Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Cacciucco
Tuscan fish stew. Fennel and tomato, garlic, bread in the bowl. Seafood last. It should be a stew you eat with a spoon, not a sauté.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 30 min
mediumWhy tonight. Tuscan fish stew. Fennel and tomato, garlic, bread in the bowl. Seafood last. It should be a stew you eat with a spoon, not a sauté.
What it needs
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- shrimp
- tomato
- fennel
- garlic
- bread
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: white wine.
Method
- Fennel and garlic in oil first, wine reduced hard, then tomato cooked down into a real base.
- That base is the dish and it can be made hours ahead. The seafood is five minutes at the end.
- Everything added by cooking time, and shellfish lifted out as they open.
- Garlic-rubbed toast in the bottom of the bowl and the broth ladled over it.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughHow to knead bread doughKing Arthur Baking CompanyHand kneading, and how to tell when the gluten is developed rather than guessing at minutes.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughSourdough Bread | Basics with Babish (feat. Joshua Weissman)Binging with BabishMixing, proofing and shaping worked through slowly enough to follow the first time.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- shrimp
- Cooks in about two minutes and is ruined in three.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- fennel
- Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- bread
- Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
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