Caldillo de congrio (Spanish for cusk-eel

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) is a

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an fish soup. The dish is made of congrio Dorado (

pink cusk-eel The pink cusk-eel, ''Genypterus blacodes'', is a demersal species of cusk-eel found in the oceans around southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland, in depths of . Their length is up to , an ...

) or Colorado (red cusk-eel), a cusk-eel species common in the

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. The dish is made by boiling together fish heads,

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, carrots and

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. Once these are boiled, only the stock is used. Onion and garlic are fried together with chopped tomatoes. The vegetables are mixed then with the stock, cream, boiled

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es and marinated and boiled conger. Chilean Literature Nobel laureate

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wrote an ode to Caldillo de congrio called ''Oda al Caldillo de Congrio''. The

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has a tradition of serving the Chilean press and media caldillo de congrio at an annual event at which important announcements are made regarding the current year.Intervención de Guillermo Teillier en caldillo de congrio 2013

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Caldillo de congrio recipe

Caldillo de congrio recipe on Recidemia
Chilean cuisine Fish and seafood soups Congridae {{chile-cuisine-stub

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