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Seafood and Fish Cataplana Recipe (Portuguese Cuisine)
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Damián
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2014-10-03 @ 08:17
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Seafood and Fish Cataplana Recipe (Portuguese Cuisine)
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Serves:
4
Time:
45 m
Difficulty:
Easy
Ingredients
4 slices of fish (choice of: conger eel, monk-fish, hake …)
8 large shrimp
12 large mussels
250 g of clams
Fresh parsley
Fresh cilantro or coriander
Sweet paprika
2 cloves of garlic
2 large onions
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
2 or 3 fresh or canned tomatoes
2 bay leaves
1 dash of white wine
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Directions
A few hours before starting, dip clams in salted cold water to remove the sand out of them.
Wash the mussels under cold water, remove the beards and white parts stuck to the shells.
Peel and wash the onions. Cut them into julienne.
Wash the peppers and remove the stem. Cut them into julienne.
Wash the tomatoes and remove the stem. Cut them into pieces.
Rinse parsley and cilantro. Dry them well and chop the leaves finely.
Peel the garlic and crush it slightly.
Put the cataplana on the stove, add 4 to 6 tablespoons of olive oil. With this oil brush the walls.
Place a layer at the bottom with half of the onions. Season with salt to taste. Add the bay leaves, the crushed garlic and pepper.
Then distribute the clams and fish slices. Season with salt and paprika to taste and sprinkle with parsley and cilantro.
Over the fish, distribute the pieces of tomato, pepper and remaining onion. Season with salt to taste.
Place the mussels and shrimps on top. Season to taste and sprinkle with remaining parsley and cilantro.
Finally add a dash of white wine.
Put the lid on the cataplana and put it on medium heat for half an hour, until all the ingredients are released their juices.
It is done. Serve immediately to prevent the fish to dry. Enjoy!
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
You can vary the fish and seafood as you wish. For example add monk fish or salmon or prawns or even crab legs.
After half an hour, check whether vegetables and fish are cooked. If they are still a little raw, cook a little longer. The vegetables should not be completely cooked.
If you use a glass of “vinho verde” white wine is much better. The “vinho verde” is a variety of Portuguese wine.
You can also accompany this seafood cataplana with a glass of the very “vinho verde”.
You can reuse the broth to cook rice for example, or making seafood soup. Or even Japanese noodles, why not?
There are many other recipes for cataplana. A very well known is
pork with clams
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