Seppie in Zimino

Stewed Cuttlefish with Greens

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

  • About

The original Ligurian term zemin has been changed in Italian to zimino. It is thought that the word derives from the Turkish semin and the Arabic saminun. Its original significance was a dish cooked with greens, but in Liguria a zimino might also be cooked with chickpeas or, for that matter, other legumes and vegetables. But the idea of slowcooked vegetables with the possible addition of meat or seafood has endured. Traditionally this dish is made with