Acciugata

Anchovy sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes

    375 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2003

  • About

This sauce is particularly good served warm with boiled meats and boiled vegetables. It can be used as a dressing for raw vegetables and salads as well — in which case serve it at room temperature.

Ingredients

  • 150 g ( oz) salt-packed anchovies, filleted
  • 50 g (

Method

Clean the anchovies following the instructions.

Chop them up finely and put them in a bowl. Chop the capers finely and add them to the anchovies.

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan until it is quite hot. Remove from the heat and quickly stir in the anchovy-caper mix, mashing them into the oil with a wooden spoon to make a rough-textured sauce. Ad