Light fish soup with bread gnocchi - recipe
Regional speciality Southern Bohemia
Cooking time:2 hrs
This fish soup was once served to the nobility in silver dishes on special feasts. Pampered aristocratic taste buds expected only the best and this dish is no quick fix. This is a carefully prepared soup which combines the flavours of vegetables, spices and fish.
Ingredients for fish stock:
| carp bones and head 2 carrots 1 small celery stick 2 parsnips 1 onion 3 cloves of garlic |
sprig of parsley 6 peppercorns 6 allspice berries 4x bay leaves salt |
Ingredients for the soup:
| 50 g butter 3 tablespoons medium flour 1.5 l fish stock nutmeg salt |
white pepper 1 clove of garlic 250 ml cream fish roe fish milt |
Vegetables for the soup:
| carrot celery parsnip butter |
Ingredients for bread gnocchi:
| 6 slices of white bread parsley salt ground pepper nutmeg |
100 ml cream 3 egg yolks tablespoon of oil fine flour to thicken |
Instructions:
Put the carp bones, head and other leftover bits of fish into some cold water with the peeled vegetables, spices and a pinch of salt. Bring to the boil then turn down the heat and simmer for 1−2 hours.
Bread gnocchi – Dice up some white bread leaving aside the crust and place in a bowl. Add the chopped parsley, salt, pepper and nutmeg, then a little cream which you should leave to soak in. Mix in 3 egg yolks and a little oil, and thicken with flour if need be. The resulting dough should be quite firm (as if making dumplings), so that gnocchi can be gouged out and stay intact. Cook these gnocchi for 5 minutes, then plunge into ice-cold water and leave to drain.
Boil the roe and milt in salted water or fish stock. Cut the vegetables into long strips. As soon as the stock is ready, pass it through a sieve and leave to cool. Heat up some butter in a saucepan, sprinkle in some flour and, after frying for a short while, pour in the stock. Bring to the boil and season with nutmeg, salt, ground pepper and one clove of crushed garlic. Pour in the cream and reduce down.
When serving, each bowl should contain a portion of vegetables, a few gnocchi and the milt and roe mixture, over which the hot soup is poured.
Speciality is served in these restaurants:
| name: | Parkhotel Hluboká nad Vltavou - Hunting cottage [1] |
| place: | Hluboká nad Vltavou |
| meal prices from: | 105 CZK |
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