Mock Turned-Out Peas
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- peas
- brains, or small birds, or thrushes
- Lucanian sausages (Lucanicae)
- livers (iecinera)
- chicken giblets (gigeria pullorum)
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- olive oil
- headed leek
- green coriander
- pepper and lovage
Instructions
- Cook the peas.
- In a pot combine brains or boned small birds/thrushes, Lucanian sausages, livers, and chicken giblets with liquamen and oil.
- Add bundled headed leek and chopped green coriander and cook with the brains.
- Finish by grinding in pepper, lovage, and liquamen.