Fresh frozen mackerel fish soup

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook delicious soup from freshly frozen mackerel quickly and easily? Start by preparing the necessary ingredients according to the list. I have a soup of freshly frozen mackerel, but you can replace it with fresh. Fresh parsley root can be replaced with a mixture of dried roots or a celery root or stalk.

2. Step 2:

   

   If the fish is already gutted, then remove the fins and gills and rinse it well. Frozen fish usually need to be cleaned additionally. Without defrosting to the end, remove the insides, black films inside the abdomen, remove the gills. Rinse everything thoroughly. Cut the fish into portions. To preserve the transparency of the broth, it is advisable to fill the fish pieces with water and leave for 10 minutes so that all the blood comes out of the fish.

3. Step 3:

   

   Wash and peel all vegetables. Cut the potatoes into medium cubes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut the carrots into small cubes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cut the parsley root into small cubes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Also cut the onion into small cubes. If you do not like to feel the onion in the finished soup, you can leave the onion whole, put it in the broth with potatoes and remove at the end of cooking.

7. Step 7:

   

   Finely chop the garlic or cut into plates.

9. Step 8:

   

   Finely chop the parsley.

10. Step 9:

    

    Heat the butter in a frying pan. Add onion, garlic, carrot and parsley root to the pan. Stir-fry for 5-7 minutes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the potatoes, pieces of mackerel and fried vegetables from the pan in a saucepan. Add the bay leaves, season everything with salt and pepper to taste. In addition to these spices, you can add spices for the first fish dishes.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pour about 1.5 liters of water or more into a saucepan if you like soups with a lot of broth. Put the pan on medium heat.

13. Step 12:

    

    Bring the soup to a boil and cook, removing the foam, for about 30 minutes until the fish and potatoes are ready.

14. Step 13:

    

    Remove the pan from the heat, cover with a lid and let the soup brew for 10-15 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Then pour the mackerel soup on plates, sprinkle with chopped herbs and serve to the table. Bon appetit!