Italian Fish Soup - Mediterranean Recipes

Ingredients

• 0 teaspoons black pepper
• 32 fl. oz.s cups fish stock or bottled clam juice
• 12 smalls hard-shelled clams such as littlenecks (less than 2 inches in diameter), scrubbed
• 237 milliliters dry white wine
• 59 milliliters chopped fresh basil
• 2 Tbsps finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1 garlic clove, halved crosswise
• 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 454 grams skinless halibut fillet, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 loaf (12-inch) Italian , cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices
• 12 mussels (preferably cultivated), scrubbed and beards removed
• 2 Tbsps olive oil
• 6 servings Accompaniment: extra-virgin olive oil for drizzling
• 0 teaspoons dried oregano, crumbled
• 1 teaspoons dried hot red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoons salt
• 227 grams shrimp in shell (21 to 25 per lb), peeled, leaving tail and first segment of shell intact, and deveined
• 454 grams cleaned squid, bodies and tentacles separated but kept intact
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 794 grams diced tomatoes in juice
• 1 liters water