This has to be one of the easiest Spanish dishes to prepare and is one I often fling together when ever I feel like a good honest tasty home made soup prepared and cooked in 45 minutes maximum.
This soup is also ideal if your feeling the effects of the night before or are recovering from a stomach bug and you need something easy to eat.
You will need (serves 4):
1/2 k of Hake or other similar white fish ( Frozen is fine )
1 Large Potato
1 Large RipeTomato
1 Green Pepper
1 Onion
3 Cloves of Garlic
1 Litre of water
Virgin Olive Oil
Salt & PepperLemon
PREPARATION
This is a quick to prepare rustic dish so there's no need to spend to much time on chopping the ingredients into small even pieces, with this dish rough is good. Peel the potato and onion. The slice the potato. green pepper, onion and chop the garlic. Cut the hake into around 4 to 5 large pieces. Place the water into a medium sized saucepan and simply add the Potato, pepper, tomato, garlic, salt and pepper and a small amount of oil to the water, bring to the boil then slowly simmer for about 20 minutes to half and hour in the covered saucepan. Add the hake pieces and slowley simmer for a further 2 minutes then remove from the heat and leave to stand for 3 minutes.Pour in a generous amount of olive oil and the juice of the lemon.
The dish is now ready to serve.
This is one recipe that if you enjoyed the first time , will repeat on many occassions.
Gary
