Pescespada Ripieno alla Siciliana

This dish is a specialty of Messina, but you can find it in Palermo and Catania as well. Some versions add provolone cheese to the filling, but I just don’t like it that way. Others add raisins to the filling, and, while I can understand it, I don’t want to do that either. I prefer to cut a pocket in the side of thick pieces of fish fillet and stuff it with filling. Some recipes have you roll pounded strips of fish around the filling, but this seems like extra work to me. Now, if you are re