Showing posts with label Prawn Stock with Carrot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prawn Stock with Carrot. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 April 2017

Prawn Stock with Carrot, Fennel and Ginger

The bag of prawns I bought I had to peel. Instead of discarding the rest, I just thrown away the intestine tract and saved the rest for a stock. It does not take hours to make a stock out of shellfish leftovers, it only takes about 20 minutes.
Using it as a stock base for preparing a tasty soup is great- waste not want not!
This is the second recipes from Andreas Viestad, I made it the way he did and it looked as if the soup tasted great.

Lets see!

recipe for the prawn stock:
heads and casings of 320  g prawns
2 shallots
2 cloves of garlic
2 bay leaves
10 peppercorns
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp olive oil
900 ml water


Heat up the oil in a pot and toss in the rough chopped onions and garlic and give them 3 minutes.
Get the water in.
Add the prawn exteriors and the bay leaves and peppercorns and bring to a boil, reduce the heat and cook for 15 min.
Strain and you have the stock ready.

recipe for the soup:
750 ml Prawn stock
2 grated carrots
1 fine diced fennel
1 knob of fresh grated ginger
1 tbsp sour cream
some fennel fonds
fresh pepper

Heat up the prawn stock and toss is the veggies and the ginger and cook until they are soft.
I did not blend the soup, with the veggies bits it gets some texture, add a bit of pepper.
Add a dollop of sour cream and place a fennel front on top and you are ready to serve.
Depending on the amout of ginger the soup packs a little heat.