Seafood Stew with Cabbage and Carrots Recipe

Seafood Stew with Cabbage and Carrots Recipe

  • 1 1/2 cups bottled clam juice
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 1/2 cup Riesling wine
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried
  • 12 clams, scrubbed
  • 10 ounces orange roughy fillets, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 6 large uncooked shrimp, peeled, deveined
  • 6 large sea scallops
  • 1/3 cup whipping cream
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 4 cups thinly sliced green cabbage (about 1/2 medium head)
  • 1 large carrot, peeled, grated
  1. Boil clam juice, onion, Riesling, garlic and thyme in heavy Dutch oven 15 minutes. Add clams. Cover and cook until clams open, about 6 minutes. Using tongs, transfer clams to bowl. Discard any clams that do not open. Add fish, shrimp and scallops to Dutch oven and simmer until seafood is just cooked through, about 3 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer fish, shrimp and scallops to bowl with clams. Add cream and boil until liquid is reduced to 3/4 cup, about 25 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add cabbage and carrot and sauté until cabbage wilts, about 4 minutes.
  3. Return shellfish mixture to Dutch oven and stir to heat through. Divide cabbage mixture between 2 shallow soup bowls. Ladle shellfish stew over.