Fisherman’s Stew
A Tadich Grill Recipe
Cioppino means “Chip in” to the pot
Anyone who has tasted Cioppino from the Tradich Grill would yearn to have it again and again. Cioppino is basically a tomato based fish stew which was invented by the Italian immigrants of San Francisco. Here is the recipe of Cioppino which has been adapted by Tradich Grill.
Ingredients
- Olive Oil – ½ cup
- Chopped onion – 1 small size
- Finely chopped carrot – 1 medium size
- Chopped green bell pepper – ½ medium size
- Chopped white part of leak – 1small size
- Chopped rib celery – 1 small size
- Chopped fresh fennel – 1 tbsp
- Crushed tomato along with puree -1 can
- Tomato paste – 1tbsp
- Water -2 cups
- Salt -1tsp
- Ground pepper – ¼ tsp
- Fresh minced basil – 1tsp
- Fresh minced oregano – ½ tsp
- Fresh minced thyme – ¼ tsp
- Bay Leaves -4
- Cayenne pepper – 1 dash
- Finely chopped garlic – 1tsp
- White Fish – 1lb cut into small strips
- Shrimp deveined and shelled – 8 large
- Scallops – 8 large
- Sauvignon Blanc Wine – 3/4 cup
- Clams in shell and scrubbed – 8 small
- Cooked crab meat – 6 oz.
- Cooked shrimp meat – 4 oz.
- Chopped Italian parsley
Directions
- Take a large heavy pan and add ¼ cup of olive oil in it and put the flame in a medium heat. Add onion to it and sauté for a minute. Add green pepper, carrot, fennel, celery and leak and sauté them for 5 minutes.
- Add to it tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, salt, pepper, bay leaves, thyme, oregano, basil, cayenne pepper and water. Leave it for two hours in a low heat while occasionally stirring the mixture.
- Heat the remaining 1/4 cup oil in a large skillet over high heat.
- Once heated add garlic and cook for a few seconds.
- Add shrimps, fish and scallops and sauté them for a few minutes.
- Add this to the sauce.
- Place a skillet over medium heat and pour wine into it and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add clams in the wine and cook it until all clams open.
- Transfer the clams to the sauce.
- Stir crab meat and shrimp in the sauce.
- Cook until all the seafood is hot.
- Transfer the cioppino into a casserole and garnish with parsley.
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