Fourth Street Grill’s Cioppino

(from mmatsuoka’s recipe box)

This cioppino comes from Amey Shaw, who was chef at Berkeley’s Fourth Street Grill when she created this version of a Bay Area classic. The stew is brimming with seafood — Dungeness crab, mussels, clams and squid — simmered in a saffron-laced broth. Each serving is garnished with croutons and a fiery-garlicky rouille. Clearly, this cioppino is not for the faint of heart.

Per serving: 525 calories, 40 g protein, 32 g carbohydrate, 23 g fat (4 g saturated), 317 mg cholesterol, 759 mg sodium, 2 g fiber.

Source: SF Gate

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Serves 8 people

Categories: Seafood

Ingredients

  • INGREDIENTS:
  • The Croutons
  • 1 head garlic, broken apart lightly
  • 1 cup light olive oil
  • 40 thin slices baguette
  • The Rouille
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 2 red jalapenos, roasted, peeled, seeded
  • 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper, lightly toasted
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • Lemon juice to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • The Cioppino
  • 1 cup chopped, drained, seeded tomatoes (canned or fresh)
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • Fresh ground black pepper
  • 6 cups rich fish stock
  • 1 tablespoon saffron threads, toasted, pulverized
  • Zest of 1/2 orange
  • Light olive oil for sauteing
  • 1/2 cup julienned fresh fennel
  • 1 cup julienned leeks
  • 1 cup julienned carrots
  • 2 tablespoons minced shallots
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 3 ounces Pernod
  • 24 Manila clams, scrubbed
  • 2 freshly killed Dungeness crabs, cleaned, quartered, lightly cracked
  • 32 mussels, scrubbed, debearded
  • 2 pounds squid, cleaned, cut into 1/2-inch rings
  • Salt to taste

Directions

  1. INSTRUCTIONS: To prepare the croutons: Preheat the oven to 350°. To make the garlic oil, grind the whole head of garlic, including the skins, in a blender or food processor. Strain through a fine sieve and add to the oil.

  2. Place the thin slices of baguette in a large mixing bowl and pour in enough garlic oil to coat thoroughly. Toss gently. Arrange on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Let cool.

  3. To prepare the rouille: Mash the garlic in a mortar with the peppers and the cayenne until they form a paste. Transfer the mixture to a bowl. Add the egg yolk and whisk to combine. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil, drop by drop, whisking constantly until an emulsion begins to form. When all the oil is absorbed, taste and season with lemon juice and salt. Refrigerate until ready to use.

  4. To prepare the cioppino: Preheat oven to 400°. Place well-drained tomatoes in a layer on a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with black pepper. Roast for 30 minutes, or until lightly caramelized.

  5. Combine the stock, tomatoes, saffron and orange zest in a large kettle over low heat. Set aside and keep warm.

  6. Put enough olive oil to cover the bottom in a large skillet and place over medium heat. Add the fennel, leeks and carrots and cook about 2 minutes. Add the shallots and cook a minute more. Add the garlic, turn the heat to high, and add the Pernod and flame if possible. Add the fish stock combination, the clams and the crab. Cover tightly. After about 2 minutes add mussels and cover. As soon as the mussels and clams have opened, reduce heat to simmer.

  7. Have 8 large soup bowls warmed and arrange all the shellfish, with a quarter crab, 4 mussels and 3 clams in each bowl.

  8. Add the squid to the broth and let cook for 30 seconds. Taste the broth and season with salt. Arrange the squid in the bowls. Arrange 4 croutons upright in each bowl. Top a fifth with a tablespoon of rouille and place flat in the bowl. Carefully pour in broth and vegetables and serve immediately. Pass additional rouille at the table.

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