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
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1 lbeach,calamari rings,medium shrimp,little neck clams,conh or scungilli,bay scallops
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2 largelemons
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1 mediumred onion diced
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1 mediumyellow bell pepper or orange diced
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1 Tbspred pepper flakes
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3 clovesliced thin garlic
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1 cparsley, italian chopped/plus more for garnish
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1 tspsea salt
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1/2 tspcracked black pepper
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1/2 colive oil, extra virgin
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3celery ribs diced
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1 cgreen olives
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FOR THE POACHING STOCK:
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4 cwater
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1 cchicken stock
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3 clovegarlic
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2 largelemon cut in half plus one cut in wedges
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3bay leaves
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1 tsppeppercorns, whole black
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2 tspsea salt
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1 tspold bay seasoning
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EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED
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1 largestock pot
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1 mediumfine mesh strainer with handle
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1slotted spoon
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2 mediummixing bowl
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1ice cubes and water
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6-12 smallserving vessels
How to Make Frutti di Mare ( fruit of the sea!)
- Have 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.
- Bring 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.
- When all the seafood is blanched,remove from the ice bath using the slotted spoon into another mixing bowl.
- Now,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!!:)
