Fish Soup (Flavorful and Easy!)

This hearty fish soup is packed with flavor. An easy seafood stew recipe that can be ready and on your dinner table in about 30 minutes. The soup is filled with cod fillets, shrimp, and mixed vegetables in a rich tomato broth.

This fish soup is a simpler alternative to my favorite Italian-American fish stew dish, Cioppino. It's so easy and quick to make, yet extremely flavorful!

This super easy seafood soup is made from scratch using simple ingredients that many people can find at their local grocers or pantry.

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Fish Soup Ingredients:

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This seafood soup is made by combining seafood with vegetables in a rich tomato broth. Feel free to customize the ingredients to your own liking and based on availability.

• Fish
• Shrimp or shellfish
• Yellow onion
• Carrots
• Celery
• Garlic
• Parsley
• Dry white wine. You can use either Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, and unoaked Chardonnay.
• Crushed tomatoes
• Claim juice or homemade seafood stock
• Thyme

Fish: I used cod fillets, but any white fish such as halibut, sea bass, or red snapper would also be fine.

Shellfish: In this recipe I used shrimp. Crab, lobster, clams, scallops, or mussels are great alternatives to shrimp.

A Delicious Fish Soup Base:

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The seafood stew recipe begins with basic ingredients used in making a stock; carrots, celery, yellow onion, parsley, and garlic.

I let everything simmer along with the other soup ingredients; crushed tomatoes, water, clam juice, white wine, thyme, and saffron.

Now, let's talk about saffron and clam juice. These ingredients are optional but definitely make for the "secret ingredients". They can add depth and flavor to this and other fish and seafood recipes.

If you don't have saffron in your pantry, feel free to skip it. Saffron has a very subtle flavor and aroma. It's one of the most important ingredients for dishes like paella and bouillabaisse but isn’t a make-or-break ingredient in this particular recipe.  That said, I liked the extra hints of flavor it did bring.

Clam Juice is usually made from the liquid used to steam fresh clams when strained and mixed with salt. It's a must-have pantry staple. You can use it to flavor various sauces, seafood dishes, or in soup bases.

In this recipe, I used Bumble Bee Snow's Clam Juice. If you don't have this product in your pantry then feel free to skip it or make your own seafood stock from shrimp shells. I am going to show you how to make it on the recipe card below.

Crushed Tomatoes are made from fresh tomatoes that are peeled, seeded and crushed then mixed with tomato puree to create a coarser texture than tomato sauce, but smoother than diced tomatoes.

How to Make Fish Soup:

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1.      Cook the basic ingredients for the soup base for about 10 minutes.

2.      Add white wine and cook just until it evaporates.

3.      Add the remaining soup ingredients and let them simmer for about 10 minutes.

4.      Add the fish and shrimp. The cooking process should take about 3 minutes... so quick!

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