The Malloredus with Cod Sauce are much appreciated in the family. In this recipe, I tried to combine Genoese flavors using cod and pine nuts together with a typical Sardinian shell-shaped pasta with ridges, named after its rounded shape reminiscent of small calves, called “malloreddus” in dialect.
Recipe of 06/18/2016 updated
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 30 Minutes
- Portions: 2 People
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 10.5 oz desalted cod
- 0.7 oz Taggiasca olives
- 0.35 oz salted capers (rinsed)
- 0.7 oz pine nuts
- 2 tbsp dry white wine
- 1 carrot
- 1 shallot
- 3 sprigs parsley
- 2 fillets salted anchovies (desalted)
- 0.35 oz Pecorino Sardo (grated)
- 1.4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 8.8 oz tomato sauce
- 0.42 cup water
- 7 oz pasta (Malloreddus shape)
Tools
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- Kitchen Scale
- Pan
- Wooden Spoon
- Pot
Steps
Pour the oil into the pan, add the chopped flavors, Taggiasca olives, rinsed capers to remove excess salt (as the cod is still a bit salty), pine nuts, anchovies, and let it brown slightly. Wash the cod and remove the skin. Remove the bones, chop the less attractive parts, and leave some larger pieces. Sauté for a few minutes and deglaze with white wine.
Add the tomato sauce thinned with 100 ml of hot water and stir gently to avoid crumbling the fish. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, put the pot with water on the heat, and once it boils, add the malloreddus. Add little salt to the water because the sauce is very flavorful. Once the pasta is cooked (15 minutes), drain it and season with the sauce. Add the grated Pecorino cheese and some chopped parsley leaves.
Notes
What is the difference between cod, stockfish, and haddock? They are all the same fish; haddock is fresh, cod is salted haddock then sun-dried, and stockfish is air-dried haddock without added salt. Both cod and stockfish need to be soaked in cold water for a long time before use, to remove the salt for the former and to restore the original texture for the latter.
