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Stocafi

Name: Stocafi
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Monaco
Ingredients: 500g Salt Cod; 1 can Canned tomatoes; 1 Onion; 3 cloves Garlic; 80g (black) Green olives; 150ml White wine; 4 tbsp Olive oil; A pinch Thyme; 1 Bay leaf; 4 Potato; A pinch Black Pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Dried cod slowly stewed with tomato, olives, and white wine — a traditional dish of Monaco.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Stocafi is a traditional Monégasque dish: stockfish (dried cod), brought from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, is soaked and slowly stewed with tomato, onion, garlic, black olives, white wine, and herbs. Long eaten in the port towns of Monaco and Nice, it's served with boiled potatoes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an old house kitchen overlooking Monaco's harbor, dried cod and olives bubble in a pot of red tomato stew.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Salt Cod 500g
Canned tomatoes 1 can
Onion 1
Garlic 3 cloves
Green olives 80g (black)
White wine 150ml
Olive oil 4 tbsp
Thyme A pinch
Bay leaf 1
Potato 4
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the salt cod in water overnight, changing the water several times, and break into large flakes.
Heat olive oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Add the white wine and let it evaporate, then add the canned tomatoes, thyme, and bay leaf and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the cod and peeled, cut potatoes, cover, and simmer on low for 1 hour.
Add the olives, simmer 10 minutes, and season with pepper.

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