In general, cooking fish soup at home is not entirely correct, since the most successful dish is obtained at the stake from freshly caught fish (even if it is small gobies or crucian carp). But if it so happened that there is no bonfire or boiler at hand, you can try to reproduce the analogue of this dish using a conventional stove and pan.
To figure out how to cook ear at home, you should choose a recipe. In fact, there are not so many, but still there are certain differences and nuances of cooking, so it is better to determine in advance. Intending to cook this dish, you need to understand that fish should also be chosen correctly. The best option for cooking fish soup is zander, perch or ruff, and not sturgeon or salmon, as some people think. In the worst case, carp or crucian carp may be suitable. Or you can take several types of fish.
Regardless of how to cook the ear, at home it must be done in an enamel bowl and at minimum heat. Also, do not cover the dish during cooking. Even in the classic recipe, vodka is used, which gives the dish transparency and a special taste. For those who categorically do not drink alcohol, this ingredient can be excluded, but the taste will no longer be completely "right."
How to cook ear at home according to a basic recipe
Take 2.5 liters of water, 70 ml of vodka, vegetables (2 onions, 1 carrot, parsley root and 4 potatoes) per kilogram of fish (best perch), spices (bay leaf, peppercorns), a spoonful of butter, salt, dill .
Begin to prepare a dish with vegetables. Potatoes, carrots and parsley root are peeled and diced. Potatoes and onions (whole in a peel) are sent to boiling water, boiled for 10 minutes, then the remaining vegetables are added and left for another 10 minutes, during which the fish is prepared. It needs to be cleaned, washed, cut into several parts, without cutting off the heads and tails.
As soon as the vegetables are ready, you need to salt the fish soup, send fish there, add spices and cook for another 15 minutes. Then add vodka, add butter, catch onion, pepper and bay leaf and remove from heat. Serve sprinkled with chopped dill.
How to cook fish soup at home from pangasius filletIn fact, it turns out not quite an ear, but rather a fish soup. After all, if you cook it from fish fillets, and even more so from pangasius, the result will be completely different, having nothing to do with the classic version. But in urban conditions, it’s sometimes difficult to find a suitable fish, so you have to fantasize and experiment.
For a pound of pangasius, you need to take 2 liters of water, salt, spices to taste, a lot of greens (dill, parsley), as well as vegetables - a couple of potatoes, one carrot and one onion. First you need to boil water, and then add spices and salt there. All vegetables are peeled, finely chopped and sent to the ear in the following order: onions, carrots, potatoes. After each ingredient, the soup must be sure to boil again. Vegetables are left to cook for about 15 minutes, during which they prepare the fish - wash and cut into pieces, and then send them to the ear and boil the same amount.
When the fish is ready, you need to try the dish and, if necessary, add salt, chopped greens and turn off. The dish needs to be allowed to stand with the lid on for about 20 minutes. And it is important to remember that it does not matter how to cook fish soup and what products to use, the main thing is to do it with a good mood and faith in success.