Supreme Italian Fish Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs fish bones, heads and trimmings of various kinds of -fleshed fish
• 2 quarts water
• 2 large trimmed celery ribs
• 1 large thickly-sliced onion
• 3 sprigs parsley
• 2 large ripe tomatoes, peeled seeded,and diced
• salt
• 1 clove crushed garlic
• 2 sprigs finely minced parsley, additional
• tabasco sauce
• 1 lb crabmeat
• 1/2 lb squid, prepared (for cooking)
• 6 mussels, well-scrubbed
• 1 lb lobster (double crab meat if unavailable) (optional)
• 6 clams, well-scrubbed
• 1 1/2 lbs red snapper or 1 1/2 lbs halibut or 1 1/2 lbs sea bass, fish and the like cut into 1 1/2 pieces

Recipe

• 1 place the first 7 ingredients except the salt in a 6.
• 2 quart pot.
• 3 bring to a boil, cover, lower the heat, and simmer for 1 hour.
• 4 skim if necessary.
• 5 cool slightly and pour through a fine strainer lined with several layers of clean cheesecloth.
• 6 papertowels can be substituted.
• 7 season with salt very delicately so as not to overpower the flavor of fish.
• 8 add the garlic, parsley, and tabasco sauce to the fish broth to give it a piquant flavor.
• 9 add the seafood and simmer, half-covered, over the lowest possible heat for 2 hours.