Yesterday I made the most delicate shrimp soup. It takes really long time to make, but you can always use more pre-maid fish stock and don't peel the shrimps yourself. But I wanted it to be perfect, so I spent 1 hour peeling shrimp, haha.
2-4 portions (depends on how hungry you are)
- 600g unpeeled shrimp
- butter
- 1 yellow onion
- 100g celeriac
- 1 tblsp tomato purée
- 25 cl white wine (not a too sweet sort)
- water
- 4dl milk
- 2-3 tblsp wheat flour
- 1 cube of fish stock (without sodium glutamate, it ruins the taste!)
- salt, cayenne pepper, dill, parsley
- 6 surimi sticks
1. Peel the shrimp (if you buy frozen shrimp, let them melt before you peel). Put the eatable stuff in one bowl, and the rest in a saucepan. Put the bowl with the shrimps in the fridge so they don't get bad. Put a big tblsp of butter together with the non-eatable shrimp leftovers in the saucepan.
2. Peel the onion and the celeriac. Put them together with the shrimp leftovers and fry everything. Make sure it doesn't burn in the bottom of the pan by stirring a lot.
3. Put the tomato purée in the hotch potch. Chop three surimi sticks and put them in there too. Pour the white wine over the mix together with 3,5 dl of water, and put in one cube of fish stock. Let everything boil for 20 mins.
4. Strain off the the mix of firm groceries from the freshly-made broth. Pull so much liquid out of the strainer as possible, you don't want to waste that divine taste! Throw the things in the strainer in the garbage and pour the broth back in the saucepan.
5. Mix the wheat flour together with 2 dl of milk. Pour the rest of the milk in there too. Mix down the milk-flour liquid in the saucepan with the broth. Let it boil for 5 mins (or until you think the consistency is firm enough), don't forget to stir a lot!
6. Serve the soup with chopped surimi pieces and the freshly peeled shrimp, salt, cayenne pepper, parsley and dill! Some kind of rye bread with strong cheese on tastes really good together with this soup. Voilà!
There adorable tea cups costed me only 60 cents each! Where? At a flea market of course!
