Uha is a national Russian dish, a kind of soup made from fish. The most delicious and real fish soup is cooked at the stake from freshly caught fish. But such an opportunity is extremely rare for us. Usually, an alternative to a fresh catch is a purchased fish, which can now be purchased at almost every grocery store, the main thing is that it is fresh, without foreign smells and preferably without repeated frosts.
There are a lot of recipes for fish soup, and the housewives have their own secrets of its preparation: adding vodka to the ear, using whole onions and carrots instead of frying, cooking fish in gauze or strainer and others.
Many people think that ear in a slow cooker turns out to be especially tasty (we will give recipes in this article). The fish gives all its taste to the broth, the potatoes are not digested, the dish has an incredible aroma. In addition, the use of a slow cooker significantly speeds up and simplifies the cooking process.
Cooking Tricks
There are several secrets in making fish soup , which will make it especially aromatic and tasty. We offer to get to know them:
- In order to give the broth transparency and taste to its particular richness, professional chefs advise adding a glass of vodka to it at the last stage of the preparation of the soup.
- In order for even the ear cooked in a slow cooker to have the aroma of smoke from a fire, you can go for a trick. To do this, take a thin branch of birch, set fire to it. And when the ear is ready, put out right in the multicooker bowl.
- To make the taste of fish soup more intense, it is necessary to add aromatic herbs to it.
- Improve the color of the cooked broth will help dipped in an unpeeled bulb.
- The secret of a successful ear is to prevent a strong boil.
- Experienced cooks salt the ear at the very end of cooking.
Which fish is better?
For fish soup in a slow cooker, as well as for fish soup cooked on a stove or fire, you can use any fish and all its parts. The tail, head and even bones will give the broth a thick and good broth, and a few pieces of fillet will provide a beautiful look and taste. When choosing a product for broth, it is better to give preference to salmon, pike, pike perch. But herring fish are not suitable for the broth.
Classic recipes
Components:
- A pound of fish.
- A pound of potatoes.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion head.
- Greens.
How to cook:
- Vegetables should be washed and peeled. Dice potatoes, chop onions, carrots to form the shape of sticks or slices.
- Remove the scales from the fish, rinse, cut.
- Put vegetables in the capacity of the multicooker, on top - pieces of fish. Fill components with water to the mark. Add 1/3 of the prepared seasonings and turn on the "Extinguishing" mode.
- Ten minutes before the end of the program, chopped dill, laurel and the remaining seasonings should be added to the ear.
- After the pressure cooker signal, you should not open the multicooker lid for some time, then the ear will infuse in it and it will become even tastier.
Ear with millet or rice
If you need to cook a more rich and satisfying ear, then you can add a little grain to it. Traditionally, it is millet or rice. According to his recipe, an ear in a multicooker with cereals is not very different from the classical one.
Stages of preparation:
- Wash carrots, potatoes, onions, peel, cut.
- Rice or millet is well washed.
- We clean and cut the fish.
- We lay all the products, fill with water and set the mode to "Soup" or "Stewing".
- Add spices at the end.
How to cook fish soup in a multicooker from catfish
To get a hearty soup in a multicooker made from catfish, the tail or head of the fish is ideal. Despite the fact that catfish lives in rivers, in a slow cooker it turns into a fragrant soup without specific odors.
The composition of the soup includes:
- Catfish.
- Millet.
- Potatoes.
- Bow.
- Carrot.
- Parsley
- Spice.
- Vegetable oil.
Very tasty will be cooked in a slow cooker ear from the head of a catfish.
Step by step recipe:
- Peel, chop, put vegetables in a miracle pot.
- Pour washed millet from above.
- Rinse the soma very well from mucus and cut it arbitrarily.
- Add spices, laurel, pour water, cook on the “Soup” program.
- At the end of cooking, add oil and let the dish brew with the lid closed.
Bouillabaisse
This is a gourmet Mediterranean ear.
Butcher red fish and tiger prawns. Pour olive oil into the pressure cooker bowl, put the garlic plate and chopped parsley, simmer in the "Baking" mode. After 5 minutes add slices of carrots and celery, stew for 5 minutes. After pouring 200 ml of sambuca and white wine and bring to a boil. Add trim from fish and shrimp, cook for a couple of hours. If necessary, add another glass of water. Strain the broth, add the tomatoes, mashed with a fork, pieces of fish, shrimp, mussels, scallops, chili pepper. Cook for 15 minutes, then let it brew.
Royal ear
Below, we’ll look at how to cook royal fish soup in the Redmond multicooker. For this we need:
- Sturgeon, cod, pike perch - 200 g each
- Potatoes, onions, carrots - 2 each.
- Perlovka - 3 tbsp.
- Fresh greens.
- Black pepper and allspice.
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
- Lemon.
Recipe:
- Rinse the barley and soak for a couple of hours (preferably at night).
- Peel and chop carrots and potatoes.
- Chop one onion.
- Cut the fish fillet into portions.
- Pour a bowl of multicookers with water, put vegetables, cereals, a whole onion, spices and cook in the “Steaming” mode.
- After the device beeps, place the pieces of fish in the bowl and turn on the same mode again.
- After the specified time, lay a bay leaf in your ear, add salt and leave it on the “Heating” function for fifteen minutes.
- When serving, put a slice of lemon and greens in each plate.
Lohikeito - fish soup in a multicooker in Finnish
An unusual dish that is very popular in Karelia.
Products:
- Salmon fillet (0.5 kg).
- Soup set of salmon.
- Leek (1 pc.).
- Onions (1 pc.).
- Potato (5 pcs.).
- Celery (1 pc.).
- Cream (glass).
- Butter (1/4 pack).
- Flour (1 tablespoon).
- Thyme (2 pcs.).
- Dill.
Recipe:
- We put in the bowl the soup set, the white part of the leek, onion, cut in half, spices, celery, thyme, chopped potatoes (3 pcs.).
- Pour water into the bowl and set the “Soup” program.
- After the time has passed, we take out the potatoes and make mashed potatoes from it.
- Filter the broth, pour into the bowl, add the remaining potatoes (cube) and turn on the “Soup” mode again for 10 minutes.
- Cut the fish fillet into pieces and add to the slow cooker, continue cooking until the potatoes are ready.
- In mashed potatoes, add flour and cream, mix.
- We spread the mashed potatoes in the ear, season with butter and cook in the “Heating” mode for 10 minutes.
- When serving, sprinkle with dill.
Finnish fish soup can be cooked for the future, because on the second day it becomes even tastier.