How long to cook cocoa?

Cook the soup for 1 hour, then leave for 15 minutes. It takes half an hour to cook soup in the kitchen.

How to cook cocoa

Products

Sea bass (or any other not large sea fish) – 1 kilogram

Potatoes – 3 large tubers

Onion – 2 large heads

Lemon juice – juice made from half a citrus

Olive oil – 0,5 cups

Water – 5 glasses

Pepper – on the tip of a teaspoon

Salt -1 teaspoon

How to cook cocoa

1. 1 kg of sea bass clean, gut, trim off the fins and rinse with cold water.

2. Cut the fish into 6 pieces.

3. Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into 4 elongated slices.

4. Peel 2 onions and chop finely.

5. Get juice from half a lemon using a juicer.

6. Pour olive oil into a deep saucepan, heat over medium heat and add chopped onion.

7. Fry onions until golden brown for 3 minutes.

8. Add chopped potatoes to the onion in a saucepan, stir and fry for 10 minutes over medium heat without a lid.

9. Add pieces of fish to the bowl, stir and fry for another 5 minutes.

10. Pour 5 glasses of water into a saucepan for fish and vegetables, add pepper and 1 teaspoon of salt, mix.

11. Increase heat and simmer for 25 minutes; every 5 minutes, the foam should be removed from the cocoa.

12. After the time has elapsed, remove the saucepan with the soup from the stove, pour in the lemon juice, stir and cover; insist 15 minutes.

13. Before serving cocoa with a slotted spoon, catch fish pieces, potatoes, place in a plate and serve separately from the broth.

Delicious facts

– Kakavya is a Cretan fish dish. There is no tradition of making soups in Crete, except for the fish dish kakavya, which is cooked from small sea fish immediately after catching it. Fishermen cook it right on the fishing boat.

– When serving cocoa in a separate plate, spread the fish, potatoes, after catching them from the broth with a slotted spoon. The broth is filtered into another dish. Serve cocoa with a broth spoon and a fork for the grounds.

– For cooking kakavya soup, small sea fish are used: sea bass, flounder, mullet, katran.

– You can add cream and butter to the cocoa – this will make the dish much more satisfying.

– In addition, other seafood can be added to the cocoa: mussels, squid, crabs and octopuses.