Redshank’s Cullen Skink

Inverness

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Taste of the Highlands

By Ghillie Basan

Published 2021

  • About

‘My daddy makes the best Cullen skink,’ says Caoimhe, the 11-year-old daughter of Team Redshank, Jamie and Ann Marie Ross. And she’s probably right as Daddy makes a point of sourcing the best fish, choosing haddock from Peterhead or from one of the fishing villages along the Moray coast, such as Cullen itself, which gave this soupy stew its name. This is typical fisher food of the close-knit coastal communities. The word ‘skink’ is old Scot