Antonio Carluccio

Pike with Green Sauce

Luccio in Salsa Verde

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild: 120 Fresh Recipes for Wild Food from Land and Sea
Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2001

  • About

The idea for this recipe comes from the Basque region of Spain, where I enjoyed merluza in salsa verde or cod in green sauce. To cook, you will need to use a good amount of olive oil; this imparts flavour as well as cooking the fish.

Ingredients

  • 4 pike steaks of about 200 g (7 oz) each
  • olive oil

Method

Trim the pike steaks. Pour enough olive oil to cover the steaks into a shallow pan just big enough to hold the steaks. Bring the oil up to simmering point, then add the garlic and parsley. Make sure that the oil is not too hot, then add the pike steaks. Cook over a low heat for 15 minutes or until you see little white balls forming in the oil. This is the fish protein coagulating. The oil shoul