Baccalà alla Napoletana - Italian Recipe

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Baccalà alla Napoletana

🌍 Italian, Naples/Campania Difficulty: ●●●○○


Naples' Christmas Eve salt cod braised in tomato with capers and olives. The cod must be soaked for two full days with frequent water changes. The tomato sauce is kept light — the fish is the centre, not the sauce.

Ingredients

  • 600g salt cod (soaked 2 days)
  • 400g canned tomatoes
  • 50g pine nuts, 50g raisins
  • 50g olives
  • Capers, garlic, chilli
  • Olive oil

Method

  1. Step 1 — Flour and fry cod pieces; drain.
  2. Making — Make tomato sauce with garlic and chilli.
  3. Adding — Add pine nuts, raisins, olives, capers.
  4. Adding — Add cod; simmer 15 min.