Sardinian Seafood Soup

Seafood soups that are so hearty they’re more like stews are served as main courses all over the Mediterranean. The general Italian name is zuppa di pesce (literally ‘seafood soup’), but in Sardinia such dishes are called burrida in the south, and cassola in the north, where I come from. It’s very important that you don’t stir the soup once the seafood goes in – at the most, give it a shake to make sure everything is cooking evenly – otherwise the seafood will break up