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Rouille for Bouillabaisse

By America's Test Kitchen

Published on August 22, 2007

Time

10 minutes

Yield

Serves 8 to 10 (Makes about 1 cup)

Rouille for Bouillabaisse

Ingredients

1 large red bell pepper (about 9 ounces), roasted, peeled, seeded, and cut into large pieces (about ⅔ cup)2 ounces country-style French bread, trimmed of crust and cut into large cubes (about 2 cups)2 medium cloves garlic, minced finely or pressed through garlic press (about 2 teaspoons)⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper ½ cup olive oil

Instructions

  1. In workbowl of food processor fitted with steel blade, process roasted pepper, bread cubes, garlic, and cayenne until smooth, about 20 seconds. With machine running, drizzle olive oil through feed tube; process until rouille has thick, mayonnaise-like consistency. Season to taste with salt. Serve with bouillabaisse.
Rouille for Bouillabaisse

Rouille for Bouillabaisse

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Time

10 minutes

Yield

Serves 8 to 10 (Makes about 1 cup)

Ingredients

1 large red bell pepper (about 9 ounces), roasted, peeled, seeded, and cut into large pieces (about ⅔ cup)
2 ounces country-style French bread, trimmed of crust and cut into large cubes (about 2 cups)
2 medium cloves garlic, minced finely or pressed through garlic press (about 2 teaspoons)
⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ cup olive oil

Ingredients

1 large red bell pepper (about 9 ounces), roasted, peeled, seeded, and cut into large pieces (about ⅔ cup)
2 ounces country-style French bread, trimmed of crust and cut into large cubes (about 2 cups)
2 medium cloves garlic, minced finely or pressed through garlic press (about 2 teaspoons)
⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ cup olive oil

Ingredients

1 large red bell pepper (about 9 ounces), roasted, peeled, seeded, and cut into large pieces (about ⅔ cup)
2 ounces country-style French bread, trimmed of crust and cut into large cubes (about 2 cups)
2 medium cloves garlic, minced finely or pressed through garlic press (about 2 teaspoons)
⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ cup olive oil

Why This Recipe Works

For a bouillabaisse recipe that would make sense in the American kitchen—streamlined and economical—we simplified and improved homemade fish stock with fish frames from the fishmonger, chose appropriate and available seafood varieties, and topped it all off with a garlic-rubbed crouton and a nap of heady rouille.

Instructions

  1. In workbowl of food processor fitted with steel blade, process roasted pepper, bread cubes, garlic, and cayenne until smooth, about 20 seconds. With machine running, drizzle olive oil through feed tube; process until rouille has thick, mayonnaise-like consistency. Season to taste with salt. Serve with bouillabaisse.

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