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

  1. Put fish in pan with milk and some ground black pepper. Bring just to boiling point and simmer for about 10 mins.
  2. Chop up carrot, potato and onion, and crush garlic, add curry powder. Sweat in a little butter, or oil, for 15 mins.
  3. 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.
  4. Strain poaching liquid into the soup.
  5. Remove skin from fish and add fish to soup.
  6. Puree soup.
  7. 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.