Fish soups are prepared according to similar recipes, but their taste can be completely different. Try, for example, to cook trout soup and pike fish soup, and you will understand how different first courses from different types of fish are from one another. Catfish soup also has completely unique organoleptic qualities. Many gourmets even prefer this type of first course over all others. However, in order for the food not to disappoint, you need to know how to prepare it correctly.
Catfish soup recipe
This dish will be a wonderful gift for lovers of seafood cuisine. Rich fish soup (the fish soup is still cooked over a fire, but this is just my belief) can, of course, also be done on gas. It goes well with greens at the end of cooking and a glass of fire water at the beginning of eating. And in order not to make mistakes when cooking, use my recipe for catfish soup.
Ingredients:
- Catfish - 1 pc.
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Hercules - 1 tbsp. l. (Can be replaced with millet.)
- Bay leaf - to taste
- Salt and pepper - to taste
How to cook:
- Cut the catfish into pieces and place in boiling water. Boil for 20 minutes.
- Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes.
- Peel the onion and chop finely.
- Wash the carrots, peel them, cut into slices.
- Remove the catfish and remove all the bones. The broth must be strained and the fish returned. Put everything on fire. As soon as it boils, add the prepared vegetables and rolled oats. Add salt, pepper, bay leaf and let simmer for 10 minutes.
- Let it brew a little. Pour into plates. Bon appetit!
The main thing is not to be afraid. Everything will work out.
Homemade catfish soup
This recipe for making catfish should appeal to lovers of aromatic, homemade fish soup.
Required ingredients:
- Catfish steaks - 400 g.
- Potato tubers - 3 large pieces.
- Blue onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 large piece.
- Fresh parsley or dill.
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp.
- Bay leaf, salt, black pepper - to taste.
Thaw the steaks, squeeze out the water. Place in a deep saucepan, fill with clean water and place on the stove. It is important to fill the fish only with cold water.
As soon as the water starts to boil, add the peeled onion, pepper and bay leaf. Cook the broth for 15 minutes over low heat. Then strain the broth through cheesecloth, remove the fish and place on a plate. Pour diced potatoes and carrots into the broth. Cook until the vegetables are ready. Return the catfish pieces back to the pan, add lemon juice and chopped parsley or dill.
A stunning ear is ready! Everything is as simple and fast as possible.
How to cook thawed catfish
In trade, pieces of cut and gutted catfish are more common.
Preliminary preparation includes several stages:
- Defrosting. If the recipe requires removing the skin, then you should not defrost the fish completely right away. It is enough to keep the fish at room temperature for half an hour. This makes it easier to remove the skin without tearing the flesh. After this, the catfish is thawed completely under the same conditions. Hot water and microwave ovens are not allowed. It is best to use the dry defrosting method at room temperature. To speed up the process, the fish can be placed in cold water.
- Cleaning. Fins, if present, are removed from the pieces. Cleanses the skin of scales. A whole catfish is cut along the belly and gutted.
- Rinsing under running water. If necessary, the catfish is cut into pieces.
- Soaking in saline solution. Salt is dissolved in water in an amount sufficient for a rich salty taste. The procedure makes the fish flesh more elastic.
Catfish soup
Ingredients:
- 2 catfish steaks (700g.)
- 400 grams of onions
- 500 grams of potatoes
- 2 liters of water
- salt, pepper, bay leaf
- greens for serving
How to cook:
- We clean the onions, wash them and chop them not very finely, you can just use half rings. I like it when there are a lot of onions in my ear.
Pour water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add onion and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
- Thaw the catfish steaks, wash and cook together with the onion until cooked. Salt to taste and add 5 - 6 peppercorns.
- While the fish is cooking, peel the potatoes and cut them as you like, I like them into strips.
- Remove the cooked fish from the broth, add the potatoes and cook until done.
While the potatoes are cooking, cut the catfish into pieces, removing the bones. In our family, everyone loves boneless soups; those who don’t care about this can skip this step.
- At the end of cooking, add bay leaves and pieces of cooked fish, bring to a boil and turn off.
- Add chopped green onions and dill to the bowls with fish soup and serve. Your family will definitely like this appetizing and satisfying catfish soup.
Bon appetit!
Cooking features
The process of preparing catfish soup is not complicated or lengthy, but it has certain specifics. To get the best results, the cook needs to know and take into account several important points.
- On sale you can find different types of catfish (motley, blue). For soup, blue is considered the most suitable. If the first course is made from mottled catfish, it may have a barely noticeable bitterness.
- When purchasing catfish, you need to make sure that its expiration date has not expired. It is advisable to choose pieces coated with the thinnest possible layer of ice glaze. Housewives often complain that when thawing 2-3 steaks they have to drain a whole glass of liquid, which is a lot.
- Before cooking the soup, the catfish must be thawed. This must be done under natural conditions, without exposing the product to sudden temperature changes. Trying to speed up the process using a microwave or warm water will not lead to anything good.
If you want the catfish soup to be rich, pour cold water over the fish, bring to a boil and cook for 20-30 minutes. Then the broth is filtered. The catfish pieces are cooled, the fish fillet is separated from the skin and bones. Then the soup is cooked in fish broth, into which the boiled catfish fillet is added very shortly before the dish is ready. There is another technology for preparing catfish soup, when raw pieces of fish fillet are added 5-10 minutes before the dish is ready, dipping them into boiling water. Thanks to this, they retain their shape better. The main components of fish soup, apart from fish, are usually potatoes, carrots and onions. To make your catfish soup more filling, you can add rice, rolled oats or millet. Sometimes the usual set of vegetables is supplemented with bell peppers, stem celery, and tomatoes. For flavor, the fish soup is seasoned with finely chopped herbs. Some cooks season fish soup with sour cream, butter or heavy cream, thanks to which it acquires pleasant creamy notes. If you season your fish soup with fresh herbs, allow the soup to boil for a few minutes after adding this component, otherwise it will quickly spoil. You should not cook the dish for a long time after adding greens, otherwise it will become less aromatic.
The fish soup will be more tasty and aromatic if it is allowed to steep a little under the lid before serving.
Creamy fish soup is better than Finnish fish soup and can be prepared in 20 minutes
For those who are tired of salads and heavy hot dishes, I suggest an excellent fish soup.
Catfish fish soup is the first dish that is perfectly absorbed by the body, enriching it with calcium, phosphorus and vitamins A and D.
Outwardly, catfish, of course, looks intimidating, but its meat is not inferior in taste even to sturgeon. Let's make soup with such healthy and tasty fish.
Ingredients:
- Hot smoked catfish (cod or perch) – 250-300 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Onion - half
- Cream 33% – 50 ml
- Butter - 30 g
- Flour - 7 g
- Dill - bunch
- Salt
- Pepper
Preparation:
- Pour water into a saucepan and place it on the fire to heat up. Add bay leaf, skin and bones from smoked catfish. Cook the broth for 15 minutes.
- Cut half the onion into cubes and fry in a frying pan with butter.
- Cut the potatoes into small cubes so that they cook faster.
- Strain the broth through a sieve and pour it back into the saucepan. Send to the fire, add fried onions and diced potatoes. There should be a lot of potatoes, half of the total volume of broth.
- In a small bowl, mix 7 grams of flour (this volume is about 2 liters of soup), 50 milliliters of heavy cream and a small amount of water. Add a pinch of salt.
- Tastes the soup for salt; if necessary, add more salt. But don't forget that the fish is salted. Add finely chopped dill stalks to the soup.
- When the potatoes are almost cooked, add the fish to the soup. The fish should boil for three to four minutes. Salt and pepper to taste and add the creamy flour mixture in parts. Cook over low heat for three minutes.
Add finely chopped dill leaves to the finished soup.
Calorie table
Dish | Serving Size | KBZHU |
Soup with vegetables in fish broth | 100 g | Calories - 65 kcal, proteins - 3.1 g, fats - 2.3 g, carbohydrates - 2 g |
Chowder with cheese and cream | 100 g | Calories - 72 kcal, proteins - 4 g, fats - 4.5 g, carbohydrates - 2 g |
Catfish soup with rice | 100 g | Calories - 35 kcal, proteins - 3.2 g, fats - 2.4 g, carbohydrates - 2.9 g |
Catfish is a healthy and tasty fish with very soft and juicy meat. Steaks make an excellent chowder, into which you can add a variety of vegetables, cream or cheese, and grains. Recipes with photos of fish soups called catfish are the best you can come up with for novice cooks. However, you still need to cut the carcass correctly, otherwise you can ruin even the simplest dish.
Catfish soup with vegetables
Ingredients:
Catfish steak | 2 pcs. |
Potato | 2 pcs. |
Carrot | 1 PC. |
Onion | 1-2 onions |
Bulgarian pepper | 1 PC. |
Spices (pepper, bay leaf) | taste |
Greens (dill, parsley, onion) | taste |
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Cooking method:
- Catfish is not popular with all housewives - many simply do not know which way to approach its delicate white-transparent meat. In fact, you can cook wonderful catfish dishes very easily and incredibly quickly, you just need to know a few little secrets. One of them is that before frying, catfish meat should be breaded so that it does not turn into shapeless transparent jelly in a frying pan. The next secret is - when baking a steak in the oven, place a side dish underneath it - let it soak in the delicately fatty, sweetish gravy. And there is one more little secret - catfish soup is an original, healthy and surprisingly easy to prepare dish.
- Preparing the soup will take only 25 minutes, and you will need the most common ingredients - potatoes, carrots, onions, fresh pepper, salt, spices. Well, the highlight of today’s dinner is catfish. Its meat is extremely tasty and healthy.
- First, chop the vegetables into circles, potatoes can be cubes or strips. Cut the catfish into large cubes. Place potatoes and carrots in boiling salted water and cook for 10 minutes. Add pepper, bay leaf, and spices to taste. Now place the onions and fish in a saucepan with boiling broth. After just 5 minutes, remove the pan from the heat, add dill and other herbs. Let the soup brew. After 10 minutes, the first course, tender in taste and at the same time nutritious, is ready!
Be sure to place the catfish in boiling salted water, otherwise the liquid fish meat will disintegrate into watery fibers.
Useful tips and tricks
The following tips will help you prepare the discussed fish soup deliciously:
- for satiety, not only potatoes and cereals, but also pasta, cheese balls, dumplings, eggs can be added to the dish; 8
- The best spices for soup are white pepper and any dried vegetables;
- You should not store the finished treat for longer than 2 days, but it is better to eat it immediately after preparation.
Catfish soup can be prepared either according to the simplest or more original recipes. For example, from smoked fish, with cream, with cereals, frozen vegetables.
Recipe for making catfish soup with millet
You will need:
- 4 potatoes,
- 1 small catfish carcass,
- 1 carrot,
- 1 tbsp. millet or rolled oats,
- Bay leaf,
- pepper,
- salt.
How to cook catfish soup:
- Cut the fish into pieces and place in a pan of boiling salted water and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Peel and dice the potatoes,
- finely chop the onion,
- grate or chop the carrots into small pieces.
- Remove the fish from the broth
- separate the fillet from the bones, strain the broth,
- put the fillet, add rolled oats and chopped vegetables, bay, pepper, salt, boil for 10 minutes until the vegetables are ready and season with herbs before serving, letting it brew a little.