Frutti di Mare ( fruit of the sea!)
By
Eddie Szczerba
@chefed60
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This is a traditional food served during the Christmas and New Year holidays in our home and we love it! We hope that you will enjoy it too!
Ingredients
- 1 lb
- each,calamari rings,medium shrimp,little neck clams,conh or scungilli,bay scallops
- 2 large
- lemons
- 1 medium
- red onion diced
- 1 medium
- yellow bell pepper or orange diced
- 1 Tbsp
- red pepper flakes
- 3 clove
- sliced thin garlic
- 1 c
- parsley, italian chopped/plus more for garnish
- 1 tsp
- sea salt
- 1/2 tsp
- cracked black pepper
- 1/2 c
- olive oil, extra virgin
- 3
- celery ribs diced
- 1 c
- green olives
- 4 c
- water
- 1 c
- chicken stock
- 3 clove
- garlic
- 2 large
- lemon cut in half plus one cut in wedges
- 3
- bay leaves
- 1 tsp
- peppercorns, whole black
- 2 tsp
- sea salt
- 1 tsp
- old bay seasoning
- 1 large
- stock pot
- 1 medium
- fine mesh strainer with handle
- 1
- slotted spoon
- 2 medium
- mixing bowl
- 1
- ice cubes and water
- 6-12 small
- serving vessels
FOR THE POACHING STOCK:
EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED
How to Make Frutti di Mare ( fruit of the sea!)
- 1Have your fish monger clean your seafood or you can do it yourself.The calamari and the conch will be the most labor of all of the seafood involved in the recipe.The calamari must be cleaned and sliced into rings,the conch can be sliced thin,not too thin also.
- 2Bring all of the stock ingredients to a rapid boil the using the fine mesh strainer,blanch the seafood individually by species for 2-3 minutes and submerge in the ice bath using the mixing bowl.
- 3When all the seafood is blanched,remove from the ice bath using the slotted spoon into another mixing bowl.
- 4Now,season the seafood using all of the ingredients listed,reserving some parsley and red pepper flake for garnish.An additional lemon wedge is recommended for serving also. Arrange the salad in serving vessel and chill for at least one hour before serving,Enjoy!!:)
