Valentina Harris

Acqua Pazza

Crazy Water

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

  • About

On the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the fishermen call any dish that is cooked in a lot of water ‘all’acqua pazza’ - ‘crazy water’. Nobody really knows why, but the name has stuck, and cooking this way with lots of intense flavourings keeps the delicious taste of the fish intact.

Ingredients

  • 75 ml/5 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 kg/2 ¼

Method

  1. Pour 1.5 litres/2 ½ pints/6 ¼ cups cold water into a large pan. Add the olive oil, toma

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