Zarzuela Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the garlic and cook, being careful not to burn. Add the onions and peppers and saute for about 2 minutes. Add the marjoram, crushed red pepper, thyme and bay leaves. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and saute for 1 minute. Stir in the chili powder and saffron and cook for 30 seconds. Add the chicken stock and wine and bring to a boil. Add the tomatoes and brandy, if using, and bring to a boil. Add the fish, mussels, clams and shrimp, stir and bring back to a boil. When the clams open up, turn off the heat. Add the olives and squid, stir and let stand a few minutes. Discard the bay leaves and serve.

Steps:

• In a large enameled cast iron or other flameproof casserole, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions, garlic, and peppers and cook for 5 minutes, or until softened. Stir in the prosciutto and cook for 3 minutes more, stirring occasionally. Add the tomatoes and increase the heat to medium high. Stirring frequently to prevent the mixture from scorching, cook until the liquid from the tomatoes has evaporated. Stir in the ground almonds, saffron, thyme, rosemary, salt, black pepper, and red pepper flakes, and wine. Reduce the mixture until the wine has almost all evaporated. Add the fish stock and lemon juice, bring the mixture to a boil and add the clams and mussels. Reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan and cook for 10 minutes. Add the shrimp, scallops, and squid and cook for 5 minutes more, by which time all of the shellfish should have opened. Remove and discard any that have not. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary, and serve straight from the casserole into heated soup bowls, garnished with a wedges of lemon and toasted bread.

Steps:

• Take a large oven dish.
• Clean peppers and cut in rings.
• put some olive oil in pan, bake them for 3 minutes or so.
• Cook gambas until they are pink, throw water away let them cool.
• Now cut the white fish in large chunks and put a little flour on them.
• also put some flour on the squid.
• Take out the peppers, put them in the oven dish.
• Add some olive oil and now bake the white fish and squid.
• Just 1 minute each side, then put them in oven dish.
• Add the mussels and the glas of wine to the oven dish.
• Now clean the gambas, add these to the oven dish.
• The oil in the pan, add the brandy, and light it with a match.
• softly shake the pan, until the flames are gone, now add the juice to the oven dish.
• Heat oven until 200 degrees celsius.
• Now add the sofrito sauce.
• Sofrito sauce is a tomato, with garlick and onions sauce.
• You can buy these in jars, usually italian.
• Shake the oven dish a little bit, and place dish in oven for 20 minutes.
• Take a kitchen machine, and in here you put the 3 slices of bread without the crust, the almonds and the garlic.
• add a little olive oil!
• After 20 minutes you take out the oven dish, add the almond sauce, make sure all the fish is covered with the sofrito and almond sauce.
• Put oven dish for another 10 minutes in the oven.
• Now the dish is ready!

Steps:

• If the lobster is fresh, it must be cooked first Also cook the Dublin prawns first Heat 3 tablespoons of oil and fry the onions over a low heat, adding a few drops of water.
• When the onions are lightly golden, add the tomatoes until the oil separates and appears at the top , then put to one side. This is the "sofrito" Heat a little more oil and fry the bread.
• Place in a mortar with the almonds and 1 1/2 cloves of garlic and pound together to a fine paste or "picada" Put to one side To prepare the lobster, split it in half lengthwise. Remove and discard the intestinal vein which runs down the tail.
• To prepare the squid, pull the head, and tentacles away from the body.
• Pull off and discard the skin.
• Split the body in half to remove and discard the transparent bond section.
• Cut off the tentacles above the eye. Discard head and material inside the squid Wash remaining squid and slice. Season the monkfish,halibut, and lobster with salt and dust with a little flour.
• Heat a little oil and brown each fish separately, then the same with the prawns, squid and Dublin Bay prawns.
• As each is finished cooking drain, and arrange in a large flameproof earthenware dish.
• Add the mussels and clams.
• Add the remaining garlic and parsley and stand the dish over low heat. Pour over the brandy and flambe.( Light on fire) Pour in the "sofrito", just cover with hot water, bring to a boil and simmer for 4 minutes until the clams and mussels have opened.
• Discard any that remain closed.
• Mix in the "picada" and season to taste with salt. Cook for a further 5 minutes and serve immediately.
• IF YOU HAVE ANY ENERGY LEFT, enjoy!