Freshwater Fish and Summer Vegetable Soup

Preparation info
  • Makes 7 cups ( 1.75 l );

    6

    first-course servings or 4 main-course servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Soup: A Way of Life

By Barbara Kafka

Published 1998

  • About

The whole world does not have a seacoast. Inland countries make their fish soups with freshwater fish or fish that swim up streams to spawn. Many of these soups are excellent although, oddly enough, many freshwater fish are bony and need to be thoroughly filleted before cooking (except for eel—which cannot be). Originally, I made this with carp, which does have a voluptuous feel in the mouth, but I hesitate to recommend it as it has a plethora of tiny bon