Soup-cappuccino of fennel with crab notes

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I greatly respect and dearly love Italian food. Of course, Italy is not used crab sticks, there is easy access to fresh crabs. Unfortunately, we have such access often do not, therefore, crab sticks and received such wide distribution, as a substitute for real crab meat. But to borrow from Italy the idea of delicious combinations to crab meat - are readily available. Offer you to get acquainted with one of these combinations, common in Mediterranean cuisine - crabs with fennel.

Ingredients for Soup-cappuccino of fennel with crab notes

Step by step instruction of cooking Soup-cappuccino of fennel with crab notes

Шаг 1

For the soup will need a strong vegetable/chicken/fish broth suitable for the taste of the ingredients. You can use frozen.
* I ran out of billet stock, so I had to cook it "in place". I made it out of the parsley root, carrots, onions and sprigs of celery, add Bay leaf, peas of fragrant pepper and fennel seeds.

Шаг 2

For a roast - grind the carrots, onions and celery. The bulbs of fennel crop from the stems, cut into half rings, or other convenient for you way. The green of the fennel and save for decoration.

Шаг 3

In a deep saucepan, which will prepare soup, heat olive oil and fry the prepared carrots, onion and celery about 5 minutes.

Шаг 4

Add the sliced fennel and give it a little extinguished.
*At this stage you can also add it to evaporate dry white wine (optional).

Шаг 5

Pour contents of the pan with the broth. Cover with a lid and leave to simmer for 10 minutes or until vegetables soften.
Then you need to remove the soup from heat, bring to taste by adding salt and pepper, and blend until smooth.

Шаг 6

While the soup cooked on the stove - slice the crab sticks and mix them with lemon juice. With half of the lemon to remove the zest for decoration.
* Crab sticks, grated on a fine grater, be similar in structure to the natural crab meat. Sliced diagonally - make the dish even more beautiful.

Шаг 7

Pureed soup is ready pour into bowls, add a creamy foam, sprinkle with lemon zest and crab shavings, to decorate with greens of fennel.
Sweet taste of crab sticks used in this recipe provides the winning combination, and emphasizes the sweet anise flavor of the fennel.
* Well what can I say? - the Italians know a lot about food. In fact, it turned delicious.