Fish in Crazy Water (PESCE ALL'ACQUA PAZZA)
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Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 12 ingredients
- Optional: 4 slices of day-old or grilled
- 1 1/2 pounds fresh -- ripe tomatoes
- Chop
- 4 cups water
- 3 large garlic cloves -- peeled and sliced thin
- 1 1/2 pounds red snapper -- filleted with its skin left on (1 1/2 to 2)
- Chopped red chili pepper -- 1/8 teaspoon or to taste
- Fish fillets
- Salt
- sourdough bread
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons very finely chopped parsley
Contains
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Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
- Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.
Method
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- 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.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Frying pan
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Saucepan
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Chef's knife
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Cutting board
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Vegetable peeler
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Spatula