This classic Spanish-inspired dish is all about simplicity. Sweet Goolwa PipiCo Fresh Pipis are cooked with garlic, chilli, olive oil and salted cod to create a rich, silky sauce that’s perfect for mopping up with crusty bread.

  • Prep10 minutes
  • Cook10 minutes
  • Total20 minutes
  • Serves6

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Goolwa PipiCo Fresh Pipis
  • 100 g cod, diced and heavily salted for 5 minutes, then rinsed and patted dry (or 100 g soaked salt cod)
  • 6 garlic cloves, finely diced
  • ½ teaspoon Espelette pepper, or good-quality dried chilli
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 handful flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • Crusty bread, to serve

Method

  1. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
  2. Add the garlic and cook until it begins to turn lightly golden. Stir in the Espelette pepper (or dried chilli), parsley and cod, gently breaking the cod apart as it cooks.
  3. Add the Goolwa Pipi Co Fresh Pipis and stir to coat in the flavoured oil. Increase the heat to high, cover with a tight-fitting lid and cook for about 4 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally until the pipis have opened.
  4. Remove the pan from the heat. Add the lemon juice and gently shake the pan to emulsify the cooking juices with the olive oil into a silky sauce.
  5. Serve immediately with plenty of crusty bread to soak up the sauce.

Cook’s Tip: Shaking the pan rather than stirring helps emulsify the olive oil and natural pipi cooking juices into the traditional silky Pil Pil sauce. Serve immediately while the pipis are hot and tender.