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A simple authentic Cioppino Recipe that is easy to make and full of flavor. Fresh fish and seafood Here's a simple tasty recipe for Cioppino, an Italian seafood stew. The base is brothy and light.
Easy Cioppino is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Easy Cioppino is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy cioppino using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Cioppino:
- Take 1 steamed dungeness crab, cleaned and cracked
- Take 24 small mussels, scrubbed and debearded
- Get 24 small clams, scrubbed
- Take 40 medium shrimp in the shell, deveined
- Make ready 1 bag scallops, defrosted
- Make ready 1/2 lb calamari, cut into 1" bands
- Make ready 1/2 lb whole filet of halibut or other firm-flesh fish
- Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- Get 1 small onion, halved and cut in thirds
- Prepare 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Make ready 1 small red bell pepper, cut in 2-inch strips
- Make ready 1/2 a fennel bulb, cut in thirds
- Get 2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 28 oz San Marzano tomatoes, crushed well by hand or pureed
- Make ready 2 big sprigs of basil
- Prepare 2 sprigs Italian flat parsley,
- Make ready 1 tsp dried oregano
- Make ready freshly ground black pepper
- Prepare sea salt
- Prepare 1 baguette loaf sourdough bread
It's usually considered an Italian-American dish. Serve with grilled sourdough bread and garnish with parsley. The cioppino was the main course. (Followed by a creme brulee.) Overall this is a good Cioppino. Being Italian I had to delete the butter for a nice Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Steps to make Easy Cioppino:
- Heat olive oil and garlic in a large pot over medium-high heat for about 1 minute.
- Add the onions, fennel, red bell pepper, bay leaf and red pepper flakes. Add sea salt and black pepper to taste. Saute over medium-high heat until the onions are translucent, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in tomatoes and add the basil, parsley and oregano. Continue cooking over medium high heat, stirring occasionally until the sauce is reduced by a third.
- While the sauce thickens, cut the sourdough baguette into half-inch slices and toast or grill on both sides until crisp. Coat lightly with garlic and olive oil. Set aside in a serving bowl.
- Add clams and mussels to the pot and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the fish fillet, scallops, shrimp, calamari and prawns. Cover the pot and simmer rapidly for about 5 minutes.
- Add the steamed crab and stir well. Cook until the mussels and clams open, about 4 more minutes.
- Transfer cioppino into a large bowl and serve immediately with the grilled sourdough bread..
Giada De Laurentiis' Cioppino, an Italian-American fisherman's stew, is a lighter alternative to heavy holiday meals, from Everyday Italian on Food Network. Cioppino is a delicious Italian-American seafood stew, similar to bouillabaisse. It was invented in San Francisco, but is based on a number of regional Italian fish stews. The best tags are ones that the general public finds useful – e.g., Simple, Vegan, Chocolate, Easy, Advance, etc. Cioppino, a fisherman's fish and shellfish stew from San Francisco, is easy to make, and Note that cioppino is typically served with the shellfish still in their shells, making for somewhat messy eating.
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