Cioppino: The Best Seafood Stew Recipe
This is hands down the best seafood stew recipe you’ll ever make.
Doing anything with seafood is incredibly time consuming. The preparation of what you’re cooking (whether it be fish, prawns, mussels or crabs) plays a big part in the outcome of the dish.
I’ve recently been on the lookout for stellar seafood stew recipes and even though I’ve come across quite a few than look appetizing, none quite hit the spot like this recipe for Cioppino, a play on Italian and Mediterranean fish stews that use halibut, shrimp and mussels to deliver a comforting yet complex blend of flavors that will not only leave you impressed, but also feeling nourished — a healthy addition to any recipe repertoire.
Cioppino is a dish created by Italian-American immigrants based in San Francisco. Using classic flavors found in Mediterranean seafood dishes with locally-sourced seafood is what makes this dish a winner. The different textures from the variety of seafood used — halibut, clams, mussels, and shrimps — creates a surprise in each bite… a sort of little sister dish to the celebrated ‘Feast of the Seven Fishes’, a traditional Italian-American Christmas Eve seafood dish served on Christmas Eve to celebrate the arrival of Christ by abstaining from meat. Click here for a recipe for ‘The Feast of Seven Fishes’.
