Caldeirada de Enguias
caldeirada

Caldeirada de Enguias

caldeirada de enguias
Caldeirada de Enguias
Time: 2 hours
Servings: 8
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aka Potuguese Monster Fish Stew

Caldeirada de Enguias is a Portuguese and Galician fish stew consisting of a wide variety of fish and potatoes. Described as “a fish muddle that varies from town to town and depends on what the fishermen have managed to catch.”

Wikipedia

albufeira fishermen
Albufeira fishermen with a Gilthead bream

This version of Caldeirada de Enguias or Portuguese monster fish stew uses conger eel steaks and other white fish, whatever you fancy really.

My parents owned an apartment on the Algarve for many years and the fish market on the seafront was well stocked with locally caught fish and shellfish. I can vouch that many of the fish for sale caught in deeper water were truly monsters and had lots of teeth!

black scabbard monster fish
Black scabbard fish in Madeira

And before you ask, no I never bought any, so I can’t tell you what they taste like.

Try a classic fish stew from Brittany, a Breton Cotriade.

caldeirada de enguias

Caldeirada de Enguias

The Hairy Bikers
Classic Portuguese Fish Stew with Conger Eel
4 from 1 vote
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Course Main Course
Cuisine 🇵🇹 Portuguese
Servings 8
Calories 543 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 6 onions medium, chopped
  • 8 cloves garlic crushed
  • 2 green pepper large, sliced
  • 75 ml olive oil
  • 60 g fresh flat-leaf parsley chopped
  • 1 pinch saffron
  • 450 g potato diced
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 12 peppercorns
  • 4 Tomato large, juicy, ripe, chopped
  • 75 ml tomato paste
  • 500 ml dry white wine
  • 250 ml water
  • 450 g squid cleaned
  • 25 clams or cockles
  • 900 g oily fish like mackerel, swordfish or tuna
  • 900 g white fish like conger eel, monkfish, hake or haddock
  • 225 g large raw prawns
  • 24 mussels
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 30 g fresh coriander chopped

Instructions
 

  • Slowly sweat off the onion, garlic and green peppers in the olive oil for about 10 minutes. After sweating, cover to stew very gently for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. This breaks down the green pepper to a more palatable form.
  • Add the parsley, saffron, potatoes, bay leaves, peppercorns, tomatoes, tomato paste, wine and water. Cover and simmer for ten minutes.
  • Add the squid and clams or cockles and simmer for another ten minutes.
  • Add the fish, prawns and mussels in layers. Don’t stir this as you’ll want the fish to cook in the broth.
  • Sprinkle with a heavy dose of the black pepper, cover and cook for about ten minutes or until the fish is cooked through and the mussels and clams or cockles are open. Discard any that don’t open.
  • Ladle the stew gently into vat-sized bowls and sprinkle with the chopped coriander.

Notes

Serve with bread. We also like to provide some piri piri as a dipping sauce alongside some olive oil laced with a little truffle oil to dip your bread into.
Keyword family, fish, Portuguese, sharing, squid

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