Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Easy Cioppino

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy cioppino. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Cioppino is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Easy Cioppino is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easy cioppino using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Cioppino:

1. Take steamed dungeness crab, cleaned and cracked
2. Prepare small mussels, scrubbed and debearded
3. Make ready small clams, scrubbed
4. Prepare medium shrimp in the shell, deveined
5. Prepare bag scallops, defrosted
6. Prepare calamari, cut into 1" bands
7. Prepare whole filet of halibut or other firm-flesh fish
8. Take olive oil, extra virgin
9. Get small onion, halved and cut in thirds
10. Make ready garlic cloves, crushed
11. Make ready small red bell pepper, cut in 2-inch strips
12. Prepare a fennel bulb, cut in thirds
13. Prepare red pepper flakes
14. Make ready bay leaves
15. Get San Marzano tomatoes, crushed well by hand or pureed
16. Take big sprigs of basil
17. Make ready sprigs Italian flat parsley,
18. Make ready dried oregano
19. Make ready freshly ground black pepper
20. Take sea salt
21. Make ready baguette loaf sourdough bread

Steps to make Easy Cioppino:

1. Heat olive oil and garlic in a large pot over medium-high heat for about 1 minute.
2. Add the onions, fennel, red bell pepper, bay leaf and red pepper flakes. Add sea salt and black pepper to taste. Saute over medium-high heat until the onions are translucent, about 2 minutes.
3. Stir in tomatoes and add the basil, parsley and oregano. Continue cooking over medium high heat, stirring occasionally until the sauce is reduced by a third.
4. While the sauce thickens, cut the sourdough baguette into half-inch slices and toast or grill on both sides until crisp. Coat lightly with garlic and olive oil. Set aside in a serving bowl.
5. Add clams and mussels to the pot and cook for 2 minutes.
6. Add the fish fillet, scallops, shrimp, calamari and prawns. Cover the pot and simmer rapidly for about 5 minutes.
7. Add the steamed crab and stir well. Cook until the mussels and clams open, about 4 more minutes.
8. Transfer cioppino into a large bowl and serve immediately with the grilled sourdough bread..

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