Recipe From Campania: Neapolitan-style Fish Soup

INGREDIENTS:

Serves 6

* 1 ½ lb mussels
* 1 ½ lb clams
* 3 ½ lb mixed fish for soup
* 8 cups fish broth
* parsley
* tomato pulp
* 1 onion
* 2 cloves of garlic
* 1 tablespoon parsley
* pepper
* bread slice
* extra virgin olive oil

PREPARATION:

20 minutes preparation + 20 minutes cooking

The best fish for this recipe are: monkfish, John Dory, sole, baby squid, prawns, clams and mussels. Clean and fillet the sole, bone it and cut the other fish into pieces. Peel the prawns, sauté the mussels and clams in a casserole, and filter the resulting liquid with a cloth soaked in cold water and well wrung out.

Pour the oil into a crockpot, lightly brown the chopped onion in it, add the baby squid, mix in some spoonfuls of the filtered mussel and clam cooking liquid, and leave to cook with a lid on. After some minutes, add the chopped tomato, cook for two more minutes, and add all the fish, mussels and clams, prawn tails, the garlic cut into fillets, a generous twist of pepper, the stock, and a little salt.

Bring to the boil and then continue cooking over moderate heat for about 10 minutes. Put slices of bread into individual soup dishes, arrange on top the fish and seafood, cover with a little stock, sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.

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