Caribbean Fish Soup recipe

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Ingredients

2 whole fish, scaled and cleaned, or more to taste
1 lemon, juiced
8 cups water
4 green bananas, chopped
1 pound pumpkin, cut into 1-inch pieces, or more to taste
2 potatoes, chopped
2 ears corn, cut into 1-inch pieces
4 ounces carrots, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
½ cup chopped okra
4 scallions, chopped
1 hot chile pepper
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves stripped

Nutrition Info

203.4 calories
carbohydrate: 35 g
cholesterol: 25.5 mg
fat: 3.3 g
fiber: 2.8 g
protein: 11.6 g
saturatedFat: 0.5 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 338 mg
sugar: 3 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Rinse fish with lemon juice, drain.

  2. Bring water to a boil in a large bowl. Add fish, simmer until soft, about 30 minutes. Strain fish, reserving broth. Let fish cool. Remove bones, trying to keep large pieces of fish intact.

  3. Bring broth to a boil. Add green bananas, pumpkin, potatoes, corn, carrots, okra, scallions, chile pepper, garlic, salt, pepper, and thyme. Bring back to a boil. Reduce heat to low, simmer until potatoes are almost tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in fish. Simmer until flavors combine, about 5 minutes more.

  4. Remove soup from heat and let stand before serving, about 30 minutes. Discard chile pepper.

Recipe Yield

8 servings

Recipe Note

Not just a healthy soup, it's very tasty too. I always loved this soup while growing up in the Caribbean. To my surprise it turned out to be a good warm-up drink too. Long story short, as I waited for a bus on a very cold and windy winter evening in NYC, I noticed a West Indian restaurant across the street. I ran in to get a cup of coffee or tea. The last thing on my mind was a bowl of soup. They were about to close and the only thing they had was fish soup. I took a small cup and went back to the bus stop. It warmed me up so much and reached such a good place inside me that I ran back for more.

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