and cuttlefish on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spread another two-three pinches of salt on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribute the crostaceous (prawns) on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can use mussels and/or clams either cooked or raw: if you prefere to cook them keep the broth apart.

Distribute the mussels/clams on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drop on top two glasses of the broth you made with the mussels (one glass to each oven-pan.

You can make the broth with any other fish or vegetable you like: avoid to use broth made with beef.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add half glass of white wine to each oven-pan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add one glass of tomato juice to each one of the oven-pan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just like that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use a foil of oven-paper to seal the fish inside each one of the oven-pan.

Do not use cellophane or aluminum foils.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put in to the oven.

Set a good temperature (500 Fahrenheit – 280 Celsius) and let cook for 20-25 minutes…stay in the kitchen area: a good smell of cooked fish will alert you when almost ready!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The final result !

You can get different fishes in each plate………buon appetito !!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links to my culinary books:

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Foods-Italian-Recipes-Soffritto-ebook/dp/B00H66NQPM/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406733629&sr=1-3&keywords=maurizio+russo+soffritto

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Foods-Italian-Recipes-Secrets-ebook/dp/B00GVN21ZC/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406733612&sr=1-2&keywords=maurizio+russo+risotto

http://www.amazon.com/Black-White-D-K-Maurizio-Russo/dp/1494286491/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406733629&sr=1-2&keywords=maurizio+russo+soffritto

http://www.amazon.com/Black-White-D-K-Maurizio-Russo/dp/1494272660/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406733612&sr=1-1&keywords=maurizio+russo+risotto