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Linguine in a baccalà sauce together with a walnut sauce and fried bread

90 - 120 min Moderate

Preparation

  • For the baccalà sauce skin and bone the fillet of baccalà. 
  • Sauté the celery, carrot, onion, chilli peppers, leek, anchovy fillets, the baccalà fishbone and skin and the garlic in extra- virgin olive oil. 
  • Cook for 40 minutes over moderate heat, ensuring that the sauce does not stick to the base of the saucepan. 
  • Allow to cool and blend thoroughly in a blender. 
  • Transfer the puree back to the pan over moderate heat and add the fi llet of baccalà, diced into cubes. 
  • Continue cooking until we ll amalgamated.
  • For the walnut sauceIn a blender, chop up the walnuts together with the soaked and squeezed bread, half a clove of garlic and some freshly ground pepper. 
  • Dilute the mixture with the extra virgin olive oil, pouring it in gradually until it reaches the consistency of a creamy sauce. 
  • Finish off with chopped parsley.
  • For the fried bread.
  • Fry the crumbled bread in a frying pan (preferably non-stick) lightly coated with oil and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. 
  • To finish the dish boil the pasta until al dente, toss with plenty of baccalà sauce and 5 tablespoons of walnut and chopped parsley saucein a frying pan. 

Serve with a sprinkling of fried bread.

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