Fish Stew
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Recipe type: Fish
 
Ingredients
  • 4 6-ounce halibut fillets – cod or white fish
  • 2 tablespoons hot ajvar – more if you like
  • 3 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 cup diced carrots
  • 1 cup diced potatoes
  • 1 cup diced celery
  • 1 cup canned Great Northern beans, rinsed, drained – (I used a can of beans.)
  • 1 cup bottled clam juice
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
  • 2 clove minced garlic – more if you like
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
  2. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper.
  3. Spread ½ tablespoon hot ajvar on each side of each fish fillet. Set aside.
  4. Heat oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over medium heat.
  5. Add onions, carrots, celery, then garlic; sauté until tender, about 8 minutes.
  6. Mix in hot ajvar, rinsed beans, potatoes, clam juice.
  7. Season with salt.
  8. Bring to boil.
  9. Arrange fish atop vegetable mixture in the pot.
  10. Cover and bake until fish is opaque in center, about 20 minutes.
  11. Add the shrimp – they only take a few minutes – to avoid rubbery shrimp do not overcook.
  12. When fish is cooked adjust the seasoning and add the parsley.
Notes
Serve hot with parmesan scones and a good wine.

You can cook the base of the fish stew a day ahead and then you only need to add the fish and any other seafood of your choice the day of.
Recipe by Make Mine Lemon at https://www.makeminelemon.com/fish-stew/