Pesce Spada sulla Brace alla Pantesca Recipe | Epicurious

Pesce Spada sulla Brace alla Pantesca Recipe | Epicurious

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Daughter-of-the-wind is her name in Arabic—Bent el-Rhia—the gorgeous island of Pantelleria sits seventy kilometers from Tunisia in the Egadian Archipelago. She is full of sea caves and strange,...

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt, plus additional as needed
  • 1 teaspoon freshly cracked pepper
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 3 pounds swordfish, cut into 1/3- to 1/2-inch steaks
  • 2 fat cloves garlic, peeled, crushed, and minced
  • 3 large yellow onions, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 1 1/2 cups moscato di Pantelleria
  • 1 pound green tomatoes, finely diced
  • 1 pound very ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and finely diced
  • 1/2 cup dark raisins, plumped in warm water
  • 1/2 cup capers, preserved under salt—capperi di Pantelleria—rinsed

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