Cioppino
½ tablespoon Marjoram
¾ teaspoon Sage
½ tablespoon Basil
¾ teaspoon Rosemary
¾ teaspoon Thyme
¼ cup chopped fresh parsley
1 clove minced garlic
20 raw clams or mussels
1 large cooked crab
20 raw prawns
1 pound white fish fillets
1 large (~29 ounces) canned tomatoes
2 teaspoons salt
3 ounces tomato paste
6 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon pepper
¾ cup white wine
Mix herbs together to be layered with fish.
Layer fish and herbs in a large pot as follows:
Clams, 1/3 mixed herbs, crab, 1/3 mixed herbs, prawns, remaining herbs, white fish.
In blender, mix all remaining ingredients except wine. Pour sauce over fish in pot and simmer 45 minutes. Add wine and simmer 25 minutes more. Stir Cioppino and serve.
Makes 6 servings.
My husband got this recipe when he took a cooking class in the late 1970s. He and a friend thought it would be a good way to meet women. It didn’t work for that but he got a really good recipe out of it.
Do you think this looks okay as it is? The tomatoes and tomato paste are my concerns but it is so good that it is probably worth budgeting the carbs for.
