Basque Seafood Stew | Saveur

Ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup plus 3 Tbsp. rendered duck fat
• 8 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
• 3 medium carrots, roughly chopped
• 2 medium yellow onions, roughly chopped
• 1 stick celery, roughly chopped
• Eight 6-oz. skin-on hake or black fillets, heads reserved
• Two 1 1/2-lb. lobsters, heads and tails removed, claws reserved
• 5 flat-leaf parsley leaves
• 4 sprigs thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1⁄4 cup armagnac
• 1⁄2 cup white wine
• 2 plum tomatoes, cored and roughly chopped
• Kosher salt
• Piment d'Espelette