Fresh Cod with Aïoli

Preparation info
  • For

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Poor Cook: Fabulous food for next to nothing

By Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran

Published 1971

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Ingredients

  • 2-3 lbs centre cut of cod (must be fresh)
  • 12 egg-sized potatoes, preferably new, washed but not peeled

Method

Boil the ingredients for the court-bouillon together for 25 minutes and allow to cool to blood heat. Add two teaspoons of salt. Cook the cod in this by simmering for ten minutes to a pound. Boil or steam the potatoes and other vegetables separately, until just done (avoid overdoing them).

Serve everything on a large dish, each kind of vegetable and the eggs in separate groups, the fish