Belizean Seafood Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 cup onion, diced
• 4 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2 cups coconut milk, unsweetened
• 3 cups fish stock
• 1 pinch thyme
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 cup potato, cubed
• 1 cup cassava, cubed
• 1 cup green bell pepper, deseeded, diced
• 1 cup carrot, diced
• seafood (as desired)
• 1 large lobster tail, with shell
• 1 lb fish fillet

Recipe

• 1 first heat oil in a heavy pot, add flour and stir constantly with a whisk until flour is copper in color.
• 2 add onions and tomato paste and stir for two to three minutes until onions are a deep golden brown.
• 3 add coconut milk, fish stock, thyme and garlic. mix well, bring to a gentle boil, lower heat and let sauce simmer for ten minutes more.
• 4 add potato, cassava, bell pepper and carrots and boil until vegetables are cooked.
• 5 add lobster, fish, shrimp and conch and simmer until cooked.
• 6 while soup is boiling mix grated green plantain with coconut oil, salt and pepper. form into little dumplings the size of a teaspoon.
• 7 add dumplings along with ripe plantain to the soup and bring to a rapid boil for five minutes or until plantains are cooked.
• 8 serve hot and enjoy.