Zurrukutuna is a traditional soup from the Basque Country. A garlic soup with cod and egg that brings a dead person back to life. A strong dish ideal to face the snowstorm that awaits us in the north this weekend. Perfect to enjoy while watching the snowflakes fall through the window.
Zurrukutuna is also a very simple to prepare; you will only dirty a pot. It is a good way to also take advantage of the old bread that we have at home. You will see different ways of making it, with crushed or sliced bread, scrambled or poached egg ... this is mine.
Zurrukutuna, garlic and cod soup
Zurrukutuna is a traditional Basque soup whose main ingredients are cod, bread, chorizo pepper and egg. Perfect to warm up.
Author Maria
Recipe type: Entrance
Rations: 3
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Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 sliced garlic cloves
- 1 dried cayenne
- 90 g. sliced stale bread
- 250 g. desalted cod
- 500 ml. fish broth
- 500 ml of water
- 4 chorizo peppers
- 3 eggs
Preparation
- In a saucepan we heat the olive oil and sauté the garlic and the cayenne until the first one browns, but does not burn! Then we remove the cayenne and half of the garlic from the casserole.
- Meanwhile, we toast the slices of bread until they are very dry, either in the toaster or in the oven.
- We incorporate the bread Crudely crumbled in the casserole (there is part that I put crumbled and part into larger pieces) and stir for a couple of minutes.
- After add the cod and cook until white. It does not need to be done inside.
- When the cod is white we pour the liquids hot, the broth and the water.
- Bring to a boil and cook over low heat 20 minutes stirring the soup from time to time so that it takes shape.
- While the soup is being made, we hydrate the chorizo peppers. When they are already tender, we take them out and scrape with the back of a knife to extract the cane that we will incorporate into the soup.
- After 20 minutes, we break 3 eggs in the soup and put out the fire. With the casserole covered, we let the whites cook.
- We serve the zurrukutuna piping hot.