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San Francisco-Style Cioppino

Type: Fish
Courses: Soup
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup 118mlOlive oil - divided
1 cup 62g / 2.2ozOnion - chopped (small)
1 cup 110g / 3.9ozCarrot - finely chopped (medium)
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozGreen bell pepper - chopped (medium)
1 cup 237mlLeek - white part only (small)
  Chopped
1   Celery - chopped
1 tablespoon 15mlFresh fennel - chopped
1   Crushed tomatoes with
  Puree
1 tablespoon 15mlTomato paste
2 cups 474mlWater
1 teaspoon 5mlSalt
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlGround pepper
1 teaspoon 5mlFresh basil - minced
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlFresh oregano - minced
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlFresh thyme - minced
4   Bay leaves
1/8 teaspoon 0.6mlCayenne pepper
1 teaspoon 5mlGarlic - finely chopped
1 lb 454g / 16ozWhite fish - cut into
1/2   Strips
8   Shrimp - shelled and (large) deveined
8   Scallops (large)
3/4 cup 177mlSauvignon blanc wine
8 cups 1896mlClams in shell - scrubbed (small)
4 oz 113gCooked shrimp meat
6 oz 170gCooked crab meat
  Italian parsley - chopped

Recipe Instructions

Heat 1/4 cup olive oil in Dutch oven or large heavy pan over medium heat. Add onions and saute 1 minute without browning. Add carrot, green pepper, leek, celery and fennel and saute 5 minutes. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, water, salt, pepper, basil, oregano, thyme, bay leaves and cayenne pepper.

Partially cover and simmer over low heat 2 hours, stirring occasionally. (Sauce can be covered and kept warm over low heat for several hours longer. Stir occasionally.) Remove bay leaves.

Heat remaining 1/4 cup oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add garlic and cook 5 seconds. Immediately add fish, shrimp and scallops. Saute until just cook through, 2-4 minutes. Add seafood to sauce and stir gently.

Pour wine into skillet and cook 30 seconds over medium heat, stirring up any loose bits. Add clams to skillet. Cover and cook until clams open, 2-6 minutes. Transfer clams as they open to sauce. Discard any that do not open. Gently stir shrimp and crab meat into sauce. Cover and cook cioppino until all seafood is hot, 2-3 minutes longer.

Ladle cioppino into large casserole or soup tureen or directly into shallow soup plates. Garnish with chopped Italian Parsley.

Source:
Tadich Grill, San Francisco

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