Inspired by a classic from the Algarve, this easy stew is a smoky, savory showcase for fresh seafood. Justin Chapple is a chef, recipe developer, food writer, video host, and cookbook author.

In the Algarve, along the southern coast of Portugal, servers wow guests not with silver domes but gleaming copper cataplanas. The clam-shaped pot, like two woks stacked together, lands on the ...

In the cataplana, add a generous drizzle of olive oil, then arrange in thin layers: onion, garlic, chili pepper, laurel leaf, ...

1. Place half the oil in the bottom of the cataplana or a large sauté pan with a tight fitting lid. Layer half the onion, tomatoes and chorizo in the pan. Season with salt and pepper. Place the ...

This recipe originated in the southern Algarve region, where cooks use a special copper ban called a cataplana. Since few people in the U.S. have them, Emeril Lagasse suggests trying a deep ...

The contraption is a Portuguese cataplana (which is also the name of the dish you make in it), and it was given to me years ago by a dear friend. The promise was that I would use it, as this ...

Food & Wine Culinary Director-at-Large Justin Chapple shares his recipe for Cataplana (Portuguese Fish Stew), a Portuguese seafood-and-pork stew named for the vessel that it's cooked and served in.

Cut the onions, tomatoes and peppers into rings. Put some of the mussels on the bottom of the Cataplana, then add a layer of onions, then one of tomatoes and one of peppers. Place the monkfish and ...

Enter the cataplana - the Algarve’s culinary star that is hard to pass. Somewhere in-between a North African tagine and Spain’s lovechild paella (minus the rice), cataplana also gets its name ...

Treat a cataplana like a wok for a seafood treat in the Portuguese style with a hint of Asia in it too. Imagine a sort-of wok that’s thought to be the forerunner of the pressure cooker.

A cataplana is both an item of cookware used to prepare Portuguese seafood dishes, and what the dishes are called. The cataplana is traditionally made of copper and shaped like two clamshells ...