Fish in Crazy Water
From mystic_river1 16 years ago
- 75 minutes to make
- Serves 4
In Italian this is PESCE all'ACQUA PAZZA-a Neopolitan creation. Why eat fish cooked in water? Water is what brings together all the seasoning ingredients:garlic,, parsley, chilli pepper, salt and olive oil and after simmering and getting acquainted with each other they produce a delicious substance, thicker than broth and more vivacious and fresher than any sauce, in which you then cook the fish.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds fresh, ripe tomatoes shopping list
- 4 cups of water shopping list
- 3 large garlic cloves, peeled and sliced very thin shopping list
- 2 tablespoons very finely chopped parsley shopping list
- Chopped red chili pepper, 1/8 teaspoon or to taste shopping list
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- kosher salt shopping list
- A 1 1/2- to 2-pound red snapper, or another suitable fish, filleted with its skin left on shopping list
- Optional: 4 slices of day-old or grilled sourdough or Italian bread. shopping list
How to make it
- Peel the tomatoes raw using a swiveling-blade vegetable peeler, and chop them roughly with all their juice and seeds. The yield should be about 2 cups.
- Choose a saute pan in which the fish fillets can be subsequently fit flat without overlapping. Put in the water, garlic, chopped tomatoes, parsley, chili pepper, olive oil, and salt. Cover the pan, turn the heat to medium, for 45 minutes.
- Uncover the pan, turn up the heat, and boil the liquid until it has been reduced to half its original volume.
- Add the fish, skin facing up. Cook for 2 minutes, then gently turn it over, using two spatulas. Add a little more salt and cook for another 12 minutes or so.
- Serve promptly over the optional bread slice.
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This is so different and sounds delicious! I just love the sauce concept! Thank you for sharing something so unusual and fun to try =D
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bookmarking to use when I can pick the tomatoes from my garden,the ones in the stores are tastless.Thanks for a great post....
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Yeah, this works, got my vote babe.
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