Mediterranean Seafood Stew - Zarzuela de Pescado
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▪125g or ½ white onion, small diced
▪75g or ½ medium bulb fennel, small diced
▪4-5 garlic cloves, minced
▪Olive oil
▪Salt
▪1lb/.5kg shell-on raw wild shrimp, shells removed and reserved for stock
▪1box/900-1000g(mL) chicken stock
▪1 bottle/240g(mL) clam juice
▪Chile flake
▪200g or ¾-1c dry white wine
▪800g/28oz nice whole peeled canned tomatoes, pureed
▪1lb/.5kg mussels, rinsed, beards removed (any broken/open mussels discarded)
▪1lb/.5kg fresh atlantic cod, cut into 1”/2.5cm chunks and salted before cooking
▪.5lb/225g squid tubes and tentacles, sliced
▪Pinch sugar
▪Black pepper, chopped parsley, additional olive oil, to garnish
▪Plenty of good crusty bread for dipping
Into a medium sauce pot, add the shells from 1lb shrimp, stock, and clam juice. Bring to a simmer and continue simmer over medium low for about 15min.
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Heat a large heavy bottomed pot over medium. Add very generous squeeze of olive oil (it should almost coat the bottom fo your pot. To that, add onion, fennel, and garlic and a large pinch of salt. Stir and sweat over medium for 4-5min.
Add pinch of chile flake to veg. Allow chile flake to cook and infuse the oil for about a minute, then add in wine. Bring wine and veg to a simmer and continue to cook for 2-3 more minutes or until wine is mostly evaporated.
Add in all of the strained liquid from your shrimp-clam stock (discard shrimp shells). You should be adding about 1200g/mL here. If you don’t have enough, add additional chicken stock or water. Stir in pureed tomatoes. Increase heat to medium high, bring to a boil. Continue to simmer and reduce for approx 15min by about 15-20%.
Taste base for seasoning. Add salt and pinch of sugar if needed to balance acidity.
Reduce heat to low then drop in cod, shrimp, and squid. Gently move with a spoon to ensure everything is spread evenly and submerged before adding in mussels and snuggling them into the base to submerge. Bring to a simmer, cover, and allow to poach for 3-4 mins.
Very gently stir the seafood. Continue to cook if mussels aren’t yet fully open. When mussels are fully opened and the rest of the fish is opaque, it’s done! Discard any mussels that didn’t open during cooking.
Ladle into a bowl, garnish with black pepper, olive oil, and minced parsley, and enjoy with crusty bread.
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This recipe is easy to make at home and is cheaper than any other bouillabaisse recipe because I use the offcuts of the fish rather than using the whole fish.
The time duration of 4 hours
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Julia Child's Bouillabaisse (Fish Stew) | Jamie & Julia
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1/2 cup (118 ml) extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup (150 g) chopped onion
1 cup (89 g) chopped leek
4 cloves smashed garlic
2 or 3 large, ripe tomatoes, chopped or 2 cups canned
2 1/2 quarts (2.5 l) water
Fresh herb sprigs: thyme, parsley, fennel fronds and basil (in any combination)
1 2-inch wide strip of fresh orange peel (optional)
1/2 teaspoon crumbled saffron
1 tablespoon sea salt
3 – 4 pounds (2 kg) fish heads, bones, trimmings, shrimp shells
1 pound (450 g) peeled shrimp (save the shells for the stock)
1 pound (450 g) cod, halibut or other flaky white fish, cut into large chunks
1 pound (450 g) mussels or clams, scrubbed and mussels debearded
Crusty bread, sliced, for serving
Bouillabaisse — Frenchy fish stew with croutons and rouille
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I refuse to write an actual recipe for a stew that's better improvised. FWIW, here's how I would make bouillabaisse in broad steps:
1) If you want rouille for the croutons, start with that, because the flavor improves as it sits around for awhile. Rouille is spicy aioli and aioli is garlicy mayonnaise made with olive oil, with or without egg yolk as an emulsifier. Some possible additions would be roasted red pepper, nuts, breadcrumbs, fish stock (maybe just the juice from your stew), lemon juice or vinegar, saffron, chili powder, etc. There is no one traditional recipe, so work with what you have and what you like. Just make a spicy, garlicy mayonanaise.
2) To start the stew, I'd cut up some form of onion, thin slice a fennel bulb (reserving the fronds for garnish), peel and chop some garlic and get all of that softening in a pan with olive oil. In the video I diced up an artichoke heart as well, but that probably wasn't worth it. Once soft, cover with fish stock if you have it or plain water if you don't.
3) If you don't have fish stock, you can just buy a cheap, whole white fish, cut off whatever good chunks of meat you can and reserve, stuff the bones and skin and head and everything into some cheese cloth along with some bay leaves and any vegetable trimmings you have, tie off the cloth and submerge it in your simmering pot. In a half hour, you'll have amazing seafood flavor and body in your stew, and you can just pull the cloth out and discard before you eat.
4) I'd do all of the above before prepping fresh tomatoes, because I think it's good to preserve their freshness and put them in halfway though. If you want to take their skins off, you can put them in the simmering stew until their skins split, pull them out and then the skins should peel off easily. Chop them roughly and get them simmering with everything else. Cook until they're pretty much broken down.
5) The stew is often flavored with dried orange peel, but I liked the result from using a fresh orange toward the end of cooking. Grate the zest into the stew and then squeeze in the juice. You can also add any last minute seasonings to taste at this point — I just did saffron and salt. Saffron is expensive so consider using paprika instead if you want a redder color.
6) Put your reserved fish chunks and any other seafood in the stew a few minutes before you plan to eat — most fish cooks very fast. This dish is traditionally made with a massive array of different kinds of fish, but I think it's cheaper and more sustainable to focus on making a great broth and then maybe just throw in some mussels at the end — cook them until they open up.
7) Slice up a baguette or some similar bread, toast the pieces under the boiler, top with rouille, and serve with the stew. Garnish with the fennel fronds.