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Dinner · 30 min · 4 bowls

Tomato fennel fish stew

Salmon stands in for a mixed catch.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 30 min

easy

Why tonight. Salmon stands in for a mixed catch.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • salmon
  • fennel
  • tomato
  • white wine
  • garlic

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: parsley.

Method

  1. Fennel sliced and softened in oil for ten minutes with the garlic. Raw fennel in a stew stays crunchy and aniseedy.
  2. Wine in and reduced hard before the tomato, so the raw alcohol edge cooks off.
  3. Tomato cooked down until it is a sauce rather than a liquid — that is the base, and it can be made hours ahead.
  4. The fish goes in last, off the boil, for four or five minutes only. It carries on cooking in the hot broth after the pot is off the heat.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

salmon
Fatty enough to forgive a lot, but not overcooking.
fennel
Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
white wine
Acid and a little sweetness for deglazing, and it should be something you would drink.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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