Stockfish à la Mode des Pêcheurs Niçois (Stockfish in the Style of the Nice Fishermen)

Ingredients

• 1 kilo stockfish
• Oil
• 3 onions
• 5 tomatoes
• 4 cloves garlic
• A pinch of basil
• 1 strong bouquet garni
• Salt and pepper
• Boiling water
• 5 large potatoes
• 230 grammes black olives

Instructions

1. Soak the stockfish for at least 3 days, then scrape it, remove the bone and cut it into pieces.
2. For each kilo of stockfish, cook the chopped onions in oil.
3. Add the tomatoes, the crushed garlic, the basil, the bouquet garni, salt and pepper.
4. Let cook for 20 minutes over a fire that is not too fierce.
5. Add the pieces of stockfish, cover with boiling water, and cook in the oven for 1 hour and a half.
6. Half an hour before serving, add the potatoes cut in thick rounds and the black olives.