Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, salted cod stew. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Traditional bacalhoada or bacalao, a Portuguese salt cod stew made with salt cod, potatoes, onions, hard boiled eggs, olives, and lots of olive oil. Photography Credit: Elise Bauer The first time my Brazilian friend and fellow food blogger Fernanda mentioned wanting to make a Portuguese salt cod stew (aka Bacalao or Bacalhoada), I was skeptical. Follow the instructions on the package. Soaking rehydrates the fish and washes away the salinity.
Salted Cod Stew is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Salted Cod Stew is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have salted cod stew using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Salted Cod Stew:
- Make ready 2 medium onions, finely sliced
- Get 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced
- Make ready 50 ml olive oil
- Get 50 ml white wine
- Get 2 tomato, sliced
- Get 1/2 Green pepper, sliced
- Get 1/2 red pepper, sliced
- Make ready 1-2 salted cod pieces, previously soaked in water
- Make ready 500 g potatoes, peeled and sliced
- Get to taste Salt
- Get to taste Ground black pepper
- Make ready to taste Chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
- Get Small handful of fresh parsley or a sprig of oregano
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
The term 'salted cod' has become a generic term for salted white fish. Pollock is less expensive comes in convenient boned filets and works fine for this recipe. This way, the fish will rehydrate and the saltiness will be removed before cooking. Baccalà is salt cod (codfish that has been preserved by packing in salt and drying) sold by the slab, an unlikely food to get excited over.
Instructions to make Salted Cod Stew:
- Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over a medium heat and fry the onions, garlic and bay leaf for a few minutes until soft and translucent.
- Next add the wine and as soon as it starts to simmer add the tomato, potatoes and peppers. Allow to cook for 5-10 minutes
- Cut the cod pieces into smaller pieces and add to the saucepan, sprinkle with salt if needed, paprika and black pepper.
- Add the parsley or oregano and just enough water to the top of the potatoes. Cover with a lid. Turn the heat down and stew for 30-35 minutes. Stir the stew occasionally until cooked.
This way, the fish will rehydrate and the saltiness will be removed before cooking. Baccalà is salt cod (codfish that has been preserved by packing in salt and drying) sold by the slab, an unlikely food to get excited over. Indeed, for much of its history, nobody did; it was cheap and kept very well, which made it an ideal food for the poor, and for others too, on Fridays (when eating meat was forbidden) and no fresh fish was available. It comes from the Atlantic, particularly along the Newfoundland banks and the coasts of Nova Scotia and New England. There the cod is cleaned, salted, and sometimes brined and dried.
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