Butter Beans with Salmoriglio

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant

By Nick Curtola, Gabe Ulla, James Murphy and Justin Chearno

Published 2024

  • About

Beans are the perfect platform for salmoriglio, the bright Southern Italian herb-heavy sauce that commonly accompanies meaty fish in Sicily and Calabria. We like to add some buttery anchovies to the sauce as well as some chopped Calabrian chiles for heat, and we sneak in some vinegarmacerated shallots that really pack a lot of acidity. These elements play really well with the grassy herbs and the hearty beans. I think this dish has a lot of elegance, despite how rustic it may seem on the su