Russian
Ukha (Fish Soup)
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Ukha (Fish Soup) is Russian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bring 7 cups of water to a boil with the bay leaf and peppercorns.
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Add the chunked potatoes, carrot, and onion and simmer 15 minutes until nearly tender.
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Add the fish fillets in large pieces and simmer 10 minutes until just cooked through.
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Season with salt, discard the bay leaf, and scatter with dill before serving hot.
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Serve it with
A Russian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ukha (Fish Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Ukha (Fish Soup) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Baked Chicken with Potatoes |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 210 kcal
- Protein
- 32 g
- Carbs
- 17 g
- Fat
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 690 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ukha (Fish Soup) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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