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White Fish Broth Soup In 15 Minutes

White fish broth is a tasty, light, and healthy meal in itself. You can make this delicious bowl of healthy white fish soup in minutes from frozen fish and spices that can please your taste buds.

white fish broth with seafood and saffron.

White fish filet is one of the easiest fish to source all around the world, and you can find priced and stocked reasonably in grocery stores.

Cod, haddock, flounder, and tilapia are a few of these common white fish choices available around the world. Even though wild fishes like salmon are healthiest (touted for Omega-3), it’s often more pricey and sometimes hard to find.

You can almost always catch a white fish healthy deal and meal to feed a table tonight that’s loaded with protein, vitamins, and minerals even if you don’t live by the coast.

Considering other dinner and meal alternatives, it’s good healthy value.

In choosing white fish, you may not notice fish taste differences in fish coming from packaged frozen fish sections that are usually mild tasting, compared to the fresh seafood counters that have a fresh and more distinct-to-type fishy taste.

Wherever you go, the most important healthy choice is choosing the “wild” factor.

Wild fish is the healthy choice over farm-raised fish.

Emphasizing wild fish, then you can use the organic skin for flavorful fish broth.

Fish broth has type 1 collagen, that’s especially good for skin and hair. And, who doesn’t want that? 

When I was younger, I was told to avoid the fish skin, but that’s because we ate wild card fish sources that weren’t wild fish. 🎣

But like most white fishes, the white flesh is still a good source of protein, Vitamin D, and Omega-3 healthy fats.

White fish is also a good lighter choice if you’re trying to lose weight.

And if you’re looking to make quick, easy meals… you can pull frozen fish out from the freezer and have a meal like white fish broth soup in minutes.

A zestful soup with so much flavor with tastefully paired spices and spice blends like tarragon, coriander, and my seafood favorite…

I grew up with memories driving to the Maryland beaches, where Old Bay spice is a nostalgic and distinct taste favorite… and for many others who experienced the layer of strong Old Bay celery salt, paprika, and cloves scent in the already salty ocean air. 🌊

A whiff of the spice reminds me of the middle and end of August before Labor Day when the season changes. That’s also back-to-school time. And it was for me too as an 80s teen growing up in the more simple, and happy-go-lucky years.

Carrying the carefree spirit into back-to-school college years, I returned for summers and even worked at Phillip’s Seafood in Ocean City, MD one summer.

Those were the innocent (as in I didn’t know what I didn’t know) days with an unexpected whole new world ahead. We didn’t spend time on smart phones or the internet that didn’t exist.

…We focused on the physical 3-D life in front and around us and played  physical arcade games and enjoying all-you-can-eat crabs as entertainment. 😊

And this 3-D person came home from work smelling like a seafood boil festival.

On the shore, they douse Old Bay on everything… and all seafood. 🍤 Like shrimp, scallops and corn…

Old Bay is also great in fishy broths like the white fish broth (recipe below).

Just adding the seafood magical blend, you’d think you were having a soup from a Maryland seafood restaurant.

And because I planned DC parties in Mediterranean and Spanish cuisine restaurants, I especially like the fishy spice combination with the Spanish spice saffron.

It’s often found in a Paella dish that is not a quick meal, but you can make a saffron white omelet in minutes.

As another idea, you can serve that up with your white fish broth soup.

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White Fish Soup in 15 Minutes From Frozen Fish

This is a delicious restaurant-quality fish soup that's flavorful, light, and healthy. And for wild fish broth, you can get collagen good for aging.
Course dinner, lunch
Cuisine American
Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Ingredients

  • wild white fish, frozen
  • Old Bay
  • saffron threads
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • tarragon
  • shrimp, cooked and frozen (optional)
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • oyster crackers and lemon wedge (garnish)
  • coriander (optional)

Instructions

  • Add a drizzle of oil to a pan and add frozen fish.
  • Cook fish using frozen package instructions.
  • Pour fish juice into bowl. Add fish and spices.
  • Add cooked shrimp and any other seafood desired.
  • Serve with oyster crackers.

Onion Ring + Plant-Based Diet to A Balanced Meal Plan

Onion ring is a healthy stack and snack if baked and not fried. Because onions are one of the healthiest foods out there. They’re prebiotic foods that are fiber and feed the good bacteria in the gut. AND they are great for immunity. Plus they add so much savory flavor without much effort.

Red onion ring recipe below.

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red onion ring stack.

In cold and flu season, I stock up on onions. And they’re such an easy add to foods and plant based dishes.

Plant-based diet doesn’t mean you  have to give up non-plant based foods like meats. It simply means adding more natural plants into your diet (and less processed plants 🏭).

While a full plant-based diet is not what I do, I have incorporated one plant-based meal per day that matters. I share below a meal plan that I think is a good way to maintain a consistently healthy ideal weight, year after year.

Eating healthy and balanced doesn’t just affect your physical body, it also positively impacts your brain, daily thinking mind, and mental health.

Getting proper vitamins and minerals that come from animal proteins help our brains function properly, that helps us keep our mind-body system balance.

I believe that not including fish, meats, carbs, fruits, and vegetables is missing what God gave us here on this earth.

We hurt our bodies when we don’t eat enough from any of these categories, or we eat too much.

In most meals, strict vegetarians don’t receive enough vitamins and micronutrients (minerals), some that are richly found in animal protein.  Fish that are also considered animal meat, contains necessary B vitamins and good omega fat sources that healthy vegetarians usually come to realize they’re missing.

If only we could take vitamin supplements as a 1:1 nutrient exchange for food, but that’s not the case and especially with diluted vitamin pills.

Here’s just a quick journey into how I evolved into my way of eating today…

Journey to My Daily Meal Plan

I’ve eaten the same general diet for over two decades now, which includes the same food categories that are on the nutritional food charts. That may sound boring, but it has worked to keep me at the same ideal healthy weight.

Growing up, the four basic food groups turned into the FDA-approved 23 servings per day pyramid food group that’s still used. In America, we don’t necessarily take FDA rules as gospel as there are always changes, but that should tell us a ‘lil something.

Whether it’s 4 categories or 23 servings, we need many food vitamin sources to function daily, in a healthy way.

When I was a child, my diet contained mostly fruits, vegetables, breads, cereals, rice, pasta, whole milk, yogurt, animal proteins, and too many processed snacks. Like many American diets back then when there were less healthy options, I ate more orange salty snacks than orange fruits.  Definitely as far away from a plant-based diet as one could see.

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