Fish Soup

Minestra di Pesce

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 15

Appears in
Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook

By Silvia Nacamulli

Published 2022

  • About

A traditional Italian fish soup contains shellfish, which is not kosher. This version, using only kosher fish, is another example of the way Italian Jews have adapted a local recipe to their dietary restrictions. If you would like to further extend their inventiveness and make this a thrifty recipe, as at the time of the ghetto, use only fish heads and bones, keeping the fillets for another dish. Here, I use all parts of the fish and cook the fillets in the soup just before serving, which i