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Seafood Stew Recipe

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  • Author: Sylvia Fountaine | Feasting at Home Blog
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 25 mins
  • Total Time: 35 mins
  • Yield: 4-6 1x
  • Category: Main, seafood, stew, fish,
  • Method: Stovetop
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean
  • Diet: Gluten Free

Description

This Mediterranean Seafood Stew recipe highlights a light, flavorful tomato-fennel broth with fresh fish and seafood and optional chorizo.


Ingredients

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  • Optional: 68 ounces crumbled Mexican chorizo; see notes for Spanish Chorizo, or leave it out.
  • 2 cups finely diced fennel (one large bulb)
  • 1 cup finely diced onion (half a large onion)
  • 4 garlic cloves, smashed and roughly diced
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • 4 cups Chicken Stock (or a good fish stock)
  • 1 teaspoon fish sauce ( leave out if using fish stock)
  • 2 medium tomatoes- diced ( or one canned tomatoes, diced and juices)
  • 8 oz firm white fish like halibut, sea bass, mahi mahi, or black cod
  • 1 lb mussels (or sub clams)
  • 1 lb large prawns, raw, peeled and deveined (or sub scallops)
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes or cayenne
  • salt and black pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 lemon

Instructions

  1. In a large heavy bottom pot or deep skillet or Dutch oven, brown the chorizo in a little extra virgin olive oil. (Remove from casing and break up or crumble into small bite-size pieces). Once browned, set aside. Pour off the fat, wipe out skillet with paper towel.
  2. In the same skillet, heat the olive oil on medium-high heat. Add fennel, stirring often for about 3 minutes. Add onion, turn heat down to medium and saute both until tender, about 8-10 minutes. Add garlic, and sauté 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until garlic starts to turn golden. Add tomato paste. Turn the heat up to high, constantly stirring, until paste darkens, about 3 more minutes. You are frying the paste to deepen the flavor of the dish.
  3. Add white wine and turn heat down to medium-high, stirring until it cooks down by half, about 2 minutes. Add chicken stock, tomatoes, browned chorizo, and fish sauce and bring to a boil and let simmer.
  4. Add salt and pepper to taste, and chili flakes. If using chorizo, the broth may be salty enough- each chorizo is different. Squeeze with half the lemon. Taste. You want the broth to taste rich and flavorful.
  5.  Add fish, simmer a couple minutes and add prawns, simmer a couple minutes, then add mussels. Remember the larger the prawns or mussels or fish pieces the longer they take to cook, so look at all your seafood ingredients and determine which will take the longest to cook, putting them in first.
  6. Taste, adjust salt and lemon to your preferences.
  7. Divide among bowls and Finish with the fresh parsley.

Notes

  1. Chorizo. If you can find cured Spanish chorizo, dice it thinly—you’ll only need 1/4th of a cup! This is my favorite, but it can be harder to source. Mexican chorizo works too. AND If you leave out the chorizo, a pinch of smoked paprika works nicely here! 
  2. Serve with crusty bread. I like to cut a loaf of good quality garlic or rosemary bread into thick slices, arrange on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil and fresh rosemary sprigs, and bake in a 400F oven until toasty, or even better, grill the bread.
  3. If you are going gluten-free, try adding a cup of cooked cannellini beans to the stew for added heartiness, instead of serving with bread.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 ½ cups
  • Calories: 476
  • Sugar: 4.6 g
  • Sodium: 1007 mg
  • Fat: 23.6 g
  • Saturated Fat: 6.6 g
  • Carbohydrates: 14.3 g
  • Fiber: 2.9 g
  • Protein: 49.3 g
  • Cholesterol: 224.5 mg