Conca d’oro piquillo pepper pocket with soused swordfish and anchovies on broad bean mash

Author: APCI - Associazione Professionale Cuochi Italiani

Ingredients for 4 portions
  1. 300g Roasted Piquillo Peppers
  2. 400g swordfish from the strait of messina
  3. 200g boned anchovies
  4. 2 bunches of shallots
  5. q.s. salt
  6. q.s. extra virgin olive oil from castelvetrano
  7. a few fennel seeds
  8. 1 glass white vinegar
  9. 120g sugar
  10. 1kg broad beans from godrano
Method

  • Wash and carefully dry 8 Demetra piquillo pepper pockets. Cut the swordfish into chunks and put in a large bowl with the anchovies.

  • Add salt, pepper, a drizzle of vinegar and some fennel seeds.

  • Cut the shallots into rings and put in a frying pan with extra virgin olive oil.

  • Soften with the vinegar and caramelise.

  • After lightly marinating the fish, drain and lay on a cloth.

  • Coat in the flour and fry in extra virgin olive oil until good and crunchy.

  • Add the shallots to the fish and stir.

  • Cool until tepid and use to fill the pepper pockets.

to serve

  • Boil the beans until cooked.

  • Remove the skins and squash with a fork. Arrange a bed of bean mash on each plate and place two pockets on each, drizzling with extra virgin olive oil from Castelvetrano.

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