Sicilian Salt Cod and Orange Salad
- Ready In:
- 49hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 2 blood oranges
- 1 lemon (optional)
- 1⁄3 cup black olives, pitted, coarsely chopped
- 1 red onion, small, very thinly sliced
- 1 chili pepper, small, roasted, seeded and sliced (red or green)
- 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 8 ounces salt cod fish
- 1⁄4 teaspoon oregano, crumbled (Greek or Sicilian)
- salad greens (such as escarole or frisee)
directions
- Prepare the salt cod.
- Soak the fish for at least 24 hours or preferably 48 hours, changing the water three to four times each day.
- When the fish has softened and lost its intense saltiness, rinse and drain it.
- Dry the fish as best you can with paper towels.
- Pull the fish into shreds with your hands.
- Prepare the salad.
- Cut off each end of each of the oranges (and the lemon if you are using one).
- Stand each orange on end and using a jig-saw motion slice away the skin and white pith.
- Slice the flesh of the fruit into chunks.
- Combine the chunks of fruit in a bowl with the olives, onion, chili, oil, vinegar, salt cod and oregano.
- Toss to mix well.
- Cover with plastic wrap and set aside, at room temperature, for at least an hour.
- To serve, arrange greens (if you're using them) on a platter and mound the salad on top.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef Kate
Annapolis, 60
<p>I have always loved to cook. When I was little, I cooked with my Grandmother who had endless patience and extraordinary skill as a baker. And I cooked with my Mother, who had a set repertoire, but taught me many basics. Then I spent a summer with a French cousin who opened up a whole new world of cooking. And I grew up in New York City, which meant that I was surrounded by all varieties of wonderful food, from great bagels and white fish to all the wonders of Chinatown and Little Italy, from German to Spanish to Mexican to Puerto Rican to Cuban, not to mention Cuban-Chinese. And my parents loved good food, so I grew up eating things like roasted peppers, anchovies, cheeses, charcuterie, as well as burgers and the like. In my own cooking I try to use organics as much as possible; I never use canned soup or cake mix and, other than a cheese steak if I'm in Philly or pizza by the slice in New York, I don't eat fast food. So, while I think I eat and cook just about everything, I do have friends who think I'm picky--just because the only thing I've ever had from McDonald's is a diet Coke (and maybe a frie or two). I have collected literally hundreds of recipes, clipped from the Times or magazines, copied down from friends, cajoled out of restaurant chefs. Little by little, I am pulling out the ones I've made and loved and posting them here. Maybe someday, every drawer in my apartment won't crammed with recipes. (Of course, I'll always have those shelves crammed with cookbooks.) I'm still amazed and delighted by the friendliness and the incredible knowledge of the people here. 'Zaar has been a wonderful discovery for me.</p>