Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Cod and Tomato Chowder

Cod and Tomato Chowder.

You can have Cod and Tomato Chowder using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cod and Tomato Chowder

1. It's 3 tbsp of olive oil.
2. You need 2 of celery sticks, trimmed and roughly chopped.
3. Prepare 2 medium of onions, peeled and roughly chopped.
4. It's 2 large of carrots, peeled and roughly chopped.
5. You need 2 large of waxy potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped.
6. Prepare 1 of yellow pepper, roughly chopped.
7. It's 2 of thyme sprigs.
8. It's 1 of bay leaf.
9. It's 400 grams of tinned choped tomatoes.
10. Prepare 900 ml of fish or chicken stock.
11. Prepare 150 grams of green beans, cut short.
12. You need 2 of courgettes, roughly chopped.
13. It's 1 dash of tobasco sauce (optional).
14. Prepare 600 grams of cod fillets, skinned and deboned.
15. You need 1 bunch of flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped.

Cod and Tomato Chowder step by step

1. Heat the olive oil in a heavy based pan. Add three onions, celery and some draining and cook, stirring, over a medium heat for 6-8 minutes to soften. Add the carrots, potatoes, yellow pepper and herbs and saute for 5 minutes until the vegetables are lightly golden..
2. Add the tomatoes to the pan and pour in the stock. Cover and simmer for about 7-9 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Now tip in the green beans and courgettes, give the mixture a stir and simmer for another 3 minutes. Check the seasoning, adding a few dashes of Tabasco or chilli if you want spice..
3. Lightly season the cod fillets and lay them on the vegetables in the pan. Cover the pan again and simmer for 3-4 minutes until the fish is opaque and just cooked through. Gently break the fish into large flakes and serve..