Cooking Vacations Summer Recipes From Positano

Flowers from my garden, view from my terrace, fresh fish in our Cooking Vacations Kitchen, Positano.  Easy summer cooking at Cooking Vacations where we use local, seasonal & organic ingredients.  Turn ordinary fish into delicious bites with this Positano recipe,....

Mamma Marie Lucia’s

Pesce All’Acqua Pazza ~ Fish In ‘Crazy Water’

Serves 4

2 lbs Fresh White Fish, such as Cod, Sea Bream or Sea Bass

Extra virgin first-cold-pressed olive oil

2 cloves Garlic

7 Cherry Tomatoes

Dry white wine

50 g Fresh Parsley, chopped

Salt, to taste

1 red chili pepper

Fillet fish or leave them whole as desired.

In a large pan, add enough olive oil to coast the bottom of the pan, warm oil over low to medium heat.  Add smashed garlic cloves and chili pepper, and sauté until blonde.  Add the washed and cut in half cherry tomatoes.  Remove the garlic.  Add the fish and nestle it in between the tomatoes.  Add parsley.  Add about a half cup of dry white wine, a little more if needed.  Salt and pepper to your tastes.  Cover and cook for about 10 minutes if fillets, or about 20 minutes if whole fish. 

Serve hot with a generous garnish of fresh parsley.