Our Family's Basic Recipe for Bouillabaisse.
You can cook Our Family's Basic Recipe for Bouillabaisse using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Our Family's Basic Recipe for Bouillabaisse
- Prepare of Several kinds of your favorite seafood..
- You need of White fish (sea bream, grunt, etc) fillets.
- It’s of Squid.
- Prepare of pack Manila clams.
- It’s of Vegetables.
- Prepare of Onion.
- Prepare of cm Celery.
- You need of Carrot.
- You need of Potato.
- Prepare of Garlic.
- Prepare of Tomato (optional).
- Prepare of Flavoring ingredients:.
- Prepare of Olive oil.
- Prepare of Saffron.
- You need of White wine.
- You need of Water.
- You need of Consomme soup stock granules.
- You need of Bay leaf.
- Prepare of Salt and pepper.
- You need of Aioli-style sauce.
- Prepare of Garlic (grated).
- Prepare of Mayonnaise.
Our Family's Basic Recipe for Bouillabaisse step by step
Put the saffron in the water, and microwave (to make it fragrant). De-sand the clams..
Rinse any bloody parts of the fish, and sprinkle with salt. Chop the squid, and rinse the clams well..
Cut the potato into thin quarter-rounds, chop the tomato, and julienne the other vegetables..
Pour the olive oil in a pot, stir-fry the garlic over low heat until fragrant. Add all the vegetables except for the potato and tomato, and continue stir-frying..
When the vegetables become soft and tender, and the volume decreases to half, turn up the heat to medium, and add the clams. Pour in the white wine, and evaporate the alcohol..
When the clams start to open, add the warm water with saffron, consomme, bay leaf, squid, fish which was patted dry, tomato, and potato..
When it starts to boil, skim off the scum, turn down the heat to low. Simmer for about 5 ~ 8 minutes until the potato and fish are cooked through..
Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste, and it's done. Serve with aioli sauce..
Variation I cooked with saw-edged perch..
Variation I cooked mainly with blue mussel, without fish..
