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     Title: CIOPPINO *** (EXPT46B)
Categories: Main dish, Seafood, Italian, Holiday
     Yield: 8 servings

    24    Clams or mussels*
     1 tb Corn starch
     3    Small lobsters; or
     3    Dungeness crabs; cracked
   1/2 c  Olive oil
     2    Cloves
          Minced garlic
     2    Chopped onions
     6    Chopped green onions
     3    Chopped ribs of celery
     1    Chopped green bell pepper
     1 ts Chopped fresh thyme
     1    Bay leaf
     2 c  Chopped fresh tomatoes
     1 cn Plum tomatoes
     2 c  Red or white wine
     1 ts Crushed fennel seed
          Good sized pinch saffron
   1/4 c  Chopped parsley
          Salt and pepper to taste
    32    Small cleaned shrimp
     2 lb Red snapper; cut into pieces
     1    Clove garlic
     1 ts Anchovy paste

 * cleaned and scrubbed SOAK CLAMS OR MUSSELS IN A
 LARGE POT OF COLD WATER with corn starch. Drain
 several times in cold water. Clean and cut into pieces
 lobsters or crabs. Crack as needed. Heat olive oil in
 a large pot and add cloves; garlic, onions, celery,
 bell pepper, thyme, bay leaf, tomatoes, wine, fennel
 seed, saffron, parsley and salt and pepper. Cook 5
 minutes. Add shrimp and snapper, cook, covered,
 stirring once, for 5 minutes. Mash in 1 clove garlic
 with anchovy paste and stir into stew. Cook 5 more
 minutes.    Philip Schulz
    PRODIGY service Guest Chef FROM: GUEST CHEF
 (EXPT46B)

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