Salt Cod with Iranian Herbs and Beans

 

Preparation info
  • This is enough for

    4

    people.
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Persia in Peckham

By Sally Butcher

Published 2007

  • About

Salt cod seems to be available in every shop in Peckham, although not in Persepolis. There is some use of smoked and dried fish in Iranian cuisine, so it seemed wasteful not to make the most of this ingredient. Having lived in a fishing port in Spain, I sort of fell into this recipe. I wasn’t sure how to cook bacalao, and so I asked the local restaurateurs; this then is roughly their feedback. Now suitably Iranianized. You can have it as a main course with rice, but I think it makes