April 12, 2005
The Noodle King - Fish Soup
I came up with this one the other day. Starting with a pack of ling cod bellies, I made a soup base. Yes, soup bones would have been better but then I didn't have any.
1 cup of sliced celery
6-8 bulbs/cloves of garlic peeled but not sliced
1 large mild onion diced
1 kg of ling cod bellies
2-3 litres of cold water
1/2 can of chicken soup base
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of pepper
1 tablespoon of light soy sauce
Put water, cod, salt, pepper in large pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for one and a half hours. Then add rest of ingredients, bring to a boil again and simmer for another half hour or so.
What normally happens here is that everything is taken out or strained so that all you are left with is the liquid. I didn't bother. Now what you have should be good enough on its own as a soup or you can go further and use this for noodle soup.
Just boil your favourite noodles in a separate pot with some salt. Put cooked noodles in serving bowl. Add fish soup, whole garlic cloves and all and one whole green onion sliced. Oh yeah. I also added some other goodies. Pork hamhock. mmm mmm mmm...
Enjoy! :)
