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The Cartoon Kitchen: Clam, Shrimp, Ham Soup

Posted by Ed Levine, June 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM

This week's Cartoon Kitchen features Serious Eats' cartoonist in residence Larry Gonick's spin on a quick seafood soup. —Ed Levine

Ingredients

1/2 cup onions, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
Olive oil
2 canned tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped ham or linguiça sausage
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 bay leaf
2 cans minced clams (and their juice)
1/3 cup white wine
Pinch of saffron
3 to 4 cups water
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 cup cooked rice
8 to 12 raw shrimp

Procedure

1. Sauté the onions and garlic cloves in olive oil. Add the 2 canned tomatoes, the ham, and the parsley and bay leaf. Simmer 5 minutes.

2. Combine with the juice from the cans of clam, the white wine, a pinch of saffron, 3 to 4 cups water, and the lemon juice. Simmer 15 minutes.

3. Add the cooked rice, 8 to 12 raw shrimp, and the clam meat. Serve when shrimp turn pink.

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