Pudim de Peixe com Tres Molhos

Name: Pudim de Peixe com Tres Molhos (Fish pudding with three sauces)
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: cooked fish, flaked, 350 g (¾ lb); salt and pepper; salt and pepper; a medium onion, chopped; vegetable oil, 3 tbs; eggs, 2, separated; milk-and-water, mixed, 1¾ cup; bread, 150 g (5 oz); white wine, 150 ml (¼ pint); tomato sauce, ½ cup; mayonnaise, ½ cup; a little butter; white sauce, ½ cup

Fish pudding with three sauces

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

About

Fish puddings are popular in Portugal. This one, from an old family recipe of Maria Isabel Raposo of Ribatejo, looks dramatic and tastes delicious.

Ingredients

cooked fish, flaked, 350 g (¾ lb)
vegetable oil, 3 tbs

Europe
Portugal
Ribatejo
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Heat the oil with the onion, and cook until golden. Add the fish, salt, pepper and wine and cook for 10 minutes over a gentle heat, stirring all the time. Meanwhile, soak the bread in the milk and water, add the egg yolks and mix well. Then add the fish mixture and beat all together for 10 minutes (or use a blender) before folding in the egg whites, which have been beaten stiff. Pour the mixtur