Cioppino fish stew

Cioppino fish stew

A hearty fish stew that doesn’t scrimp on seafood – make sure you serve with a chunk of crusty bread to soak up the juices.

Cioppino fish stew

  • Serves icon Serves 6-8
  • Time icon Hands-on time 45 min, simmering time 2 hours

A hearty fish stew that doesn’t scrimp on seafood – make sure you serve with a chunk of crusty bread to soak up the juices.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
359kcals
Fat
10.7g (2.2g saturated)
Protein
40.7g
Carbohydrates
12.5g (10.9g sugars)
Fibre
2.7g
Salt
1.8g

For 8 servings

Ingredients

For the sauce

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 large onions, finely chopped
  • 50g tin anchovies in oil, finely chopped (oil reserved)
  • 8 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 2 litres fresh fish stock (homemade, ideally – use our recipe here)
  • 3 fresh bay leaves
  • 2 tsp fennel seeds
  • Small bunch fresh flatleaf parsley and leaves from a few fresh thyme sprigs and rosemary sprigs, finely chopped, plus extra thyme to serve
  • 3 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes
  • 3 tbsp tomato purée
  • 500ml dry white wine
  • A few drops Tabasco sauce
  • A few drops Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • Chilli flakes to taste

For the fish

  • 20 baby clams, cleaned
  •  20 small mussels, cleaned and beards removed
  •  500g cod, halibut or other meaty white fish, cut into 2cm pieces
  •  2 tbsp olive oil
  •  1 tbsp butter
  •  20 small to medium sustainably sourced prawns, peeled
  •  1 squid, around 200g, cleaned, beak and feather removed, sliced into rings and tentacles
  •  10 queen scallops
  •  300g white crabmeat
  •  Crusty bread to serve
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Method

  1. To make the sauce, heat the olive oil in a very large pot (that has a lid) over a medium heat. Add the onions and anchovies with their oil and cook for about 8 minutes until the onions are translucent and soft, and the anchovies have dissolved.
  2. Add the garlic and cook for about 1 minute. Pour in 1 litre of the fish stock, along with the remaining sauce ingredients. Simmer and reduce (uncovered) for about 2 hours, adding the remaining stock after 1 hour. The sauce should be quite thick, like tomato soup.
  3. Add the clams, mussels and white fish, then cover with the lid. After 3-4 minutes, remove the lid and throw away any shellfish that haven’t opened.
  4. Meanwhile, heat the oil and butter in a frying pan until very hot. Sear the prawns for 1 minute until just pink, then add them to the sauce. Sear the squid and scallops for 1 minute in the same pan (don’t overcook them or they will become tough), then add to the sauce.
  5. Stir the crabmeat into the sauce, then simmer for 3-4 minutes until warmed through. Taste and season, add a few thyme leaves, then serve with crusty bread.

Nutrition

For 8 servings

Nutrition: per serving
Calories
359kcals
Fat
10.7g (2.2g saturated)
Protein
40.7g
Carbohydrates
12.5g (10.9g sugars)
Fibre
2.7g
Salt
1.8g

delicious. tips

  1. Make the sauce up to 2 days ahead, cool and chill in a sealed container. Bring to a simmer, then continue from step 3.

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