carrot soup with fried saithe

Hanging around copenhagen on these chili days has made me so excited that i know how make soups. This is one i made the other day with Brianna. It was great, and then we added some fried fish, because we were really hungry.

I started off by adding

• 1 peeled then chopped white onion
  
• 2 cloves of garlic, smashed and finely chopped up
  
• 1 tbs of olive oil

to a pot at med-high heat. I used a wooden scraper/stirrer thing i got at the christmas market. It is perfect for soups.

Once they had softened i added

• 3 carrots washed and chopped up
• 1 top of thumb sized piece of chopped ginger
• 1 medium sized kaffir lime leaf
  
• 2 tsp curry powder

then let cook for a couple min, stirring. Then add

• 2.5 cups of water
  
• a vegetable bouillion cube

Let boil for 20 min.

Blend, then add 1/2 cup of coconut milk and continue to cook for a couple min before serving. At low.

Now for the fish, i bought some saible...im pretty sure thats the right name and i heard it good for frying. So i decided to crust them up and have them with the soup.

I started by having two bowls.

1. one filled with mixture of an egg and a tbs of coconut milk
2. one filled with mixture of breadcrumbs and tsp of salt

I used one hand to dip the fish into the first bowl and then another hand to remove it from the second bowl so doesnt get sticky. Its important to not get the bad clumps in your hands...hand work is everything.

Dip it in first bowl and then second bowl. Then flip and make sure they are completely coated with bread crumbs.

Fry them in a tbs of olive oil, ill got some nice brown edges. Should not take more then 4 min a side.

They were so delicious, with just a slice of lime to give them a touch more flavour.

Enjoy guys.