Name: Fideuà
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 medium red mullet or gurnard, about 300 g, scaled and gutted; 100 ml extra virgin olive oil; 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced; 2 ripe tomatoes, cut in 2 cm chunks; 12 clams; a small pinch (20–30 strands) saffron 500 ml fish stock; 12 smallish shell-on prawns home-made aïoli to serve, and lemon wedges (optional); 12 mussels; 1 teaspoon smoked paprika; 1 bay leaf; 1 ñora pepper, seeded and soaked in hot water then chopped (or 1 extra teaspoon smoked paprika); 250 g vermicellini; 1 medium onion, chopped relatively finely; 1 red pepper, seeded and chopped like the onion

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Geometry of Pasta

By Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy

Published 2010

About

Punctuating this book, like well-hidden Easter eggs, are a few non-Italian recipes. This Valencian recipe made the cut because it is perhaps the best thing to do with vermicellini. It is basically a paella, with noodles in place of rice.

Ingredients

250 g vermicellini
1 medium onion, chopped relatively finely
1 red pepper, seeded

Method

Fry the onion, both kinds of pepper and the garlic in the oil with a pinch of salt over a medium-low heat. Cook for a good 15 minutes, until jammy. Add the tomatoes and cook for a few minutes more. Cut the head from the fish (do this in advance and use in the fish stock, if making your own), and cut the flesh across into six to eight bone-in chunks.

Season the fish well and add to the p