New Zealand Seafood Recipes
HOT SMOKED SALMON & ORZO SOUP
Ingredients
Preferred measurement of units
Serves 4
4 cups fish, vegetable or chicken stock
2 cups water
1 cup orzo (rice-shaped pasta)
200g7 oz hot smoked salmon, broken into small pieces
¼ cup basil pesto
2 courgettes, trimmed & cut into small dice
Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
Method
Bring stock plus water to the boil in a large saucepan.
Pour in orzo & cook for 5 minutes until beginning to swell in size.
Add salmon, pesto & courgettes & simmer for 5-10 minutes more until soup is thick & pasta cooked.
Season to taste & serve.
Recipe kindly supplied by Kathy Cunningham, director of the Auckland Seafood Festival.
Salmon
Omega 3: Very high Omega-3
Color when cooked:
- Orange
Flesh:
- Oily
- High in beneficial Omega-3s
Cooking Methods:
- Bake
- BBQ
- Casserole
- Curry
- Microwave
- Marinate
- Poach
- Smoke
- Steam
- Sushi / raw
- Fry