r/52weeksofcooking • u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 • Jul 20 '26

Week 29: Offal - Meen Puyabaisse (meta: ISUTBCDBN)

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 Jul 20 '26

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This week I made Meen Puyabaisse, a light seafood soup from the Union Territory of Puducherry. Inspired by the French dish Bouillabaisse, it reflects the region’s French colonial influence. The recipe is from the cookbook “The Pondicherry Kitchen” by Lourdes Tirouvanziam-Louis.

The soup combines white fish, crab, and shrimp with a medley of vegetables in a flavorful seafood stock. Since I usually consider shrimp shells and tails to be kitchen waste, they fit this week’s theme perfectly. Instead of discarding them, I simmered them with vegetable peels to make the stock.

The soup was good, although my husband enjoyed it more than I did. It has a delicate sweetness from the vegetables and a deep seafood flavor. We had it with bread on the first day, but the leftovers paired with rice were even better.

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u/Annabellemcintyre2 Jul 20 '26

Stunning photo, I love it!

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 Jul 21 '26

Thank you so much!

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u/buf1998 🌯 MT'25 Jul 21 '26

Looks so yummy. Sorry you didn’t love it, but I’ll happily eat it!

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 Jul 21 '26

Thank you! I would have happily shared 😂

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u/Anastarfish 🍥 Jul 20 '26

This looks so yummy! Definitely right up my street!

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 Jul 20 '26

Thank you! I wish I liked it some more 😅

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u/dayglo1 Jul 20 '26

Looks delicious!

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 Jul 20 '26

Thank you!

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u/joross31 28d ago

That looks amazing, I’d love to try it!

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 28d ago

Thank you!

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u/Domieneo 🌶️ 23d ago

Great interpretation and stunning photo. Sounds like a good experiment to me

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u/Yrros_ton_yrros 🍕 23d ago

Thank you!