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Caribbean Fish Soup

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125 min

Caribbean Fish Soup

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Category

Bean Recipes

Time

125 min

Serving

8 persons

Calories

203

Rating

4.00★ (7)

Cuisine

American
Author: Victoria Buriak
Homemade fish broth makes this healthy soup very tasty. I always loved this dish while growing up in the Caribbean. To my surprise, it turned out to be a good warm-up drink, too. Long story short, as I waited for a bus on a freezing and windy winter evening in NYC, I noticed a West Indian restaurant across the street. I ran in to get a cup of coffee or tea — the last thing on my mind was a bowl of soup. They were about to close, and they only had fish soup. I took a small cup and went back to the bus stop. It warmed me up and reached such a good place inside me that I ran back for more.

Ingredients

  • whole fish, scaled and cleaned: 2 pound (to taste)
  • lemon: 1 piece (juiced)
  • water: 8 cups
  • green bananas: 4 piece (chopped)
  • pumpkin: 1 pound (cut into 1-inch pieces, to taste)
  • potatoes: 2 piece (chopped)
  • ears corn: 2 piece (cut into 1-inch pieces)
  • ounces carrots: 4 piece (cut into 1/2 inch pieces)
  • okra: 0.5 cup (chopped)
  • scallions: 4 piece (chopped)
  • hot Chili pepper: 1 piece
  • garlic: 2 clove (chopped)
  • salt: 1 tsp
  • ground black pepper: 1 tsp
  • sprigs fresh thyme, leaves stripped: 4 piece

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Stages of cooking

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  1. Rinse fish with lemon juice; drain.
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  2. Bring water to a boil in a large pot. Add fish; reduce to a simmer and cook until soft, about 30 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to remove fish to a plate, reserving broth in the pot. Let fish cool; remove bones, keeping large pieces of flesh intact.
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  3. Bring broth to a boil. Add green bananas, pumpkin, potatoes, corn, carrots, okra, scallions, chile pepper, garlic, salt, black pepper, and thyme. Return to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until potatoes are almost tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in fish pieces and simmer until flavors combine, about 5 minutes more.
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  4. Remove soup from heat and let stand before serving, about 30 minutes. Discard chile pepper.
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