- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 2 servings
Enjoy this classic fish soup from the South of France garnished with toasts slathered with garlicky rouille.
Ingredient:
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 small onions, thinly sliced
- 2 leeks, white parts only, washed and thinly sliced
- 1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
- 1 (14-ounce) can plum tomatoes, chopped
- 2 pounds tiny whole fish (like porgy or whiting), gutted but with heads intact
- 6 cups water
- 1 bouquet garni (1 parsley sprig, 2 thyme springs, and 1 bay leaf, wrapped in cheesecloth bundle)
- 2 strips orange zest
- 3 saffron strands
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1 ounce Pernod
- Croutons
- Rouille
- Grated Parmesan