Seafood Risotto

Ingredients

• 1.4 onions, sliced
• 2.4 garlic cloves, or 1–2 T. garlic paste (handwritten annotation)
• 3.30 gram butter
• 4.4 tablespoon oil
• 5.ground coriander, approximately 2⅔ tablespoons
• 6.Lawry's Seasoned Salt and Pepper, with 1 T. sugar
• 7.tinned tomato purée, seasoned with 2 T. castor sugar, Lawry's Seasoned Salt and Pepper
• 8.0.5 tablespoon salt
• 9.tinned clams, with juice
• 10.2 tablespoon fresh mixed herbs, thyme, mint, rosemary, dill
• 11.whole red chillies, 1–2
• 12.180 millilitre red wine
• 13.1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 14.60 millilitre fish stock
• 15.small crabs, pre-cooked; 2 boxes (or 1½ if using large crabs)
• 16.6 langoustines, cleaned, heads on, pincers off
• 17.12 prawns, cleaned, heads on
• 18.1 packet mussels, pre-cooked
• 19.fish stock with ginger paste, 2–2½ cups stock with 2 t. ginger paste
• 20.ground coriander, ground cumin, chicken stock powder, 3 t. coriander, 3 t. cumin, 1 t. chicken stock powder
• 21.roasted garlic peppers, optional
• 22.arrowroot, 2–4 tablespoons if needed for thickening

Method

1. 1.Lightly sauté onions till golden brown in butter and oil — drain and add garlic.
2. 2.Add spices and stir till fragrances released.
3. 3.Add seasoned tomatoes, purée, clams with juice, chillies, capers, herbs, raspberry vinegar, soya, red wine, bayleaves and chilli pepper.
4. 4.Bring to boil and reduce by half.
5. 5.Add cooked crab and mussels.
6. 6.Cook langoustines and prawns separately in water seasoned with chicken stock and a fish head.
7. 7.When cooked, add to mixture with 2–3 cups spiced and seasoned stock and refrigerate overnight.
8. 8.Keep stock in case you need more sauce — add 1 t. garlic and ginger paste, 1 t. ground coriander and 1 t. ground cumin for every extra cup of stock used.
9. 9.Thicken with arrowroot if necessary.

Notes

• Despite the name 'risotto', this recipe contains no rice — it is a rich, heavily spiced seafood stew. The name may be used loosely.
• Make-ahead dish — refrigerating overnight is part of the method.
• The recipe card has extensive handwritten annotations adding, adjusting and crossing out ingredients. The main typed ingredients are transcribed above; see margin_notes for handwritten additions.
• Raspberry vinegar appears in the method but is not listed in the ingredients — likely an omission.

Margin notes

• Garlic cloves: handwritten note says '1-2 T. garlic paste' as alternative
• Thicken with arrowroot: handwritten '2-4 T'
• Chillies annotated as addition in method
• use ¼ tsp purée or ½ to 1 Cup chicken stock or lamb/beef (handwritten)