Sea Soup Recipe

Ingredients to make sea soup:

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 leeks chopped
• 100 grams fennel or celery, chopped
• 3 garlic cloves minced
• Salt
• pepper to taste
• 1 L of broth or fish stock
• 100cc of white wine
• ½ Kg of tomatoes, peeled and seeded, with their juice
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 2 bay leaf
• 12 clams
• ¼ kg of large shrimp
• ¼ Kg of Haddock
• fresh basil, chopped

How to make sea soup:

1. In a large pot, heat the olive oil over moderate heat.
2. Add leeks, fennel, garlic, salt and pepper and sauté, stirring occasionally, 3 to 5 minutes, or until leeks are softened.
3. Add the broth, white wine, tomatoes, thyme, and bay leaves to the pot.
4. Wait for it to boil, cover, lower the flame and let it simmer for 25 minutes.
5. Add the clams, cover and boil for 5 minutes or until the clams open. (Throw out the ones that don’t.)
6. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the clams to a bowl and cover with aluminum foil.
7. Add shrimp to boil about 3 minutes or until cooked through; stir occasionally.
8. Remove bay leaf.
9. Serve the soup with 4 individual bowls and put 3 clams, add the basil.
10. Serve this Italian-style fish soup with garlic bread.