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Seafood Mediterranean

Courses: Soup
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

18   Cherrystone clams
3   Garlic - chopped
1/2 cup 118mlOlive oil
18 oz 511gLobster tails - thawed if
  Frozen - each cut in thirds
  Crosswise
1 cup 237mlDry white wine
1   Italian plum tomatoes
  Cut up
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozFresh parsley - chopped
1 teaspoon 5mlDried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlSalt
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlPepper
2   Bay leaves
1 lb 454g / 16ozMedium shrimp - peeled and
  Deveined - with shell left
  On tail

Recipe Instructions

Scrub clams. Soak in salt water for 15 minutes. Drain and rinse. Repeat soaking process twice. In an 8 quart pot, saute garlic in hot olive oil over medium-high heat until lightly cooked but not brown.

Add lobster tail pieces and stir well. Add white wine, tomatoes, parsley, oregano, salt, pepper and bay leaves. Mix well. Arrange shrimp and clams on top of stew.

Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and steam for 5-8 minutes until clams have opened and shrimp and lobster are opaque when cut in center.

Discard any unopened clams and bay leaves before serving stew in bowls.

Source:
Victoria Magazine, January 1994

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