Italian Fish Soup AKA Chowder

Italian Food:How To Make Italian Fish Soup


Ingredients:

120ml olive oil
3 leeks , cleaned and sliced
2 cloves of garlic , minced
1 onion , peeled and chopped
2 celery stalks , chopped
250g mushrooms , sliced
1ltr GF fish stock
250g tinned tomatoes
150ml dry white wine
5ml cayenne pepper , to taste
450g white boneless fish , cod, sea bass or monkfish, cut into small chunks
900g mixture of crab, shrimp, and mussels , for mussels, scrubbed with the beards removed
fresh parsley , chopped
salt , to taste
freshly ground black pepper , to taste

Needed:

1 large pot
1 wooden spoon
1 ladle

Method:

Heat up the olive oil in a large pot and add the onions, garlic, leeks, celery and mushrooms.
Cook until the onions are clear and soft
Next, add the stock, tinned tomatoes and white wine.
Bring it all to simmering point, add the cayenne pepper and season according to taste.

Put all the fish, including the shellfish with the shells still on, into the pot. This adds to the flavour of the soup.
Continue to simmer until the fish is cooked; about fifteen to twenty minutes.

Once the fish is thoroughly cooked, serve in bowls with sprinkled parsley to garnish.
You could also serve this soup poured over GF pasta