Alexs Seafood Soup Recipes

PUERTO RICAN SEAFOOD SOUP: ASOPAO DE MARISCOS

Steps:

• In a large stockpot, add enough olive oil to coat the bottom the pan thinly and saute the large diced white onion and large diced green pepper until translucent. Add lobster heads and shrimp shells. Cook until color starts changing and starts to look red. Add tomato sauce, white wine, and bay leaf. Add clam juice and water. Cook for at least 2 hours, then strain.
• In a medium size stockpot, saute the small diced onion, and small diced pepper until translucent. Add rice, clams, mussels, bay leaf, and a pinch of saffron. Add all strained seafood stock and cook until rice is soft, approximately 20 minutes. Add shrimp, scallops, and lobster. Cook for approximately 8 minutes. Add culantro and season with salt and pepper.

SEAFOOD SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and green pepper; cook and stir until tender. Add carrots and garlic; cook 3 minutes longer. Stir in tomato sauce, tomatoes, wine and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 30 minutes., Stir in salmon, shrimp and parsley. Cook, covered, 7-10 minutes longer or until fish flakes easily with a fork and shrimp turn pink. Discard bay leaf.

ALEX'S SEAFOOD SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and clean prawns, leaving tails intact and reserving the heads and then using a sharp knife, butterfly the prawns by slicing along the underside, from head end to tail, without cutting all the way through.
• Heat the oil and butter in a large saucepan over medium high heat and add the garlic and reserved prawn heads, and cook, stirring for 1 minute and then add stock and then the water and bring to the boil.
• Once the stock comes to the boil, remove pan from the heat and strain liquid through a colander into a bowl and discard the prawn heads and return the stock to the pan.
• Add pasta sauce and mussels and stir to combine and cover and bring to the boil over hight heat and cook for 1 minute or until shells open.
• Add the prawns and fish and cook a further 2 minutes or until the seafood is cooked through and then stir in the parsley and season with salt and pepper.
• Serve with lemon wedges and crusty bread if you wish.