Insalata di Baccalà e Carciofi

Name: Insalata di Baccalà e Carciofi
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 8 tiny artichokes, preferably the purple-lipped variety, or 4 small, very young artichokes, several inches of their stems still intact; 1 1-pound fillet of baccalà, skinless and boneless; 1 cup whole milk; Juice of 1 lemon; 1 small head red lettuce, radicchio or red oak leaf, washed, spun dry, and coarsely shredded; 4 ounces large green Sicilian or Greek olives, crushed lightly with a mallet, stones removed, the flesh coarsely chopped; 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil; 2 fat cloves garlic, peeled, crushed, and finely minced; 1 small, dried red chile pepper, crushed, or 1/3 to 1/2 teaspoon dried chile flakes; 1 1/2 tablespoons good red wine vinegar; Fine sea salt

January 24, 2012

Insalata di Pesce Dove il Mare Non C’è (A Salad of Fish in a Place where there is no Sea). Though the Teramani, in truth, live not so far from the sea, their cuisine is one of the interior, of the highlands, with sea fish playing an insignificant part. And so when we were served this divine little salad in a backstreet osteria in Teramo, it proved a light, breezy surprise for an early spring lunch. When we asked the old chef why he had made such an unexpected dish, he answered that sometimes, even in a place where there is no sea, one can have a desire to eat some good, bracing, and briny-tasting fish.

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