Arrai Sopa

Name: Arrai Sopa (Rich Fish Soup)
Yield: 6 Serves
Cuisine: Spain
Ingredients: 400 g (14 oz) fillet of skinless wahou or blue-eye trevalla, cut into large chunks; a handful of parsley, stalks reserved and leaves roughly chopped; 2 leeks, white part only, finely sliced; 250 ml (9 fl oz/1 cup) white wine; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) brandy; 10 black peppercorns; 4 tomatoes, roughly chopped; 1 brown onion, finely sliced; 3 carrots, diced; 2 × 400 g (14 oz) tins chopped tomatoes, puréed; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) clams, rinsed; 1 garlic bulb, halved, plus 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 230 ml (7¾ fl oz) extra virgin olive oil, plus extra, to drizzle; 800 g (1 lb 12 oz) raw prawns (shrimp), peeled and deveined, leaving the tails intact and reserving the heads and shells; 4 bay leaves; 1.8 kg (4 lb) heads and bones of white fish such as snapper or whiting

Rich Fish Soup

Preparation info

6
Serves

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

MoVida Rustica

By Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish

Published 2009

About

THE THINGS YOU DO FOR RESEARCH… A CHEF TOLD ME ABOUT ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE BARS IN A FISHING TOWN WHERE THE CHEF MAKES AN ASTOUNDING FISH SOUP. IT WAS IN AN AREA WHERE BASQUE SEPARATIST FLAGS FLY AND THE BARS FILL WITH SMOKE AND MEN. MY BUSINESS PARTNER AND I FOUND THE PLACE AND ORDERED A BOWL OF SOUP BETWEEN US. MAY I JUST SAY THAT REAL’ BASQUE MEN DON’T SHARE SOUP. MAY I ALSO ADD THAT DISPARAGEMENT HAS A TONE THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD NO MATTER WHAT THE LANGUAGE. STILL, IT WAS WORTH IT. THIS

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Europe
Spain
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Soup
May
Mediterranean

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