Red Lobster Seafood Chili Recipe

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Ready in: > 2 hrs
recipe difficulty 4/5

Difficulty: 4 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes: 6

Ingredients:
1/4 cup Olive oil
2 cups Chopped onions
2 Leeks, white only, trimmed
1 large celery stalk, chopped
8 Garlic cloves, minced
5 teaspoons Dried oregano
35 ounces Italian plum tomatoes,
16 ounces Clam juice
2 Dry red wine
1/2 cup "Santa Cruz Red Chili Paste"
5 teaspoons Freshly toasted cumin seed
1 tablespoon Salt
1 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
2 Red Bell peppers,seeded
12 Littleneck clams
12 Mussels, scrubbed
1 1/2 pound Scrod or lean white fish
12 large shrimp,peeled,devein
3/4 pound Bay scallops
1/2 cup Minced fresh cilantro

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Directions:

Heat oil in heavy Dutch oven over low heat. Add onion, leeks, and celery. Cover and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Add garlic and oregano, cook another 10 minutes then add tomatoes, breaking up with a spoon. Blend in the clam juice, wine, chili paste*, cumin, salt and cayenne. Bring to a boil, skimming occasionally.

Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, for about 1 hour, skimming. Mix in bell peppers. Simmer uncovered for 20 minutes.

Cool. refrigerate overnight. Bring chili to a boil. Adjust heat so that liquid simmers briskly. Stir well and adjust seasonings.

Add clams and mussels. Cover and cook until shellfish open, 5 to 10 minutes. Discard any that do not open. Gently stir in scrod and shrimp. Cover and simmer for a minute. Add scallops, cover and simmer until fish is just opaque, about 2 minutes. ladle chili into bowls. Top with cilantro.

*Santa Cruz Red Chili Paste" is available from The Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Co., P.O. Box 177, Tumacacori, AZ 65640.

This recipe from CDKitchen for Red Lobster Seafood Chili serves/makes 6

Recipe ID: 12621

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