Bouillabaisse - marseille style fish soup

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1½ kilograms Fish (mullet, bass, cod, snapper)
10 smalls Crabs
25 grams Butter
3 Onions
4 Garlic cloves
2 Tomatoes
1 Branch Fennel
1 Bouquet garni
1 Piece of Orange peel
1 kilograms Potatoes
1 Dose Saffron
½ cup Olive Oil
Salt Pepper
12 Dry Bread slices
2 Garlic cloves
2 smalls Chilies
1 Egg Yolk
1 cup Olive Oil
1 small Crustless Bread slice
½ cup Milk

Directions

ROUILLE

Simmer the minced onions, potato slices (1 cm thick), and all other ingredients except the crabs for 1 hour. Before serving, remove the fish, and fill to cover the pot with boiling water and continue to boil. 5 minutes later add the crabs and fish, and boil for 5 more minutes.

Delicately remove the potatoes and fish, and put them in an oblong plate.

Filter the bouillon that you will serve in a tureen, the rouille in a sauceboat, and the bread slices in a plate.

Rouille: In a mortar crush the garlic and chillies, add a bit of bread soaked in milk and squeezed, the egg yolk and slowly add the olive oil.

This sauce will be diluted with 2 tablespoons of fish broth. Each guest puts two slices of bread in his soup plate, then soup, and carefully add the rouille which is HOT, the potatoes anf fish can be added later or eaten at the same time. Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by gladysdinletir@... (Gladys Dinletir) on Jul 07, 1997

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