William Dalrymple (historian)

Bourdeto

Alternative names	Μπουρδέτο, Μπουργέτο
Place of origin	Greece
Region or state	Corfu
Main ingredients	Fish
Ingredients generally used	Red pepper
Variations	Brudet

Bourdeto (Greek: Μπουρδέτο) is a fish dish from Corfu. It comes from the Venetian word brodetto, which means 'broth'.^[1] It is fish cooked with onion, and red sweet and hot spicy pepper. The best fish for bourdeto is scorpion fish.^[2] One can also find the same dish containing fillet of a bigger kind of fish. In Patras and Western Greece, the dish is also called "bourgeto"/"bourjeto". In Zakynthos meat is used, instead of fish.

• Brudet