Hapuku Stew

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Grant Dixon
Prep:20 minutes Cook:30 minutes Difficulty:2

Ingrediants:

• 1 kilogram hapuku fillets, chunked.
• 3 onions, chopped.
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed.
• 1 red capsicum, seeded and diced.
• 600-gram tin tomatoes.
• 2 teaspoons tomato paste.
• 2 cups fish stock or water.
• 700 grams boiling potatoes, diced.
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice.
• 2 teaspoons paprika.
• 1 tablespoon chilli paste.
• 1 teaspoon chilli flakes.
• 12 mussels, cooked.
• 12 scallops.
• Cornflour.
• Olive oil.

Directions:

• In a large pot sauté onions and garlic in olive oil until soft and golden.
• Stir in paprika, tomato paste, chilli flakes and chilli paste, mixing well.
• Add capsicum, canned tomatoes, fish stock and potatoes.
• Bring to boil and simmer until potatoes are just cooked.
• Add fish pieces, scallops, mussels, lemon juice, salt and cracked pepper.
• Simmer until fish and scallops are cooked.
• Thicken with a little cornflour mixed with water.
• Serve with bread of choice.