Cioppino – Seafood Stew
Nov 16, 2025 11:50 AM
Cioppino is a delicious Italian-American seafood stew with a rich tomato base and loaded with all your favorite seafood like white fish, clams, mussels, and shrimp. This is an easy seafood soup to make at home!
This is an Italian-American fish stew that was first created in San Francisco in the late 1800’s by the local Italian immigrant fishermen.
Originally, Cioppino was created as a way to use all of the day’s leftover catch, that’s why it often uses a medley of seafood.
Usually Cioppino would include seafood like fresh fish, shellfish like shrimp and crab, clams, mussels, and scallops.
While this seafood stew is somewhat customizable, I’ve found my own personal favorite blend of ingredients with this recipe.
The broth is rich and boldly flavored, which perfectly compliments the vast amount of seafood at play. And remember, you can play around with your own combination of seafood at home!
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 shallots
- 2 medium carrots
- 2 small leeks or 1 large leek
- 4-5 garlic cloves
- 1 1/2 cups dry white wine
- 2-14.5 oz cans of fire roasted diced tomatoes
- 4 oz tomato paste
- 2 1/2-3 cups fish stock or seafood stock
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes more or less to taste
- 1 tbsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt more or less to taste
- 1/2 lb mussels
- 1/2 lb manila clams or littleneck clams
- 1 lb jumbo shrimp deveined but in shell when possible
- 1 lb white fish of choice
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
50 minutes
Total Time:
60 minutes
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