Lampuki Pie

Name: Lampuki Pie
Yield: Serves Five or Six
Cuisine: Malta
Ingredients: 1 lampuka () or 1½ kg (3¼ lb); 2 tbs capers; 2 onions; 8 olives, stoned and chopped; chopped parsley; 6 cooking tomatoes; olive oil; ½ tsp dried mint; 1 cauliflower; short-crust pastry; Flour

Preparation info

Serves
Five or Six

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Mediterranean Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

About

There are various recipes for this Maltese speciality, but the general principle is clear enough. You fry steaks of dolphin fish and incorporate them with vegetables in a pie. The vegetable I suggest is cauliflower.

Ingredients

1 lampuka () or 1½ kg (3¼ lb)
Flour

Europe
Malta
Pastry
Pescatarian
Pie
Mediterranean

Method

Cut and wash the fish. Cut off the head and tail (which can be used separately for a fish soup). Cut the body of the fish into thick steaks or slices. Dip these in seasoned flour and fry them lightly in olive oil.

Now make the sauce as follows. Set the cauliflower to boil. Chop the onions and fry them in olive oil until they are golden brown. Use a fairly large pan for this, since the n