Baccalà alla Vicentina recipe

This is a typical codfish recipe from the beautiful town of Vicenza in Veneto, it is served in the classic way with polenta

Ingredients

Codfish already cleaned and softened (to serve 6 people you need 1 kg of codfish), flour, onions, parsley, anchovies already cleaned, parmesan cheese, olive oil, butter, hot milk, salt and pepper

Making it

Chop and mix together the onions, parsley, anchovies and cheese.

Place in an earthenware bowl the floured codfish with salt and pepper. Cover it with some of the above mixture, a drop of olive oil and add a few pieces of butter.

Cover again with more codfish and then again with the other ingredients as before to make a second level.

Add the milk to cover all the ingredients and then cook it slowly for about 3 hours and half.

Read also about the codfish mantecato (the Venetian way).

The Ca' 7 Ristorante of the Hotel Villa Ca' Sette in Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, was first opened as a restaurant in 1957. The name has a special meaning: Ca' (short for "casa", or house) and the number 7 pronounced "sette" in Italian. Sette is also the last name of…
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