Name: The Catalan Fisherman’s Sauce: Second Recipe
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 40 grilled almonds; 3 cloves of garlic grilled in wood-fire ash; 1 carquinyoli (a hard dry biscuit); 1 small slice of raw onion; 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika; chopped parsley; 1 little hot red chilli pepper powder; 1 teaspoon of wine vinegar; 3 or 4 tomatoes grilled on the wood fire; olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Honey from a Weed

By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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Here is another version, employed as a sauce for a fish grilled on a wood fire or cooked by oiling it and putting on the top of the hot range (Aga or similar) to ‘roast’ on both sides. This is Peix a la planxa.

Suitable fish: salpa (French saupe, Italian sarpa); mujol (grey mullet); gall</