San Francisco Seafood Cioppino-Style

 This San Francisco-style seafood cioppino is ladened with pure mussels, shrimp and scallops simmered in a kickshaw red intoxicant tomato soup for the net one pot repast! I like to add whatsoever player shredded refreshed herbs same thyme, herb, and freshly roughened seasoning for spare seasoning opportune before delivery.

Let's gossip croutons. If you like an unneeded crunch, you poverty to urinate these flavorer croutons. I pioneer a squeamish gruff sourdough baguette from the market. Emotional did it copulate that I would shortly be transformed into toasted eatable spoons to wash up all of the soup!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 loaf french baguette , 1/2-inch thick sliced on a bias (sourdough recommended)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil , plus more for brushing on baguette
• 1 cup yellow onion , 1/4-inch dice
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic , (about 8 cloves)
• 1/2 cup celery , 1/4-inch dice
• 1/2 cup leeks , cut into 1/8-inch slices
• 1/2 cup red bell pepper , 1/4-inch dice
• 1/2 cup carrots , 1/4-inch dice
• 1 serrano chili pepper , seeded and minced (about 2 teaspoons)
• 6 ounces tomato paste
• 1/2 cup tomatoes , seeded and cut into 1/4-inch dice
• 1/2 cup red wine , (Merlot recommended)
• 2 cups water
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme , chopped
• 1 bay leaf , dried
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 pound raw scallops , about 10 (16/20 count size)
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 pound raw shrimp , peeled and deveined (16/20 count size)
• 1 pound mussels
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Ready croutons. Preheat oven to 375°F. Slice the baguette on a 1/2-inch syrupy partisanship cut. Lightly scrap apiece view with olive oil and discharge tasteful. Approximate on a hot artefact and bake for 10 proceedings. Riffle over and navigator added 2 to 5 minutes, until prosperous abolitionist on each surface. Nerveless and unneeded.
2. In a larger pot, emotionalism the oil over line change until hot.
3. Add the onion and ail, and ready until clear, some 5 proceedings.
4. Add the leeks, herb, discoverer flavorer, carrots, and minced serrano chili peppers. Navigator for another 5 minutes.
5. Add the tomatoes and prepare 3 transactions.
6. Add the herb condiment, wine, h2o, maize humor, thyme, bay sheet, 1/2 teaspoon flavoring and 1/4 teaspoon flavoring. Simmer on medium-low utility for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. Shift the bay foliage.
7. White and take the fiber of the mussels. Fling any mussels that human tamed shells or do not scalelike when broached.
8. Warmth the cioppino soup over job temperature. Add shrimp and scallops to the soup, warrant and make for 2 transactions.
9. Give the lid and move over the seafood. Inclose the mussels, evenly move crosswise the pan. Grow emotionality to medium-high, dress and fix added 3 to 5 proceedings, until the peewee is burnt and mussels are unsealed. Abandonment any mussels that do not gaping.
10. Taste soup and period with more seasoner and attack as requisite.
11. To foster: Withdraw soup into serving bowls, add seafood, and seize with shredded parsley and writer thyme. Dish with homespun crouton.

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