Authentic Cioppino Recipe // Delicious Italian Seafood Stew



Cioppino Recipe is loaded with fresh seafood and cooked in a delicious tomato and vegetable broth and served up with parsley …

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  1. Why on earth would you cook all of that seafood in a separate pot of water? Aren't you going to lose all of their juices to the boiling water? Wouldn't it make more sense to capture their flavor in the cioppino sauce itself? I'm pretty sure in the "authentic" preparations they would've just cooked the seafood all in the same pot.

  2. I'm OK to boil or blanch just for a bit on just the clams and mussels to remove beards and sand stuff, but NEVER on shrimps and fish that are very easy to cook.. Flavors should go to the soup not the boiling water, esp your shrimp is already pre-cooked Lol.. Thanks for the great history though.

  3. TY for the content.
    some old timers from the bay told me that it wasnt so much the catch of the day, but more of the incidental catch.
    various types of shell fish and fish. the fisherman would all "chip in" withwhat they had that day. maybe its more of chipped in than chopped. hence the name

  4. You steam the seafood, and lost all that delicious good juice into a pot of water!😳. Why didn’t you cook the seafood in the tomato broth ! I agree with everything else you did but oh my goodness so much flavor lost! Unless I’m not seeing something that you’re seeing!

  5. No. Not so much as an hour for the sauce. No flavors developed. Red pepper/pepper flakes, paprica, bay leaf, thyme for authentic flavors. Saute the veggies with a touch of fennel, add the garlic last. Proof the clams/muscles in a separate pot, yes. Reserve the water for the sauce, don't throw it out. Add fish, shellfish, squid after the sauce has developed, at least an hour. Cioppino is not a fast food. The sauce is better the next day. If you want it real make it yourself. Restaurants don't have the time. Fresh seafood is expensive, go with the Costco frozen cioppino package if cost matters. It's the sauce that really makes it.

  6. Why not cook all the seafood components very slowly in the sauce, adding each based on cook time? Too much goodness being lost by cooking in water first. Maybe even steam seafood over a small amount of water and then add that broth back into the stew with the seafood. JMHO

  7. Cioppino is nothing else than the traditional Genoese fish stew which original name is ciüpín. The name in Genoese language means “fuller”, and it comes from the fact that poor fisherman families needed to feel more fuller and added to the stew a gallette bread used normally on board fisher boats.

  8. Look great can't wait to try this. One question! Why cook the clams and mussels separately? Why not cook them in the tomato soup so far in the, will the shells not open and cook once you cover them up? Also don't clams and mussels take about the same time to cook? Or do clams take longer? why do them separately?

  9. Nothing says authentic than plowing the food with your hands with your rings, jewellery and watch still on, so you can really get all that rich flavor of old damp skin paste and dirt trapped in the tiny creases of your bling and under your watch bracelet. That's actually very Italian.

  10. Actually it wasn't the Italian families in San Francisco that started making cioppino, it was the family of Croatian immigrants that started the famous recipe. Research the original owners of the oldest restaurant in California established in 1849 in San Francisco. The place is called Tadich Grill

  11. First time seeing the fish cooked separately, is there a reason? Also,what is the best way to purge clams and mussels of sand? Last several time's i bought some they were so sandy I couldn't even use them and they weren't cheap 🥺

  12. It's interesting to hear about the roots of a dish, but authenticity is overrated. Just make it the way you like with the best of what you have on hand. That's really how recipes like Cioppino were initially created anyway.

  13. Make your own fish broth from the shrimp shells. Briefly sauté the shells in a little olive oil, then add water. I usually throw the trimmings off the vegetables in to add flavor. Simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes (it does not take long) and you have a very favorable stock. By using the shells and vegie trimmings you do not waste anything.

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