Eel or Fish with Fresh Green Herbs

Although it’s meant to be prepared with fresh river eels, this soup is too good to be limited to live eels. The method—cooking with a little fish broth and finishing with a handful of freshly chopped herbs—can be used with any fish. I even made it once with sand shark.

The trick to this soup is to throw in handfuls of fresh herbs that have been finely chopped at the last minute. The fish can be cut up and the fish broth made ahead of time, but the herbs must be chopped and the fish