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Cullen Skink is a hearty soup that is traditionally made with smoked haddock, and for me a great way to use smoked fish. The name of this soup originates from Cullen, a small town in North East of Scotland and also the home of this soup, one of Scotland's most famous dishes. Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cullen skink (smoked haddock big soup) using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make cullen skink (smoked haddock big soup):
- Take 2 medium potatoes
- Get 2 medium onions
- Take 300 ml water
- Get 250 ml whole milk
- Make ready 2 medium fillets smoked haddock
- Take 1 tbsp fresh coarse chopped flat parsley
- Make ready 1 salt
- Make ready 1 black pepper
- Get 1 butter
- Get 1 vegetable stock cube
Nick Nairn recommends using top quality and undyed smoked. A tasty warming soup originating from Cullen a small coastal town in the North of Scotland, with a unique smoked taste. We stayed at the Cuillin Hills Hotel on Skye the chef's Cullen Skink was to die for I can still taste it. This recipe is very close I believe the difference could be rich cream in the chef's.
Steps to make cullen skink (smoked haddock big soup):
- add milk to shallow pan and slowly cook haddock… add a generous pinch of black pepper
- add a generous knob of butter to a large saucepan and cook onions (finely chopped) for about 5 minutes… do not allow to brown!!!
- add water to onions and add potatoes (I like to use new potatoes cut into half inch cubes) bring up to boil and then simmer until potatoes are almost cooked… crumble in veg stock cube.
- remove cooked fish and set aside… skin bone and flake.
- add cooked milk to potatoes and reduce heat… simmer to thicken… dont be tempted to stir too much as you will break up the potatoes…mashing a few of the potatoes will help to thicken..
- add boned flaked fish and chopped parsley. give it a final stir.
- serve with fresh crusty buttered bread.
Simmer haddock, potatoes, milk, onion and parsley to make this comforting soup. The best Cullen Skink or Smoked Haddock Chowder, to me, should have a subtle creamy base, with each mouthful brimming with the full smoky flavour of the haddock. A real Cullen Skink is a rich and fairly thick soup, thanks to the blending of the soup before the addition of the smoked haddock. Cullen skink is a classic Scottish smoked fish soup with velvety leeks and potato. Add the potatoes and the chopped smoked haddock to the pan.
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