Clam Bake Stew Rachael Ray Recipes

FOOL-I-YA-BAISE SEAFOOD STEW

Steps:

• Heat a wide, heavy pot over medium high heat. Add 3 turns of the pan, about 3 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil. Add garlic, leeks, onions, celery and bay. Season with salt and pepper. Add thyme sprigs, orange peels and 2 handfuls parsley, reserving some chopped parsley for garnish. Stir to combine seasonings with vegetables. Saute vegetables 5 to 8 minutes, until leeks are tender, but still green. Add wine and stir in 1 to 2 minutes. Add chicken stock and tomatoes and stir well to combine. Arrange cut fish and scallops around the pan. Spoon soup stock over and around seafood. Season with salt and pepper. Cover pan and cook 10 to 12 minutes, until fish and scallops are opaque.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
• Spread baguette slices across a cookie sheet. Reserve at least 6 slices for rouille. Place sheet in oven to lightly toast sliced bread.
• For rouille, in a food processor, place 4 cloves garlic, drained roasted red peppers, and chile peppers or chili flakes. Tear the 6 pieces of the sliced baguette into pieces and arrange around the food processor bowl. Steal a ladle of the stock, about 1/4 cup, from fish stew as it cooks and pour it over the bread to moisten it. Pulse pepper and bread together, then turn processor on. Stream in about 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil in a slow, steady stream. When mixture is smooth and well combined, transfer to a small serving bowl.
• When fish and scallops are cooked through, arrange cooked seafood in shallow bowls. Stir soup and ladle it down and over seafood. Be on the lookout for bay leaves, thyme stems or orange peels and discard as you find them, while you are serving up stew. Garnish stew with remaining parsley. Serve fool-i-ya-baise with toasted bread rounds, which should be spread with rouille and set afloat on top of bowls of stew.

CLAM BAKE STEW - RACHAEL RAY

Steps:

• Heat a large soup pot with the oil over medium-high heat. Add the kielbasa and brown for 2 minutes, then add the hash browns, onions, celery, bay leaf, thyme, salt, and pepper. Sauté and let the veggies soften up, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.
• Pat the shrimp dry and season by tossing in a bowl with the seafood seasoning.
• Add the corn, tomatoes, and stock to the pot and cover to bring up to a boil, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the shrimp and clams and replace the lid. Cook until the shrimp are pink and firm and the clams have opened, 5 to 6 minutes. Stir in hot sauce to taste, the lemon zest and juice, and the parsley.
• While the stew cooks, toast the English muffins. Rub the hot toasted muffins with the cut sides of the garlic, then butter the muffins and sprinkle with the chives. Chop the muffins into large dice.
• Serve the stew in shallow bowls topped with the muffin croutons. Place an extra bowl at each place to collect the clam shells.

ROASTED CRAB & CLAM BAKE

Steps:

• heat oven to 400*F.
• in large roasting pan layer crab, clams, potatoes, corn and onions.
• in a medium bowl stir together remaining ingredients, (except bay leaves and butter) pour over ingredients in roasting pan.
• add bay leaves, cover and bake for 30 minutes.
• then stir to baste with pan juices, continue baking covered stirring after 15 minutes for 30 to 35 minutes, or until seafood is steamed and vegetables are fork tender.
• remove bay leaves.
• dot butter over top of seafood and vegetables.
• serve with pan juices.

SPICY CLAM AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the chowder: In a soup pot or a Dutch oven, heat the EVOO over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook until crisp, about 5 minutes. Add the corn and cook until the kernels are lightly browned at the edges, 6 to 8 minutes. Add the seafood seasoning, thyme, garlic, celery, bay leaves, chiles and onions, and cook until softened, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in the chicken stock and tomatoes. Bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat.
• For the croutons: Arrange the English muffin cubes on a wire rack set over a baking sheet. Toast in the oven until light golden. Melt the butter with the hot sauce. Place the croutons in a bowl and toss with the parsley, seafood seasoning and the butter mixture. Return to the rack set over the baking sheet and bake until deeply golden. Let cool.
• To finish the chowder: Place the clams and beer in a large pot with a tight-fitting lid, and season with sea salt and pepper. Cover and bring to a boil, then cook at a rapid simmer until the clams open, 3 to 5 minutes. Discard any unopened clams.
• Divide the clams and the cooking liquid among 4 shallow bowls. Ladle the corn chowder over top and garnish with the croutons. Serve with hot sauce.
• Cook's Notes: You can make the chowder base up to 5 days ahead. Cool and store in the refrigerator, then reheat over a medium flame. Buy the clams within 48 hours of serving and cook them just before you're ready to serve.
• You can store the croutons in an airtight container or in a foil pouch until ready to use.

BUTTERED BEETS (RACHAEL RAY RECIPE)

Steps:

• In a medium skillet over moderate heat melt 2 tablespoons butter, add parsley and sliced beets.
• Warm through, season with salt and serve.

CLAM CHOWDER / STEW

Steps:

• Fry bacon in a large Dutch oven until crisp, remove with slotted spoon and set aside.
• Add onion to pot, saute until softened, then add potatoes and chicken stock.
• Season with salt and cayenne, cover and cook for 15 minutes.
• In a second large saucepan, melt butter, whisk in flour, whisking to make a roux.
• Cook for 1 minute, then add cream and milk while whisking.
• Cook over low heat until thickened.
• Pour into onion and potato mixture, add clams, 2 cans undrained, add clams only, from the other cans reserving the juice.
• Add Worcestershire and bacon.
• Add the other 2 cans of reserved juice a bit at a time to reach desired consistency and only if you want the soup less thick.
• Stir and gently cook over moderate heat until heated through.
• Transfer to soup tureen and garnish with parsley and paprika if using.

RACHAEL'S CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a medium pot over medium high heat, melt butter. Add bacon and onions, celery and thyme sprigs. Season with salt, pepper, Old Bay and hot sauce and cook 5 minutes. Add flour and cook a minute more.
• Add half-and-half and stock and bring to a bubble, then stir in potatoes and clams. Bring soup back to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes, until potatoes are cooked and soup has thickened to coat the back of a spoon.
• Remove thyme sprigs before serving. The leaves will have fallen off into the soup.

FISHERMAN'S STOUP

Steps:

• For the seafood base: Place the red onion, chile pepper, lemon zest, garlic, parsley, thyme, and bay leaves in a food processor and process ingredients into paste.
• For the soup base: In a Dutch oven, heat the extra-virgin olive oil and anchovies over medium-high heat, when the anchovies melt into the oil add the seafood base and stir 3 to 4 minutes then add the celery, potatoes, and red pepper and cover the pot 4 to 5 minutes to sweat them out, stirring occasionally. Deglaze the pot with beer. Add tomatoes and chicken stock and bring to a boil, simmer for 20 minutes or until it has reduced by a third, then turn off the heat, cool and store for a make-ahead meal.
• To reheat: Reheat over medium-high heat. Crust up and warm bread in a hot oven. When the stoup comes to a boil, fold or nestle the cod and scallops into the liquid, and return to a bubble, cook for 5 to 6 minutes, until the fish is opaque and cooked through, then turn off the heat. Serve immediately with lots of bread for mopping.

CONGO BARS (RACHAEL RAY)

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350°F.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Set aside.
• Combine the butter and sugar using a mixer until blended.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, to the sugar mixture, mixing on low in between each addition.
• Add the vanilla and mix.
• Add the flour and mix until combined.
• Stir in the chips.
• Coat a 9-inch x 13-inch pan with nonstick cooking spray and spread the batter evenly into the dish.
• Bake for 30 minutes, then cover the top with foil to avoid over-browning.
• Bake for another 10-15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with moist crumbs. You will think they are under-done, but they aren't. Make sure you don't overbake!