California Cioppino Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 large sweet green bell pepper, chopped
• ½ cup sliced celery
• 2 medium garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tsp. dried basil leaves
• 1/3 cup olive or vegetable oil
• 1 can (28oz.) Italian style pear or plum tomatoes, undrained
• 2 cups dry white wine
• 1 bottle (8 oz.) clam juice
• 1 cup water
• 1 can tomato paste
• 2/3 cup chopped parsley
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 Sunkist® lemon, cut into cartwheel slices
• 1 ½ lbs. sea bass, halibut or other firm white fish, cut into 2 inch pieces
• 12 hard shell clams, well scrubbed
• ½ lb. bay scallops
• ½ lb. medium to large shrimp, shelled and deveined
• ½ Sunkist® lemon, juiced
• 1 to 1 1/2 lbs. cooked crab legs, thawed if frozen, cut in 2 to 3 inch pieces and cracked (optional)