Name: Triglie alla Mosaica (Red Mullet, Jewish Style)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ½ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; ¼ cup chopped celery (optional); 6 tablespoons olive oil; 4 cloves garlic, finely minced; Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; All-purpose flour for coating; 1 pound tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped; 2 pounds small whole fish, cleaned, or 1½ pounds fish fillets

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cucina Ebraica

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

About

You’ve probably seen this classic Jewish recipe for red mullet, more commonly known as triglie alla livornese, on many restaurant menus in Italy. It has long been a part of the cuisine of Livorno, where there was a sizable Jewish community largely established by Spanish and Portuguese Jews after the Inquisition—the same Sephardic Jews who brought tomatoes to Italy. The name of the dish is derived from Moses, and refers to the Mosaic laws of Judaism. The tomato sauce is symbolic of th