Cream Of Fish Soup

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 25 g butter
• 25 g flour
• 550 ml fish stock
• salt
• pepper
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 450 g cooked fish fillets, skinned de boned, flaked
• 175 g peeled prawns (shrimp)
• salt
• pepper
• 75 ml cream
• 50 g butter

Recipe

• 1 melt the butter and stir in the flour. cook for 1 minute, then pour in the stock and stir away from the heat.
• 2 season with salt and pepper, then add the crushed garlic, cover the pan and simmer for 10 minutes.
• 3 reserve a few prawns for garnish, then pound the rest in a mortar and pestle.
• 4 add the fish and pounded prawns to the sauce and simmer covered for a further 10 minutes.
• 5 puree the soup in a blender, food processor or use a stick blender.
• 6 return the soup to the saucepan checking the seasonings, add salt and pepper if necessary.
• 7 add the cream to the soup and reheat gently.
• 8 serve garnished with the reserved prawns.