Fish Stock - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 lb fish bones, and trimmings (any white fish such as sole, flounder, or whiting. halibut etc)
    1 onion
    12 sprigs fresh parsley, with long stems
    2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    3 1/2 cups cold water
    1/2 cup dry white wine
Preparation
    Chop fish bones and trimmings and slice onion.
    In a well-buttered heavy saucepan cook fish bones and trimmings with onion, parsley, lemon juice, and salt, covered, over moderate heat 5 minutes.
    Add water and wine and bring to a boil, skimming froth.
    Simmer stock 20 minutes and pour through a fine sieve into a heat proof bowl.
    Stock may be made 3 days ahead and cooled, uncovered, before being chilled, covered.
    Stock keeps, frozen, 3 months.

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