Italian fish recipes
30 Italian fish recipes, each written for this site and each saying what its method turns on.
- Abbacchio, sourced from Italy. Young lamb roasted hard with rosemary and garlic, finished with anchovy melted into the pan juices. Lamb, Fish.
- Acqua Pazza, sourced from Italy. Whole fish poached in a thin broth of water, wine and tomato, which becomes the sauce. Fish.
- Baccalà all'Abruzzese, sourced from Italy. Salt cod stewed in tomato with peppers and olives, the fish added last so it stays whole. Fish.
- Baccalà alla Lucana, sourced from Italy. Salt cod floured and fried, finished with dried sweet peppers crisped in the same oil. Fish.
- Baccalà alla Vicentina, sourced from Italy. Cod cooked in milk and onion for six hours without being stirred once. Fish.
- Baccalà Mantecato, sourced from Italy. Poached cod beaten with oil until it turns white and holds its shape on a spoon. Fish.
- Bagna Càuda, sourced from Italy. Anchovy and garlic melted into warm oil and kept warm at the table, never allowed to fry. Fish.
- Bagnun, sourced from Italy. A thin anchovy and tomato soup poured over hard biscuit, cooked in the time it takes to soften an onion. Fish.
- Bigoli in Salsa, sourced from Italy. Thick wholemeal pasta with a sauce of onions cooked to nothing and anchovies melted into them. Fish.
- Bollito Misto, sourced from Italy. Several cuts boiled separately so each is right, then brought together in one broth. Chicken, Pork, Beef, Veal, Fish.
- Brodetto, sourced from Italy. Mixed fish stewed with vinegar, each kind added in its own time so none of it overcooks. Fish, Shellfish.
- Buridda, sourced from Italy. A fish stew built on dried mushrooms and their soaking water, with pine nuts through it. Fish.
- Cacciatora, sourced from Italy. Chicken browned hard and braised in wine with rosemary, finished with olives rather than tomato. Chicken, Fish.
- Cacciucco, sourced from Italy. A red-wine fish stew with its own broth made from the heads, ladled over garlic toast. Fish, Shellfish.
- Cappon Magro, sourced from Italy. A Genoese pyramid of fish and vegetables built on soaked biscuit, each layer dressed separately. Fish, Shellfish, Egg.
- Crostini, sourced from Italy. Tuscan chicken liver paste on bread toasted dry, not oiled. Chicken, Fish.
- Fritto Misto, sourced from Italy. Mixed seafood floured in semolina and fried in batches, each thing timed on its own. Fish, Shellfish.
- Insalata di Riso, sourced from Italy. Rice rinsed cold to stop it clumping, dressed while slightly warm. Fish, Egg.
- Lampredotto, sourced from Italy. The fourth stomach simmered in broth and served in a roll dipped in its own liquid. Beef, Fish.
- Pasta chi Vrocculi Arriminati, sourced from Italy. Cauliflower mashed into the sauce, with saffron, raisins and pine nuts. Fish.
- Pasta con le Sarde, sourced from Italy. Sardines with wild fennel, raisins and saffron, the pasta cooked in the fennel water. Fish.
- Pasta e ceci, sourced from Italy. Half the chickpeas blended, and the pasta cooked in the soup so its starch thickens it. Fish.
- Pasta Mollicata, sourced from Italy. Toasted breadcrumbs standing in for cheese, with no vegetable in it at all. Fish.
- Sardenaira, sourced from Italy. A Ligurian tray flatbread with anchovies and no cheese at all. Fish.
- Scapece alla Vastese, sourced from Italy. Fried fish layered with saffron breadcrumbs and left to marinate for days. Fish.
- Sfincione, sourced from Italy. A thick spongy Palermo tray pizza topped with breadcrumbs instead of mozzarella. Fish.
- Spaghetti alla Puttanesca, sourced from Italy. A sauce that cooks in the time the pasta takes, with no cheese on it. Fish.
- Spaghetti alla Siracusana, sourced from Italy. Charred and peeled peppers as the body of the sauce, not tomato. Fish.
- Stroncatura, sourced from Italy. A dark rough Calabrian pasta with anchovy, garlic and toasted crumbs. Fish.
- Vitello Tonnato, sourced from Italy. Veal poached and cooled in its own broth, under a tuna and anchovy sauce. Veal, Fish, Egg.
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