Scabescio Appetizer of Moneglia
The dialectal denomination of this appetizer, typical of Moneglia, comes from the typical Genoa dialect wording “mettere a scabescio”, i.e. the way to prepare certain fish, such as mackerel, anchovies, eels.
Ingredients
1/2 kg of carpione fish
100 g of flour
1 small glass of vinegar
seed oil for frying
2 cloves of garlic
1 lemon
1 small onion
1 twig of sage
Preparation
Flour and fry the fish. Then, marinate the fried fish with vinegar, adding cloves of garlic, onion slices, lemon slices and sage tops.
After an hour from the start of the marinade, present the fish on a serving dish, pouring the liquid and the ingredients used for marinating.
