Name: Caribbean Seafood Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 1 red pepper, deseeded and finely dice; 4 plum tomatoes, roughly chopped; 400 ml can coconut milk; ½ hot red chilli (ideally Scotch bonnet), seeds left in, finely chopped; ½ tbsp soft light brown sugar; 3 sprigs of fresh thyme; 2 cm (¾ in) piece of root ginger, finely chopped; ½ tsp ground allspice; fresh coconut shavings; 1 red chilli, deseeded and very finely chopped; zest of 1 lime, cut in thin strips; 150 g (5½ oz) queen (small) scallops, without roe; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1 onion, roughly chopped; 2 tbsp sunflower or groundnut oil; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) mussels; squeeze of lime; 115 g (4 oz) sweet potato, peeled and cut into small cubes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

In the Caribbean, when you catch a big fish such as a grouper, the body can go off to the hotels while the head is used by locals along with some chopped-up vegetables to make what we call ‘fish tea’ or fish soup. This soup is a special version, using shellfish instead of fish, but you could also use just fish if you prefer.

Ingredients

2 tbsp sunflower or groundnut oil
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 red peppe

Method

Heat the oil in the bottom of a large heavy-based saucepan (it must be able to fit all the mussels) and sauté the onion and pepper until soft. The onion should be pale gold.
Add the garlic, chilli, ginger and allspice and cook gently for another 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook for another minute, then add everything else except the shellfish. Bring just up

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