Christmas Eve fries

Ingredients

• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Salted cod
• Sardines or anchovies
• Flour
• Olive oil
• Water
• Salt g.b.

Method
Among the various dishes that were prepared for Christmas Eve dinner, the fried foods were particularly eagerly awaited, which the women of the house began to prepare as early as the early afternoon.

They washed, cut and boiled the vegetables that their garden offered in salted water; they pulled them out of the water after the prime vulle, thus keeping them al dente.

They cleaned the sardines or anchovies and deboned them.

They boiled the cod, previously left to soak in plenty of water for a couple of days so that it desalted well.

In an earthenware basin they poured water, flour and salt; they mixed everything with a spoon, forming a slightly thick paste; they dipped the vegetables, anchovies and the rest in it, trying to cover every side of them.

They heated abundant olive oil in a pan; they threw in, a few at a time, the pieces to be fried; they turned them over and, when they had become golden, they took them out with a slotted spoon, placing them on straw paper to absorb the oil. They sprinkled them with a pinch of salt.

Recommended wine
Controguerra D.O.C. white or Cerasuolo D.O.C.