Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, salted cod stew. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Salted Cod Stew is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Salted Cod Stew is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook salted cod stew using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Salted Cod Stew:
- Prepare 2 medium onions, finely sliced
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced
- Prepare 50 ml olive oil
- Get 50 ml white wine
- Take 2 tomato, sliced
- Make ready 1/2 Green pepper, sliced
- Make ready 1/2 red pepper, sliced
- Get 1-2 salted cod pieces, previously soaked in water
- Make ready 500 g potatoes, peeled and sliced
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready to taste Ground black pepper
- Get to taste Chilli powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
- Prepare Small handful of fresh parsley or a sprig of oregano
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
Drain the cod and break it into small flakes with a spoon. Missing extra virgin olive oil Another bacalao stew recipe I used calls for a lot of extra virgin olive oil–at least a half cup to be added before simmering the stew. Less oil can be used but the oil adds a rich depth of flavor. 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.
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. Salt cod, or bacalao in Spanish is one of the world's most fascinating foods. So interesting, in fact, that Mark Kurlansky wrote a fantastic book about it that won the prestigious James Beard Award. On my food tours people often ask why we still eat salt cod. Wouldn't it be easier to simply buy the fresh stuff?
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