What is a bouillabaisse?

Answer 1

Bouillabaisse is a traditional Provencal fish stew made with a fish stock containing various kinds of cooked fish and shellfish and vegetables, flavoured with garlic, fennel, basil, bay leaf and saffron. A traditional bouillabaisse, is made with scorpionfish, conger eel and sea robin but it may include bream, turbot and monkfish. Mussels, crab, sea urchins, langoustine and octopus may be added along with onions, leeks tomatoes, celery and potatoes.

Answer 2

Bouillabaisse is the name of a fish stew from the vicinity of Marseille in southern France.

Its only standard ingredients are water, onions and saffron. What else goes into it varies from day to day depending on what the local fishermen caught and what didn't get bought on the quayside.

Answer 3

Are u sure its the right spelling? B-O-U-I-L-L-A-I-S-S-E not B-O-U-I-L-L-A-B-A-I-S-S-E?

Answer 4

It's a fish soup. Bouillabaisse originated in the Marseille region of France.

Answer 5

Look for "Bouillabaisse". It is a seafood soup of French origin. Wikipedia can tell a lot about it.

Answer 6

A french seafood stew.