Sicilian Fish Soup with Fennel

This Jamie Oliver recipe was suggested to me by Kate, a CSA member.

Kate wrote, “We just substituted the veggies we had on hand – we used fennel, summer squash, beans, broccoli, onion and used a simple piece of sole/white fish, but chickpeas would work ok too. The chilli pepper from you worked perfectly for spicing up the dish and there were lots of leftovers for lunch!”

Below is the original recipe from Jamie Oliver’s website.

Sicilian Fish Soup with Fennel

Ingredients

  • 1 red onion
  • 2 sticks celery
  • ½ small bulb fennel
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 red chilli deseeded
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil plus extra for drizzling
  • 1 glass dry white wine
  • 800 g chopped plum tomatoes or passata
  • ½ butternut squash peeled and grated
  • 500 ml organic fish stock
  • 200 g salmon fillet from sustainable sources, ask your fishmonger, skinned
  • 300 g halibut fillet from sustainable sources, ask your fishmonger, skinned
  • 12 raw peeled prawns or langoustine tails from sustainable sources
  • ½ lemon
  • 1 large handful fresh flat-leaf parsley chopped

Instructions

  1. Finely chop the onion, celery, fennel, garlic and chilli. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onion, celery, fennel, garlic and chilli and sweat gently until soft. 

  2. Add the wine, tomatoes or passata, squash and stock and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer gently for 30 minutes. Season and gently break up the tomatoes.

  3. Roughly chop the salmon and halibut and add to the pan. Add the prawns or langoustine tails, cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until just cooked.
  4. Taste the soup and season it again with salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice, if necessary.
  5. Serve drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with the chopped parsley.