Ina Garten's Cioppino | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

[Music] i'm making this incredible seafood stew called topendo first i need seafood stock to make the base of the stew so the base starts with fennel and onions i've got two cups of diced fennel one and a half cups of diced onions i've just cooked them in a little olive oil just until they're tender about 10 minutes okay now i'm going to add three cloves of garlic one teaspoon of whole fennel seeds really gives us an intense fennel flavor just really good with seafood half a teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes give it a little heat i'm just gonna cook this for two minutes just until the garlic's really fragrant i'm going to add 28 ounce can of sandwich on our tomatoes it's crushed next thing i need is one and a half cups of white wine and you know i always say use a white wine you would drink i'm using pinot grigio you'll have half a bottle of wine left to drink okay now i need a tablespoon of salt this is a big pot of seafood stew one teaspoon of pepper and next is four cups of seafood stock just pour it right in it's a really rich stock this is going to cook for 30 minutes and while that happens i'm going to tell you how i made this gorgeous homemade seafood stock makes all the difference in the world i put two tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and added shrimp shells from one pound of large shrimp along with two cups of chopped yellow onions two chopped carrots three stalks of chopped celery i mixed everything together and cooked them for 15 minutes then i added two cloves of minced garlic gave it a stir and i poured in one and a half quarts of water [Music] added a half a cup of dry white wine like pinot grigio then added a third of a cup of tomato paste ten sprigs of fresh thyme including the stems one tablespoon of salt and one and a half teaspoons of black pepper then i brought it all to a boil lowered the heat and simmered it for an hour when the time was up i strained the stock through a sieve pressing the solids pour it into a quart container done so i have one and a half pounds of cod i might serve it with a salad to start and then the seafood stew okay so that goes in right into the stew and at this point you don't want to stir it too much because you don't want to break up the fish next is one pound of shrimp i actually buy it peeled and de-veined it's 16 to 20 count which means they're 16 to 20 shrimp in a pound they're pretty good size okay next is one pound of scallops i've got sea scallops and what i did was i cut them in half crosswise so they're not too big you can use bay scallops but don't cut them they're really small what i've done with the mussels is i've got about 24 mussels and i soak them in water with a little bit of flour in it and that gets any sand out of the mussels and rinse them i don't want any flour in the stew just check to make sure the mussels are closed so they're alive and now i'm just going to put it right on the top so sprinkle it over the top of the chippino don't stir it at this point you don't want to break everything up put the lid on and cook it for 10 minutes that's going to be delicious [Music] how gorgeous i wish you could smell it it's amazing and all the mussels are open so we're good to go i'm going to turn off the heat and add one more thing a tablespoon of pear no we're just like anna's flavored liqueur i'm going to put the lid back on and let it sit for like two minutes just so it really permeates all the seafood okay i've got one more thing i'm going to serve it with garlic toast and i've got them in the oven so i've baked slices of baguette olive oil salt and pepper 400 degrees for 15 minutes and now in order to make them garlic toast i'm going to cut a piece of garlic in half and just rub the cut half right on the toast and that way you don't have like a bite of garlic you just have the flavor of it and with the seafood it's going to be fantastic time to serve up the stew how good does that look wow a little bit of parsley on the top of each one a couple of toasts and i would say that's a seafood stew [Music] you

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Length: 5min 0sec (300 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 22 2022