Seafood, sausage, and tomato chowder with spicy red pepper

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
¼ cup Olive oil
2 mediums Onions; chopped
4 Cloves garlic; minced
1½ cup Finely chopped fresh parsley
1 cup Dry white wine or imported dry vermouth
1 can Italian plum tomatoes with their juice; (28-ounce)
2 cups Clam juice or fish stock
1 can Tomato paste; (6-ounce)
1 teaspoon Pepper
1 teaspoon Dried thyme
1 teaspoon Dried basil
1 pinch Saffron
Salt to taste
½ pounds Hot-style bulk sausage; casings removed
¾ pounds Extra-large or jumbo shrimp; (allow 3 per person)
¾ pounds Scallops
1 Dozen clams; scrubbed
¾ pounds Flounder fillets; cut into 1-inch
; cubes
1 slice White; wheat, or egg
; bread, crusts
; removed
3 tablespoons Broth from chowder
3 larges Clov garlic; peeled
½ Jar roasted red peppers; drained (7-ounce)
2 tablespoons Parsley sprigs
½ teaspoon Dried basil
½ teaspoon Salt
6 drops Tabasco sauce
3 tablespoons Olive oil; up to 4

Directions

BROTH

SPICY RED PEPPER PUREE

To make broth:

In a large, heavy soup pot over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add onions, garlic, and parsley and saute' 5 minutes or until soft but not brown. Add wine, juice of tomatoes, and tomatoes, breaking them up with your fingers, clam juice or stock, tomato paste and spices; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Meanwhile, cook sausage in a skillet, breaking up with a fork, until no longer pink. Drain off fat and add to soup. Simmer 45 minutes or until thickened slightly, stirring occasionally. (The chowder can be refrigerated up to 2 days or frozen.) To make Red Pepper puree':

Soak bread in 3 tablespoons soup until liquid is absorbed. Mince garlic in food processor with metal blade. Add bread, red pepper, parsley, basil, salt, and Tabasco sauce and process until pureed'. With machine running, add just enough olive oil to make a paste. The puree' may be refrigerated up to 2 days, if desired.

Before serving: Bring soup to a simmer. Add clams, cover, and boil slowly until clams begin to open, about 10 minutes. Add shrimp, scallops, and flounder and continue cooking, uncovered, stirring until clams are open and shrimp are pink, about 10 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve in soup bowls. Pass Red Pepper Puree' and let each guest stir desired amount into chowder. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Marlene Sorosky, award-winning cookbook author (copyright 1992).

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Recipe by: Good Morning America Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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