

SLURP RECIPE
1hrs 10mins
medium
Servings: 6
Bouillabaisse
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 medium bulb fennel, finely chopped
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 100ml dry white wine
- 6 large tomatoes skinned
- 2 pinch of saffron
- 1 small bunch basil, stalks and leaves shredded
- 2 sprigs thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 small orange, zest and juice
- 1 kg mussels, scrubbed and debearded
- 2 fillets seabass, skinned and cut into 5 slices
- 2 fillets gunard or mullet
- 200g crayfish tails or prawns
- ½ small lemon, juice only
- 6 tbsp full fat mayonnaise
- 750ml Borough Broth Sustainably-Caught Wild Fish Bone Broth
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large, deep saucepan. Add the onion and fennel and cook for 5 minutes, or until starting to soften. Add the garlic and tomato purée and stir for 30 seconds. Add the wine, stock and tomatoes. Bring up to the boil, add the saffron, basil stalks, bay, thyme and orange zest. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Discard any mussels with broken shells and any that refuse to close when tapped. Add the mussels, turn in the pan and cover with a lid. Boil for about 4 minutes, or until all of the mussels have opened. Discard any that have not opened. Take the pan off the heat.
- Carefully scoop out the cooked mussels. Reserve 18 mussels, then remove the remaining mussels from their shells and place in a small bowl. Discard the basil stalks, thyme and bay.
- Blend the soup until completely smooth, transfer to a saucepan and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes to reduce. (You should have about 2 litres/3½ pints in total at this point.)
- Season with salt and pepper and add the juice from half the orange. Add the cod and seabass, cover and gently simmer for 3–4 minutes, then return the cooked mussels, reserved mussels in shells and the crayfish tails and heat for another 2–3 minutes, or until piping hot and all of the fish is cooked.
- Spoon into bowls and sprinkle with shredded basil leaves.
- To make the rouille, soak the saffron in the lemon juice and mix together with the garlic and mayonnaise in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper and spoon on top of the bouillabaisse. Raymond serves his with croutons and grated Gruyere cheese. I didn’t do this - is delicious either way.