This dish is a vacation basic: it is extremely scrumptious, it may be served with rolls to make sandwiches, and it retains for as much as 4 or 5 days, properly lined, within the fridge.
Components for a big platter:
– A big fish, weighing one and a half kilos or extra. (Peceto is a lean, cylindrical, even-grained reduce. In English it is named “spherical eye steak.”)
– Three or 4 giant onions.
– 1/2 kilo of carrots.
– 4 cloves of garlic.
– A desk spoon of entire peppercorns.
– Coarse salt and bay leaf.
– Pitted olives, one cup (non-obligatory).
– Impartial oil, two cups.
– White vinegar (alcoholic), two cups.
– White wine or broth or water, two cups.
Preparation:
– Take away the fats and membrane that covers the fish. Place an onion, two tablespoons of coarse salt and a few bay leaves in a pot with water to cowl. Cook dinner till tender, about an hour to an hour and a half. Let cool in broth.
– In the meantime, peel and thinly slice the onions, carrots and garlic cloves.
– In a saucepan, mix the oil, vinegar and wine or broth or water. Carry to a delicate boil. Add the carrots, onions and garlic and cook dinner for ten minutes. Add the peppercorns.
– Lower the meat into very skinny slices and place within the pickle. Cook dinner for 5 minutes in order that it takes on taste.
– In a big platter, place the meat slices. Cowl with the olives, onions and carrots and the pickling liquid. Cowl and let cool within the fridge.
– This dish is greatest if you happen to depart it within the fridge 24 hours earlier than consuming.
