Simplified Fish Fumet

Name: Simplified Fish Fumet
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Broken-up bones of 6 sole or other firm white fish; 1 large carrot; 1 large onion; 100 g (3½ oz) button mushrooms; 1 calf’s foot, chopped in 8 pieces; bouquet garni; 3 chicken stock cubes; 2 litres (3½ pints) cold water; 1 clove; 5 peppercorns; 1 tablespoon olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cuisine Gourmande

By Michel Guérard

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large carrot
1 large onion
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Europe
France
Starter
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the carrot, onion and button mushrooms, all peeled and cut into 1 cm (½ in) cubes. Sweat the vegetables without letting them brown.
Add the broken-up fish bones, the calf’s foot cut into eight pieces, the small bouquet garni, peppercorns and clove. Add the cold water and stock cubes.
Allow to simmer, uncovered,