Smoked Haddock Chowder
Ingredients
- 8 oz smoked Cod or Haddock, whatever is available
- About 1/2 pt of milk
- 1 Onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 large potato
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder (depending on your curry powder) you want there to be a hint of curry, not an overpowering taste of curry.
Method
- Put fish in pan with milk and some ground black pepper. Bring just to boiling point and simmer for about 10 mins.
- Chop up carrot, potato and onion, and crush garlic, add curry powder. Sweat in a little butter, or oil, for 15 mins.
- Add about 1/2 pint of water to veg and simmer for another 30 mins until the veg are very soft. Let’s call this pan the soup.
- Strain poaching liquid into the soup.
- Remove skin from fish and add fish to soup.
- Puree soup.
- Simmer for another 10 mins
Caroline and I had the “Covent Garden Fresh Soup” version of this, so I decided to try to make it at home. Came out rather well, I thought.