Italian Seafood Recipes: Italian Seafood Stew

Seafood is really nice food as it provides us with much protein. Cooking from seafood has its own characters that make it really great for any occasion. Now, when you want to have it in better ways, I would like to suggest you in having Italian seafood recipes. I will suggest you to have this seafood because it will give you a plenty of great taste with the Italian taste that is unbeatable and special. Now, for more particular talk, here, the Italian seafood stew is the food that will be discussed in our Italian recipes for seafood.

Ingredients for Italian Seafood Stew

Stew is pleasing food at anytime because it gives us really smooth texture and softness in our mouth. For the taste, it depends for us but here, we get a little bit spicy taste from these Italian recipes of seafood. Italian seafood stew will need the following ingredients:

1. 24 ounces of scrubbed mussels
2. 24 ounces of large shrimp (shelled and deveined)
3. 24 ounces of scrubbed littleneck clams
4. 24 ounces of bass fillets with no skin and it is cut in 2-by1-inches pieces
5. 4 tablespoons of flat-leaf parsley (finely chopped)
6. a cup of extra-virgin olive oil and additional cup for drizzling
7. 4 finely chopped celery ribs
8. 2 finely chopped and cored fennel bulb
9. 2 finely chopped white onions
10. 4 cups of dry white wine
11. 2 can of tomatoes puree (28 ounce each)
12. 3 pounds of squid which is chopped in ½ inches ring and half tentacles
13. 4 cups of water
14. freshly grounded black pepper and salt
15. 2 cup of bottled clam broth
16. 4 lemons
17. two pinch of crushed red pepper
18. 2 tablespoon of dried oregano

How to Make Italian Seafood Stew

Now, it is time for us to execute the Italian seafood recipes:

1. First, you can start with heating a cup of olive oil in Dutch oven or enameled cast-iron in really large size as you get plenty materials.
2. In the casserole, you add the following ingredients: celery, onion, oregano, fennel, and crushed pepper then stir them periodically till it softened for about 15 minutes. 
3. After the mixture of season done, you can put the squid and stir it for 15 minutes.
4. Boil the mixture with adding wine in high head for about 20 minutes till some part evaporates.
5. Add the lemon zest, pepper, salt, then lower the heat to minimal and stir the mixture for 40 minutes till it is thickened.
6. Add water and clam broth till it boils then takes the lemon out and season the mixture with salt and pepper.
7. Put inside clams, shrimps, and mussels then cook and stir till the clams opens.
8. Add the striped bass and cook it for about 2 minutes.
9. In the end, you serve the stew in the some small bowls and share the gremolata by sprinkling it. Add the parsley and lemon zest in it for getting softer taste, drizzle the olive oil.

Those are the steps that you need to pass for acquiring great taste in these Italian seafood recipes. The steps do feel complicated but the result is just really satisfying. I believe the taste of this food will flatter your tongue moreover when you do the seafood Italian recipes correctly.

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