Soups ~ Fish Tea (Fish Soup Cayman Style)

Fish Tea (Soup) Cayman Style Recipe

Serves 2 – 4

INGREDIENTS :

• 3lbs medium size fish (Your choice of either Snapper, Barracuda, Grouper, Wahoo, Turbot or that type of fish)
• 1lb Fish fillet or cut up
• About 4 quarts water
• 2 large cloves garlic
• 1 medium-size onion
• 1 sprig thyme or  ½ teaspoon dry thyme
• 3 stalks spring onions (Scallion)
• 2 medium white potatoes (optional)
• The Caribbean or local Pumpkin
• Cassava (optional)
• Green Bananas (optional)
• Breadfruit (optional)
• Yellow Yam (optional)
• Corn on the cob or canned corn (optional)
• Carrots
• 1 small scotch bonnet pepper
• salt to taste
• black pepper to taste
• A few pimento seeds or a dash of allspice
• 2 medium limes

METHOD:

1.       Wash and clean fish with lime water or vinegar & water and drain

2.       Combine the whole fish, chopped up onion, garlic, salt black pepper in water to boil until all of the fish meat has separated from the fish bones. Cut or mash-up fish in small pieces if you want it to go thicker. Boiling times depend on the size of the pot.

3.       Pour the fish contents through a strainer and remove all or most of all bones etc.

4.       Cut up white potatoes, breadfruit, pumpkin, green bananas, cassava, yellow yam in small 1 inch squares and add to the mix. Bigger the pot of fish soup then add more or less to your desired liking.

5.       Let the soup simmer, then add spring onions, thyme, hot pepper, diced carrots, corn pimento/ or allspice.

6.       Add more cut-up chunks fish fillet (optional)

7.       Simmer another 10 – 20 mins. It depends on the size of your pot.

8.       When I do mine I cut up bananas and other products like yams in it and it becomes a full meal. oh, by the way, don’t break the hot pepper unless you want it to be spicy!