Brandade de Morue Recipe

This dish is an excellent Provencal starter course.

Morue is cod, and the brandade de morue is a cod fish-paste. You'll find it at a few restaurants, usually very good, and sometimes available in cans at the grocery store.

We were once taken severly to task for using a can of brandade de morue in this recipe. We agree that you can make your own "real" brandade, but it's a seriously long project.

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Procedure

1. Wash the lettuce and the tomatoes. Cut the lettuce into short strips and quarter the tomatoes.

2. Mix the lettuce with a light amount of olive-oil. Put a bed of lettuce on individual salad plates, add a few black olives and sprinkle on some pine nuts.

3. Slice and toast the bread, 3 or 4 per person.

4. Put a generous helping of the fish paste on the hot-toasted bread, and place on the lettuce. Put the tomato quarters around the toast.

5. Sprinkle some herbes de provence on the fish paste, and serve.