What is Encebollado?
Encebollado is a type of fish soup. It is a national food of the Ecuador where it was created. Encebollado, a relatively simple meal, has only four primary ingredients: fish, tomatoes, onions and yuca. The soup is both pungent and spicy taste. This mixture, known as sofrito, also requires spices common to the Ecuadorian region such as cumin, chilli and coriander. There is also salt. In some versions of Cook also adds some fresh chili peppers. One of the reasons is that tuna is so abundant in the waters near Ecuador. In tuna, Encebollado is a relatively cheap soup as primary protein as primary protein.
In addition to sofrito and tuna, Encebollado recipes include Yuca. Yuca is a root vegetable found in most South America. Highhly coarse and fibrous plants, Yuca provides starch for soup and is the main source of carbohydrates.
To make this simple fish soup, one first prepares the base. This requires frying tomatoes, onions and spices in some oil. During this step is the requestAddition only medium heat.
After completing the base, the chef adds water to it and cooks tuna for about 15 minutes until it is boiled all the way. During this process, the coriander adds to the resulting fish broth. Then the tuna is discarded and exhausted and the yuca is cooked in the fish broth until the roots are fine but firm. After cooking Yuco roots, they are removed from the broth so that their rough strings can be removed and roots chopped. Adding Yuc and Tuna back to the broth with some salt completes the main part of the fish soup.
usually top encebollado with pickled Onions and tomatoes. Salsa is sometimes used except or instead of these watering. Another option is to replenish the soup with some other slices of chili pepper. Some chefs liked to sprinkle a bowl with a little lemon juice and sometimes served slices of lime.
It is assumed that Encebollado works well as a domestic cure for a hangover. His manInvestigations can be based on the fact that fish oil helps to get rid of free radicals that result from the disintegration of alcohol in the body. Restaurants in Ecuador often sell soup in the morning for this reason, although it is also universal enough to work for lunch and dinner.