California Coastal Cioppino Recipe

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California Coastal Cioppino
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Ingredients
53
Count
Nutrition
1457
Calories
Total time
135
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Tomato Sauce Base:
  2. Heat a large saucepan and add olive oil and anchovies. Stir anchovies into hot oil to dissolve. Add onions, celery and carrots and begin to cook until they begin to brown. Add basil leaves, garlic and chili flakes and sweat to release their aromas. Add sachet and tomatoes, season with salt and pepper. Simmer for 45 minutes until vegetables are tender enough to easily crush with a fork. Remove sachet and pass sauce through a fine food mill. Reserve for Cioppino Base.
  3. Cioppino Base:
  4. Combine wines and saffron. Reduce wine by half. Add fish stock and tomato sauce, bring to a simmer to combine flavors. Check seasoning. Adjust if necessary.
  5. Spot Prawns:
  6. Place Cioppino Base.in a large straight-sided pot. Heat to just below a simmer. Add fish, clams, mussels, crab and shrimp tails to pot. Cover and steam/poach briefly to cook and heat through each item. Clams and mussels should be now open; fish and shrimp should turn opaque. Add calamari for the last minute of cooking. Discard any clams or mussels that do not have beautiful plump meats.
  7. Main Dish:
  8. Heat about 6 inches of oil to 365 degrees F. Clean back apron of shrimp head and clean inside tail end of head. Dredge shrimp heads in potato starch lightly and fry 3 minutes until very crisp and golden. Drain briefly, split in 2 and season with salt and pepper. Hold warm for service.
  9. Spicy Shrimp Rouille:
  10. Soak bread cubes in fish broth and place all ingredients except oil in blender. Puree ingredients into a paste. Pour in the oil slowly, while blending, to make a thick fluffy mayonnaise sauce.
  11. Rustic Crostini:
  12. Rub bread with cut garlic clove and brush with melted butter and olive oil. Sprinkle with
  13. Parsley, salt and pepper and toast to golden brown in oven or toaster oven.
  14. Cioppino Assembly:
  15. Ladle Cioppino sauce into hot serving dishes. Arrange fish items on each dish from the back of the dish to the front. Lean crostini against 2 pieces of sea bass. Arrange 3 split fried shrimp heads against crostini and face forward and upright. Add 1 mussel shell and mussel meats, and 1 clam shell and clam meats. Add peeled shrimp tails, last piece of fish, calamari and peeled crab legs. Top with chopped parsley, cover and serve. Serve with lemons and Spicy Rouille sauce on side.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1457.01 Kcal (6100 kJ)
Calories from fat 687.63 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 76.4g 118%
Cholesterol 33.53mg 11%
Sodium 5821.64mg 243%
Potassium 2086.14mg 44%
Total Carbs 144.62g 48%
Sugars 33.91g 136%
Dietary Fiber 16.57g 66%
Protein 29.12g 58%
Vitamin C 109mg 182%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 6%
Iron 6.2mg 34%
Calcium 797.2mg 80%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 106.8 Kcal (447 kJ)
Calories from fat 50.4 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5.6g 118%
Cholesterol 2.46mg 11%
Sodium 426.72mg 243%
Potassium 152.91mg 44%
Total Carbs 10.6g 48%
Sugars 2.49g 136%
Dietary Fiber 1.21g 66%
Protein 2.13g 58%
Vitamin C 8mg 182%
Iron 0.5mg 34%
Calcium 58.4mg 80%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 34.7
    Points
  • 37
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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