Mediterranean Fish Stew
A Stokes recipe by a passionate contributor
- Serves 4
- 40 minutes
What you'll need
- 1 Spanish onion, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 bell pepper, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, grated
- 2 tins chopped tomatoes
- 125ml vegetable stock
- 125ml white wine
- cod loin about 500g (4 x medium sized), roughly cubed
- Handful of pitted olives
This is a very tasty, slightly spicy cross between a stew and a soup, begging to be eaten with a torn piece of buttered baquette. We simply use cod here, but you can add squid, prawns – anything you wish.
Method
- In butter, fry the onion, celery, garlic, and pepper to soften for 7 or 8 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, 3 good glugs of Bloody Mary Ketchup and 1 (to taste) of our Chilli Ketchup. Bring it to a boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer for 10mins or so, lid off, to reduce the liquid. Add the wine and stock and continue simmering for 10 minutes.
- Gently stir in the fish, season with salt and pepper and a handful of pitted olives.
- Cover and simply let it sit, off the heat, for a further 10 minutes.
- The fish will soak up the sauces and poach very gently.