How to Serve Fish Stew

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make Manhattan-style fish chowder or Manhattan-style fish soup. Okay, so here we are after a few minutes on simmer. I can see what's happened is the fish has broken up into small pieces. That's cool. That's what we wanted it to do-whoa--is because that way you get fish in every single bite. This is also the point where you want to do your final seasonings, so I'm going through that and I'll add a little more salt to it. I'm going to go ahead and add just a touch more pepper, maybe just a little more salt. There's that. So we're just going to give this one good stir here and now we are off for service. So let's go ahead and--one last thing, if you're going to serve this all right now, throw your parsley in now and stir it up; otherwise you're going to put the parsley out on the top. I'm not going to serve this all right now. I'm going to put the parsley on each individual bowl as we go. So let's go ahead and see what a finished bowl looks like. So here's our bowl. So let's grab our towel here. And I'm just going to get--you always want to stir it, and let's go ahead and ladle some right into the bowl here. I'll just get two nice big spoonfuls, and there you see the finished product. Now, you'll notice that it--some people might think it's just a little too thick and not enough soup, just too much stuff. It's a matter of preference. This is the way I like it. This is the way I want it to come out. If you want, you can always add some more water to it to thin it out. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take a little bit of that chopped parsley I've got from earlier, put that right on top, and that's pretty much all you need for a garnish, its nice green contrast. And you'll notice here, we have our carrot, we have our celery, we've got our potato here, we've got--let's see--oh, we've got fish in every single bite. I mean, all those lumps, that's nothing but fish. You know, something--you're going to really get a lot of fish out of this. You're going to get fish in every single bite. So, I guess, also you can throw in here besides the fish, you can also throw some of those little hundred-count shrimps, the little tiny ones, or you can throw in some chopped up scallops--basically, anything you've got that's just, like, lying around for seafood or anything you've got you think would be good, goes great in here, but just make sure you keep it at about two pounds or less. So anyway, that being said, I hope you enjoyed watching my video. I certainly enjoyed making it, and I'm off to go eat myself some Manhattan-style fish chowder. Have a good one."