Italian Christmas recipes: trenette pasta with codfish and olives

posted: Thursday 26 November 2009 by Giorgio in: Italian Cuisine and traditional recipes

Ricette primi piatti: trenette con baccalÃ�Â e olive

If you are planning to prepare a salted-codfish dish, don’t forget to soak the fish in water for at least 24 hours. In many parts of Italy, codfish is often one of the main courses at Christmas dinner on December 24th. However if you want to prepare something really delicious here ’s a pasta recipe which features salted codfish and black olives:

300 g trenette pasta, 200g salt codfish; 15 small tomatoes; 1 scallion; black olives; half a glass of white wine, extra virgin oil; salt and pepper.

Preparation: Brown the scallion in a little oil. Throw in the chopped codfish and then pour in the wine. When it has evaporated, add the tomatoes and the stoned olives. Pour in a glass of water and cook for a while. In the meanwhile cook the pasta in slightly salted water, drain and throw in the frying pan. Stir and then serve. If you wish you can also add orange zest.

Photo | Fiore S. Barbato

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