Pike heads
Description
You can make soup from any fish and its parts, but pike always makes the soup especially delicious. Besides, pike heads themselves can be cooked in various ways: baked with garlic, boiled, and used to make different tasty main dishes (for example, potatoes with garlic and pike heads). I suggest making exactly soup. And you'll understand why once you've tried it. My recipe: the soup is ready to serve.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. To prepare the fish soup, you will need pike heads (calculate their quantity based on the volume of your pot), potatoes, onion, carrots, herbs, and spices. The pike heads should be thoroughly washed, and the gills and eyes removed.
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Step 2
2. Place the heads in cold water and put the pot on the stove. While the water is coming to a boil, skim off the foam that forms. Once boiling, add salt and seasonings to taste, then reduce the heat and simmer the heads for about 45 minutes.
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Step 3
3. 20 minutes after boiling, add bay leaf and black peppercorns, and in the meantime, peel the vegetables.
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Step 4
4. Finely chop the potatoes, onion, and carrots. We will add all the vegetables to the broth raw.
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Step 5
5. When the heads are ready, remove them from the broth and debone (you can leave a few pieces aside to eat with the fish soup as a snack).
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Step 6
6. Return the meat back to the broth, add the vegetables, and cook until done.
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Step 7
7. At the very end, add fresh herbs (dill and parsley go perfectly with fish soup). Adjust the salt to taste and turn off the heat. Let the soup sit for about 20 minutes, then it's ready to serve.
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Step 8
8. It turns out very delicious, since pike has a wonderful and unique flavor, and fish soup made from this fish is always excellent.