Cioppino, Seafood Stew

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups onions, chopped
• 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 (35 ounce) can tomatoes with basil
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 2 cups red wine
• 1 lemon, thinly sliced
• 1 cup parsley, chopped
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• 1 1/2 lbs boned sea bass or 1 1/2 lbs scrod fish, cut in 2 inch pieces
• 3 (1 1/2 lb) lobsters, cut up
• 1 lb shrimp, shelled and cleaned
• 12 hardshell clams, scrubbed
• 24 mussels, scrubbed
• garlic bread

Recipe

• 1 saute the onion, green pepper and garlic in olive oil in large pot.
• 2 add the tomatos, tomato paste, wine, lemon, one half cup or the parsley and all the seasonings.
• 3 bring to boil and simmer 20 minutes.
• 4 add the fish, lobsters and shrimp and simmer, covered 15 minutes.
• 5 add clams and mussels and simmer another 10 minutes more or until the clams and mussels open.
• 6 sprinkle remaining parsley on top.
• 7 serve in soup plates from the pot it was cooked in.
• 8 a nice touch is a piece of garlic bread in each soup plate as a blotter.
• 9 have plenty more bread to pass.