Seafood Made Simple: This Scottish smoked haddock soup is one to slurp and savour

Goldie's Aishling Moore also shares her fish stock recipe which makes a great difference to the final taste of this dish

Cullen skink is made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. Pictures: Chani Anderson

Cullen skink, Scotland’s answer to chowder is a fabulous soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. Cullen is a small fishing village in the northeast of Scotland and Skink, a Scottish word for shin or knuckle of beef, which is also another term used to refer to soup.

I made Cullen skink recently for a very special event. The Keep, a short documentary about my dear friend Sally Barnes, had its Irish premier at the wonderful L’Atitude 51 for the Cork International Film Festival 2024. I was delighted to have been asked to collaborate with Beverly Matthews and the gang at L’Atitude to create a light lunch to be served after the screening.