Dalmatian Salted Anchovy Salad Recipes

CROATIAN ANCHOVY SALAD

Steps:

• Clean the anchovies (remove head and guts).
• Boil the water (use large pot with low rim, so that all anchovies have the same chance) with garlic clove, 2 bay leaves and salt until boils. Add vinegar and remove the pot from fire.
• Add anchovies in that hot water and keep them inside not more than 2 minutes. When meat starts to separate from bones it's done (you have to take them out just before this happens).
• Using hollow spoon remove the anchovies from water and put them in a bowl.
• Before you put them in a bowl, slice the onion into rounds and arrange them to cover the bottom (take also large bowl with low rim).
• Spread rosemary leaves, capers, black pepper berries, bay leaves over onion and than put anchovies over. Pour olive oil over anchovies. Slice lemon into rings and arrange rings to cover anchovies. You can put just some of cooked water over if you want to keep them in refrigerator.
• Cool the salad and serve.
• You can keep the salad in refrigerator up to 4 days.

POTATO ANCHOVY SALAD

Steps:

• Put potatoes in a large saucepan, and cover generously with cold water. Add salt, and bring to a boil. Simmer until tender when pierced with a knife, about 20 minutes. Drain, and leave to cool.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the yolk of the hard-boiled egg and vinegar until smooth. Whisk in the sour cream and oil.
• Finely chop egg white, finely chop anchovies and finely slice 4 scallions. Whisk all into egg yolk mixture.
• Quarter potatoes; add to bowl of dressing. Fold to mix. Transfer to serving dish. Finely chop 2 remaining scallions, and scatter on top. Season with salt and pepper, and serve.

TUNA, OLIVE AND ANCHOVY SALAD

Steps:

• Before starting, remove the anchovies from the oil they come in and marinade in balsamic vinegar for 1hr minimum. Try to remove as much oil as possible. I buy a 100g jar of anchovies in olive oil, drain, and replace the oil with vinegar. Store this in the fridge for on demand de-salted marinated anchovies
• Cook the penne in a pan of boiling water. Go easy on the salt - there'll be enough from the anchovy.
• Whilst the pasta cooks, drain olives if tinned, and cut them in half.
• Trim and peel the carrot, and chop in to a thick julienne - strips 0.5cm (1/4") thick.
• Trim the spring onion, removing as little as possible of the root (white) end, and most of the 'leaf' end. Finely mince this, and the garlic.
• Remove the anchovy from vinegar, and mince very finely.
• Rince the green been and the lettice, and roughly chop.
• When the pasta is al-dente (cook until edible, but firm), add some cold water so the pasta can cool slightly, and drain well.
• Combine all ingredients.
• Stir well and season.
• Enjoy!

DALMATIAN SALTED ANCHOVY SALAD

Steps:

• Clean the anchovies from salt and cut into fillets (skip this if you use canned fish).
• Cut onion across into very thin rounds. Put first onion, cover with fillets and sparkle with oregano (and capers). Pour olive oil and vinegar, mix a bit and wait 30 minutes so fillets and onion soak with oil.
• Serve with a lot of bread and wine. After 2-3 hours you will be very thirsty so prepare a lot of drinking water or "bevanda" (that is half wine half water), usual drink in Dalmatia.