İçli Tava

Name: İçli Tava (Anchovy and Rice)
Yield: Serves Six
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: a little more butter, melted; hot water; 2 tbs currants; 1 tsp sugar; salt and pepper; 1 tsp allspice; 1 tsp cinnamon; 125 g (4½ oz) butter; 400 g (14 oz) rice; 2 medium onions, chopped; 1½ kg (3¼ lb) fresh anchovy; 2 tbs pine-nut kernels

Anchovy and Rice

Preparation info

Serves
Six

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Mediterranean Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

About

A Turkish manual for professional fishermen, from which many facts about anchovies may be gleaned, offers the opinion that this is the most delectable as well as the best known of all the anchovy dishes.

Ingredients

1½ kg (3¼ lb) fresh anchovy
400 g (14

Asia
Turkey
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Spicy

Method

Clean, debone and salt the anchovy. Leave it in a cool place. Soak the rice for an hour in warm water to which you have added several teaspoonfuls of salt, then drain it.

Heat the 125 grams of butter in a pan, add the onion and pine-nut kernels, and let the onion brown slightly. Next add th