Grand Aioli
- 2 large cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 large eggs
- 2 lemons, 1/2 of one juiced
- 1 1/2 cups extra virgin olive oil, more for drizzling
- 3 tablespoons minced fennel fronds
- Salt
- 24 small fingerling potatoes
- 24 baby carrots not the kind in bags, peeled
- 1/2 pound haricots verts, trimmed
- 1 fennel bulb, trimmed and quartered
- 2 cups dry white wine
- 3 dozen mussels, scrubbed
- 2 1/2 pounds skinless cod or hake fillets
- Nicoise olives
- Turn on a food processor, drop garlic in through feed tube and process until minced.
- Add eggs, then quickly add lemon juice.
- Slowly drizzle in olive oil to make a loose mayonnaise.
- Turn off machine and fold in minced fennel fronds.
- Season with salt.
- Transfer this aioli to a serving dish, cover and refrigerate.
- Place potatoes in a saucepan big enough for all the vegetables; cover with water.
- Over high heat, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.
- Add carrots and cook 3 minutes.
- Add haricots verts and cook 2 minutes more, then add the fennel bulb.
- Cook 5 minutes more.
- Drain.
- Arrange carrots and haricots verts on a large platter.
- Cut potatoes in half vertically and slice fennel.
- Place on platter, leaving room for seafood.
- Bring 1 cup wine to a simmer in a pan large enough to hold seafood in a single layer.
- Add mussels; cover and cook until they open.
- Scoop mussels from pan, leaving liquid.
- Add fish to pan, cutting it in pieces as needed to fit the pan.
- Add enough wine to cover fish, bring to a simmer, cover, cook 5 minutes.
- Set aside and let it cool in pan 10 minutes.
- Drain fish, cut to serving size and arrange on platter.
- Add mussels, in their shells, to platter.
- Cut remaining lemons into wedges and add.
- Scatter olives about.
- Drizzle fish and potatoes with a little oil and season with salt.
- Scoop aioli into a bowl and serve alongside.
garlic, eggs, lemons, extra virgin olive oil, fennel fronds, salt, potatoes, carrots, haricots verts, fennel bulb, white wine, mussels, nicoise olives
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013743 (may not work)