Salt-Cured Seafood Recipes - Recipes for Salted Fish and Seafood

Fennel-Cured Salmon
A simple recipe for a delicious salmon cured with salt, sugar and fennel that is fantastic served over crackers or bread.

Spanish Salt Cod, Marinated and Fried
A recipe for Soldaditos de Pavia, or Pavian Soldiers, a Spanish salt cod recipe where the bacalao is marinated, fried and served with garlic and paprika.

Stewed Salt Cod Amalfi
A recipe for salt cod stewed with tomatoes, chickpeas and white wine, inspired by Italian seafood from the Amalfi Coast.

Sicilian Salt Cod Fritters
A recipe for Sicilian-style salt cod fritters, which make an excellent appetizer or snack. Look for baccala in ethnic markets.

Italian Salt Cod with Tomatoes
Baccala, or salt cod, is a staple in many cuisines, none more than Italian; this dish is from Florence. Serve it with chickpeas and a little hot pepper if you like.

Sardinian Pasta with Cured Fish Roe: Bottarga con Fregola
A Sardinian recipe for pasta with dried and cured fish roe, called bottarga. Bottarga is used as a condiment in this recipe that uses the traditional Sardinian pasta known as fregola.

How to Make Bottarga, or Salt-Cured Fish Roe
How to make salted fish roe, which is called bottarga in Italy. This bottarga recipe will make an excellent condiment to all sorts of seafood dishes, and can be made with shad, mullet, herring or any other edible roe.

Fried Salt Cod Balls I: Scandinavian Style
Nearly every culture that eats salt cod makes little fried fritters out of them. Here is a Scandinavian version.

Making Your Own Boquerones, or Marinated White Anchovies
Instructions on how to make your own marinated white anchovies at home. These cured anchovies are called boquerones in Spain and gavros in Greece. Here's how to cure your own anchovies.

Salt-Curing Anchovies the Ligurian Way
How to salt-cure anchovies the way they do in the Italian region of Liguria.