How much choppino soup to cook?

Choppino soup is boiled for 2 hours. You need to defrost seafood in advance.

How to make choppino soup

Products
Sole - 1 fish
Small octopuses - 100 grams
Mussels - 200 grams
Onions - head
Canned tomatoes - 1 can
Dry white wine - 200 milliliters
Olive oil - 30 milliliters
Garlic - 2 teeth
Basil - half a teaspoon
Oregano - 1/2 teaspoon
Bay leaf - 2 jokes
Parsley - bunch
Salt to taste
Black pepper - 3 peas

How to make choppino soup
1. Defrost seafood in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
2. Peel and chop the onion and garlic.
3. Pour olive oil into a saucepan and fry the garlic over medium heat for 5 minutes, then remove the garlic (you will no longer need it).
4. In the same saucepan, fry the onion over medium heat for 5 minutes.
5. Add canned tomatoes (with juice), oregano, basil, bay leaves, pepper, mix, cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, remove bay leaves.
6. Pour wine into a saucepan, keep with the lid closed over medium heat for 40 minutes.
7. Wash mussels and octopuses in cool water.
8. Peel the fish of bones, remove the head, tail, fins, cut into cubes 2 centimeters thick.
9. Put mussels, octopus, fish into the soup, season with salt and cook over medium heat until boiling.
10. Remove the pan from the burner, let it brew for 5 minutes.
11. Wash and chop the parsley.
12. Add a tablespoon of parsley and a drop of olive oil to each bowl of choppino soup.

Fusofacts

- The recipe for choppino soup originated in America on the shores of San Francisco, when sailors began to cook it in the 1800s from everything that was in their catch. Since then, any available seafood and fish have been added to the soup according to the recipe.

- Choppino is called Italian-American soup, because it was invented by the Genoese, the first Italians to immigrate to America. The name of the dish from the Genoese language means "chop".

- If the soup is served with crabs, special cutlery must be prepared for them - tongs and a two-pronged fork.

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November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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