2-3 cups cooked Bluebird Grain Farms Emmer Farro, or other farro (instructions below)
2 dried ancho chiles
2 cups clam or seafood nectar
1 cup dry white wine
1 cup ancho chile water, from below
shells from 1 pound prawns, from below
several sprigs parsley
2 tablespoons cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil
2 Spanish dried chorizo sausages, diced (about 4 ounces or 1 cup diced) (City Market in Portland, Oregon sells an excellent Spanish dried chorizo called Palacios; 4 small sausages per package for $8.50)
2 cups chopped yellow onion
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced or pressed
2 teaspoons smoked sweet paprika (Whole Foods carries it; it is essential to the smoky flavor of this soup)
2 cups reduced seafood stock, from above
14½ ounce can chopped tomatoes with juice
14½ ounce can crushed tomatoes
½ large green bell pepper, chopped
½ large red bell pepper, chopped
fine sea salt
ground black pepper
1 pound large prawns in the shell
1 pound small manila clams, shells tightly closed, scrubbed
½ pound small Washington blue mussels, shells tightly closed, scrubbed and debearded
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