Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 Green onions 1/4 ts Pepper
3/4 c Short-grain rice (such as 1/2 ts Salt (optional)
-Valencia, arborio or pearl) 2/3 c Frozen petite peas (do not
-OR -thaw)
Long grain rice 8 Live blue mussels OR
1 cn Stewed tomatoes (16 oz.) 8 sm Live greenshell mussels
1 cn Low-salt or regular chicken 6 oz Raw medium shell-on shrimp
-broth (14 1/2 oz.) 3/4 lb Orange Roughy, cut into 1
3/4 ts Dry Thyme -inch pieces

Finely slice green onions; reserve 1/4 cup of the green tops for garnish.
In a deep microwaveable casserole bowl or 8 cup measure, combine onions.
rice, tomatoes and their liquid, broth, thyme, pepper and salt (dish needs
to be twice the height of these combined ingredients).

Cover dish tightly and microwave on high (100% power) for 16 minutes,
rotating the dish a quarter turn halfway through cooking.

Remove the dish from microwave; stir in peas. Arrange mussels and shrimp
alternately around the edge of dish, sticking mussels upright into the rice
mixture and shrimp head down and tail toward center (they do not need to be
completely covered with liquid). Arrange fish pieces in an even layer in
center, on top of the rice mixture.

Cover and microwave on high until most of the fish has turned opaque
throughout and mussels open, 5 to 8 minutes more. Mixture will look saucy.
Let stand, covered, about 3 minutes for fish to finish cooking. Serve in
wide shallow bowls and sprinkle with reserved green onions over each
serving. Makes 4 servings.

Note: Clams, Scallops and Grouper may be substituted.

Per serving: 345 Calories, 31 g Protein, 35 g Carbohydrates, .6 g Saturated
Fat, 1 g Monounsaturated Fat, .8 g Polyunsaturated Fat, .4 g Omega-3 Fat,
83 mg Cholesterol, 700 mg Sodium.

SOURCE: *Simply Seafood, Spring 1992 SHARED BY: Jim Bodle 4/92

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