Chinese Fish Soup with Spring Onions

Name: Chinese Fish Soup with Spring Onions
Yield: serves 6
Ingredients: prawn or shrimp roe if available; 6 teaspoons spring onion (scallion), finely sliced at an angle; lots of freshly ground white pepper; fresh coriander or flat-leaf parsley; 225 g lemon sole or plaice fillets, skinned; 1 iceberg lettuce heart; 18 prawns or shrimps, cooked and peeled; 1.1 litres very well-flavoured Chinese stock; salt

Preparation info

serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

About

I adore light fish soups. Use this recipe as a formula and vary the fish and shellfish depending on what you have available – mussels and white crab meat are particularly delicious. You might even add some fresh chilli and lots of fresh coriander.

Ingredients

225 g lemon sole or plaice fillets, skinned
1 iceberg lettuce heart
1.1 l

Pescatarian
Spring
Gluten-free
Soup

Method

Cut the fish fillets into pieces about 4cm square. Shred the lettuce heart very finely. Bring the stock to the boil, add the salt and fish slices. Simmer for 1 minute. Add the prawns or shrimps and allow to heat through. Put about 2 tablespoons of the shredded lettuce into each Chinese soup bowl, ad