Skewered Sardines

Skewered sardines are an authentic Lastovo dish. You will need: large sardine salt wooden skewer Preparation: Clean the sardines, remove the heads and the insides. Salt the cleaned fish and skewer them on the wooden skewer, then place to be cooked over the prepared embers. The sardines will cook well and won’t fall into the embers if you skewer them …

Oyster Soup

Serves: 5 persons – Oysters 15 pcs – Oil (olive) 0,4 dl – Flour 5 dag – Fish stock 1,25 l – Cream (cooking) 1 dl – Yolk 1 pcs – Butter 2,5 dag – Parsley (leaves) 2 dag – Nutmeg 0,02 dag – Lemon 5 dag – Pepper (white) 0,05 dag – Salt 1,5 dag Preparation: Put the flesh …

Neretva Eel and Frog Stew

Serves 4 : 1 kg eels 18 frog pieces 0.5 kg onion tomato paste bay leaf, salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, 2 hot peppers Add 3 tablespoons of blended or olive oil to a pot with a thick bottom. When heated, add 0.5 kg of finely chopped onion, 3 bay leaves and several hot Neretva peppers. Sautee well. Add 2 tablespoons …

Marinated Tuna fish

tuna fish 80 dag flour 6 dag olive oil 1 dl onion 15 dag wine vinegar 0,4 dl garlic 2,5 dag rosemary 3 dag parsey (leaves) 2 dag laurel leaves 0,5 dag sugar 0,5 dag lemon 8 dag olives (black) 10 dag pepper 0,1 dag salt 2,5 dag Preparation: Slice the tuna fish, salt it and rollthe slices in flour. …

Lemon Oysters

Oysters, from the clean sea of Mali Ston, are a true delicacy for any food enthusiast. Enjoy fresh, raw oysters sprinkled with just a few drops of lemon. Preparation: Open the oysters using a special knife and separate the two outer shells. Use the deeper shells as platters and place the oyster meat and juice into the middle of each. …

Codfish

‘Poor man’s food’ of previous times has now become a delicacy. We haven’t invented anything new! Our nanas and grannies were able to feed and satisfy a big family with a little codfish and only few kilos of potato. The value of cod is not to be questioned. I remember my earliest childhood and the obligatory daily spoonful of codfish …

Black Risotto

Serves 6: 0.5 kg fresh cuttlefish with black ink 0.5 kg various shellfish 3 tablespoons chopped parsley 3 small garlic cloves pepper 3 tablespoons tomato paste 0.15 L olive oil 0.1 L white wine fish stock 0.40 kg rice Clean the cuttlefish and squid (leave the ink sac), chop into pieces and sauté on oil until tender. Add garlic, parsley, …