How To Cook Bouillabaisse In Marseilles Or Anywhere Else Recipe

Ingredients

  • • 3.5 kg firm, white fleshed fish; Pick 3 or 4 from Snapper, Rockfish, Monkfish, cod, Grouper, halibut, haddock, Ocean Catfish, Blackfish, etc.
  • • 2 kg “oily” fish; Pick 2 from Bluefish, Moray eel, Conger eel, mackerel, dogfish, striped bass, sea bass, Spanish mackerel, mahimahi (dolphinfish).
  • • 2.5 – 3kg Whole Main lobster; large shrimp may be used for part of this.
  • • 1 – 1.5kg mussels in their shell.
  • • 2kg small clams, in their shell.
  • • 5 Tbs butter
  • • 2 med. yellow onions peeled & sliced
  • • 8 – 10 cups water
  • • 2 bouquet garni each with 4 sprigs fresh parsley, 6 sprigs fresh thyme, 10 black peppercorns, and 1 bay leaf, tied in cheesecloth
  • • 1 cup dry white wine (decent stuff please)
  • • 1 ½ cups olive oil (extra virgin is okay but regular has more flavor)
  • • 6 – 8 large garlic cloves, finely chopped (to taste)
  • • A pinch of saffron stepped in ¼ cup hot water until needed
  • • ½ tsp saffron threads stepped in tepid dry white wine until needed
  • • 1 large yellow onion, finely chopped.
  • • 3 leeks, white and light green part only, halved lengthwise, and thinly sliced.
  • • 3 stalks celery, finely chopped.
  • • 2 pounds ripe plum tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
  • • 1 long thin strip of orange zest, no pith
  • • 1 Tbs fennel seed
  • • salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
  • • boiling water as needed
  • • 2 Tbs tomato past
  • • 2 Tbs anis flavored liquor, Pernod or ouzo
  • • ½ cup fresh parsley leaves, finely chopped.
  • • 1 Sauce rouille (see Sauce Rouille)

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