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Aljotta
Ingredients:
- 2 Onions - chopped
- 8 garlic cloves
- 3 large ripe tomatoes (peeled and Chopped)
- 1 large spoon tomato paste kunserva
- Olive Oil
- 100 ml white wine
- 6 small Fish (you can use heads and tails of bigger fish)
- 1 lemon
- Cup of rice - Optional
- Fresh mint
- Majoram (merqtux)
- Salt
Method:
Slowly fry the chopped onions in oil.Add the garlic, the mint, the marjoram, the tomatoes and the tomato paste.
Cook slowly for about 5 - 10 minutes
Add the fish, the wine and the water (with some salt added) and cook for 30 minutes.
Towards the end of the cooking time you can add the rice.
The aljotta is not meant to have a thick or heavy consistency but should look more like a fish broth.
Difficulty: Easy
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what amount of water for the aljotta?
calculate 3 to 4 cups