Garlic-flavored Soup with Cod and Clam
Ingredients
For 4 persons
- 2 cups clams (e.g. common orient clams and short-necked clams) (unshelled)
- 4 slices of cod fillet
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 minced onion
- 2 cloves of minced garlic
- 1 piece of bay leaf
- 1 cup white wine
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup canned whole tomato
- Appropriate amounts of salt and pepper
- 3 potatoes (boiled)
- 12 string beans (boiled)
- Appropriate amount of parsley
- A dash of Hot Sesame Oil
Directions
- Heat oil in a pan, add the minced onion and garlic and saute until translucent. Add bay leaf, soaked and scrubbed clams and white wine, close the lid immediately and then steam over a high heat.
- Turn off the heat as soon as the shells open. Take out the clams and keep them warm. Add 2 cups of water to the pan and boil it for a few minutes before straining.
- Simmer the soup from (2) and canned whole tomato in another pan, add cod fillet and cook over a low heat. Take out the cod fillet and keep it warm. Add salt and pepper to the soup to taste.
- Cut peeled and boiled potatoes into properly-Sized pieces, add them to the soup from (3) and cook until soft.
- Place the cod, the clams, the potatoes and boiled string beans in serving dishes, cover in the soup and sprinkle minced parsley on top.
- Add a dash of Hot Sesame Oil last.
Tips
The spicy flavor of Hot Sesame Oil adds richness to seafood soup.