- Cod with Garlic Sauce. Monastic recipe

Category: Mediterranean Diet, Monastic Recipes of Mount Athos.

Serves: 4 

Preparation time: 1h 

Level: Easy 

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of salted cod
• ½ cup ^eleon^ extra virgin olive oil  $
• 1 bunch of celery
• 4 chopped onions
• 6 peeled cloves of garlic
• 5 potatoes
• 3 spoonfuls of vinegar
• 2 spoonfuls of dill
• Salt and pepper

Preparation:

1. Cut the cod into pieces  remove its fins and tail and desalt it for 24 hours.
2.  Spread the celery and the cod pieces on a pan. 
3. Then add the onion, the olive oil and the water. 
4. Cook it in high temperature until the sauce gets curdy. 
5. Before the sauce gets curdy we get 2 ½ cups of the juice which will be useful for the garlic sauce. 
6. Clean and boil the potatoes and then blend them.
7. Melt the garlic in a mortar. 
8. Mix the puree with the garlic, the salt and pepper, the vinegar, the dill and the juice you got from the fish until it is homogenized. 
9. Get  the pan off the stovetop, pour the garlic sauce on the fish and shake the pan well.

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