sicilian fish stew

An all-star recipe for fish stew with a Sicilian twist! The comfort of Italian flavors in one delicious stew cooked in a white wine-tomato broth with garlic, capers, raisins more!

Sicilian-Style Fish Stew Recipe

Private Reserve extra virgin olive oil

yellow onion, chopped

celery ribs, chopped

Salt and pepper

garlic cloves, minced

thyme

red pepper flakes

dry white wine

low-sodium vegetable broth

golden raisins

capers,

lb skinless sea bass

parsley

tbsp toasted pine nuts, optional

Crusty Italian bread

Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in 5-quart Dutch oven (like this one) over medium heat. Add onions, celery, and a little salt and pepper (about 1/2 tsp each). Cook, stirring regularly, until softened (about 4 minutes). Add thyme, red pepper flakes and garlic and cook briefly until fragrant (about 30 more seconds).

Now, stir in the white wine and reserved tomato juice from can. Bring to a simmer, and cook until the liquid is reduced by about 1/2. Add the tomatoes, vegetable broth, raisins, and capers. Cook for 15-20 minutes over medium heat until flavors combine.

Pat the fish dry and season lightly with salt and pepper. Insert the fish pieces into the cooking liquid, and give everything a gentle stir so that the fish pieces are nicely covered in the cooking liquid. Bring to a simmer and cook for another 5 minutes. Remove the Dutch oven from the heat and cover. Let sit off heat for another 4-5 minutes so that the fish will finish cooking. Fish should be flaky when gently pulled apart with a paring knife. Finally, stir in the chopped parsley.

Ladle the hot fish stew into serving bowls, top each with a few toasted pine nuts, if you like. Serve with your favorite crusty bread! Enjoy!

I enjoyed preparing it and we LOVED eating it!

I like to do with what I have on hand so I often use substitutes. I did not have any celery left but I had a leftover piece of leek, and a carrot, so that is what I used to make the base. I used grouper fillets AND added shrimp +  a small jar of clams I wanted to use up from the pantry ; I also substituted thyme for rosemary (which I have a lot of). We loved the variety of seafood and the earthy flavor of the leek was a nice touch, balanced with the sweetness of the carrot. 

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Absolutely delicious. I used cod, added spinach and used currants instead of raisins as that's what I had on hand. That pop of sweetness is incredible. This will be my go-to fish stew recipe moving forward, thank you!

I made this last night and cut recipe in half since there were only 2 for dinner.  I had cod so that is what I used.  Absolutely delicious and I will be making it again and again.

WOW, Fish was TENDER &amp; FLAVORFUL!!!  This was my first time making fish outside my Asian comfort zone.  (Chinese Steamed Fish w/ Dried Mushrooms &amp; Ginger/Scallion Oil AND Japanese Baked Miso Fish are my only go-to's for decades 🥺).  What a brilliant recipe technique -- the simmering of fish submerged in sauce for 4-min, then heat off &amp; covered an add'l 4-min... to complete cooking  Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this secret!  Used frozen Chilean Sea Bass (sitting in freezer 1+ year.  Changed up ingredients:  2x garlic/onions/celery/capers (wanted a "meatier" outcome, since Stew was standalone w/out bread -- keto limitation); substituted dried GoldenBerries (tart berry from Peru) for the Golden Raisins.  So excited to have a 3rd Fish recipe in my rotation!

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