Dried fish soup
Have you ever heard of Harðfisksúpa? No? Me neither - but when I came across it at a competition about typical Icelandic dishes, I immediately knew: I had to try it!
When shopping in the Icelandic grocery store, we were a bit shocked at first: Icelandic moss is quite expensive. After a long search, we finally found - comparatively cheaply - a pack with 50 g of Icelandic moss for a good 1,000 ISK (around €8). After an intensive price comparison, we found the 200 g pack of Harðfiskur for a good 1,200 ISK (just under €10). The ground seaweed costs around 1,000 ISK for 50 g, but you only need half a teaspoon of it... The crabs also cost around 1,000 ISK in the store. Added to this is the vegetable broth. If I ignore the vegetable broth and reduce the remaining ingredients to 1 portion, I come to around 700 ISK, or around €5.60 for the ingredients. That sounds pretty civil after all.
By the way, one serving has around 145 kcal, around 1 g fat, 10 g carbohydrates and 30 g protein. I had trouble finishing my portion and was absolutely full afterwards. The food smelled a bit like "a walk by the sea", but it actually tasted really nice!
Ingredients for 4 servings
750 ml vegetable broth
100 g dried fish
50 g Icelandic moss
100 g crabs
1/2 tsp seaweed salt
Preparation
Carefully chop up the Icelandic moss and grind it finely.
Also grind the dried fish thoroughly and finely.
Heat the vegetable broth in a large pot, add the ground moss and ground dried fish to the vegetable broth and simmer for a few minutes.
Stir and add the shrimp...
Season with the seaweed (as a salt substitute)...
...and then serve straight away!
[Translated from here.]
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