Ingredients

  • Olive oil to cook
  • 4 cups basmati rice
  • 5 minced large shallots
  • Sliced Chinese sausage (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons ginger, minced
  • 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
  • Salt and white pepper to taste
  • 1/2 tablespoon tumeric
  • 7 cups chicken stock
  • 1/2 pound Prince Edward Island mussels, scrubbed
  • 1/2 pound clams, manila, count necks, and little necks, scrubbed
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 6 ounces chilean bass, diced 1/2 inch thick
  • 6 ounces salmon, diced 1/2 inch thick
  • 6 ounces halibut, diced 1/2 inch thick
  • 2 cups snow peas, blanched
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon minced Thai bird chiles
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 cups canola oil
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • Salt and black pepper to taste

Method

  • In a hot oven-proof skillet coated with olive oil, saute rice, shallots, sausage (if using),1 tablespoon garlic and 1 tablespoon ginger for 4 to 6 minutes.
  • Season.
  • Add tumeric and stir for 2 minutes.
  • Add 6 cups stock and check for seasoning.
  • Cover and bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour or until rice has fully absorbed the broth.
  • Fluff with a fork, re-check seasoning.
  • In a hot large saute pan coated with olive oil, saute garlic and ginger.
  • Add mussels and clams and cook until they start opening.
  • Deglaze with wine and add fish and remaining cup of stock.
  • Add the snow peas 30 seconds before fish is cooked through.
  • In a food processor, add yolks, chiles, and garlic and puree.
  • Slowly drizzle in oil to emulsify.
  • Add juice and season.
  • Good in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
  • PLATING: Serve the seafood mixture over the rice in the skillet, drizzled with aioli.
  • Wine Suggestion: Bandol Rose Domaine Tempier, 1998