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Laura Calder

Anise-flavoured Seafood Stew


Ingredients

  • 1 kg rich, full flavoured fish trimmed and emptied
  • 1 kg delicate fish trimmed and emptied
  • 1 kg head and bones fish rinsed
  • 4 l water
  • 125 ml olive oil
  • 2 diced onions
  • 2 large leeks trimmed, cleaned, and sliced
  • 1 bulb of a fennel peeled, trimmed, and chopped, with green fronds reserved
  • 6 tomatoes seeded, peeled and diced
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 bunch garni
  • 1½ teaspoons fennel seeds
  • 2 slices orange peel pith removed, preferably dried
  • ½ teaspoon saffron crushed
  • salt & pepper
  • 1 splash pernod or white wine

Method

  1. Chop the full-flavoured and delicate fish into large, bite-sized pieces and refrigerate (keeping the full-flavoured fish separate from the delicate).
  2. Put the rinsed fish heads and bones in a large soup pot, pour the water over, bring to a boil, and simmer twenty minutes.
  3. Strain, reserving the liquid.
  4. Heat the oil in the same pot and fry the onions, leeks, and fennel until soft, about 10 minutes.
  5. Add the tomatoes, garlic, bouquet garni, fennel seed, orange peel, and saffron.
  6. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Pour over the fish stock, and simmer half an hour.
  8. Remove the bouquet garni and the orange peel.
  9. Bring the liquid to a rolling boil.
  10. Add the full-flavoured fish and cook 5 minutes.
  11. Add the delicate fish and the splash of Pernod and continue cooking until all the fish is tender, about 5 minutes longer.
  12. Ladle into warm soup plates, sprinkle irreverently with parsley if you like, and top with a rouille-smeared croûte.
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  • clara
    May 2010

    Anise flavoured seafood stew. It would really help if laura specified some examples of full flavoured fish and delicate fish. not everyone is an expert on fish. it would also help if she specified which herbs go into the garni again not everyone is an expert on herbs! sometimes I feel she gives the recipe but keeps certain tips hidden. might as well not give the recipe.

    • aemzed
      July 2010

      Ever heard of google!? Takes about as much time to look up information as it does to complain! ;-)

  • gofood
    December 2009

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... This recipe came out beautifully, and it tasted great!

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