Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, salted cod, my mother's way!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Salted Cod, My Mother's Way! is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Salted Cod, My Mother's Way! is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
The salted cod is a specialty very popular on the tables of Portugal, Spain and Italy. Here the legend and how to prepare before cooking. To prepare a delicious dish with salted cod is indispensable follow properly the procedure to remove the salt.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have salted cod, my mother's way! using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Salted Cod, My Mother's Way!:
- Prepare 2 pieces salted cod
- Get 500 g potatoes
- Get 4 medium, eggs
- Prepare 1 medium onion, diced
- Get 2 garlic cloves, diced
- Prepare 50 ml olive oil
- Get Handful fresh parsley, chopped, plus extra for decorating
- Take to taste Salt
- Take to taste Ground black pepper
Dried and salted cod, sometimes referred to as salt cod or saltfish, is cod which has been preserved by drying after salting. Cod which has been dried without the addition of salt is stockfish. Baccalà is dried cod which has been preserved with salt. I would hazard to say that most people in the US have never tried it.
Instructions to make Salted Cod, My Mother's Way!:
- To remove the salt from the cod, place in cold water with the skin side up 24 hours before. Change the water multiple times.
- Add the cod to a saucepan of cold water. Bring to the boil. As soon as it boils turn the heat off and leave the cod in the saucepan for 15 minutes with the lid on.
- Remove from the water and allow to cool before handling. Using your fingers as you'd be able to feel for any fish bones to remove, gently pass the cod meat through your fingers and flake the meat. Set aside.
- Cook the potatoes in a pot of salted water, drain and allow to cool until they can be handled then peel and dice. Set aside.
- Boil the eggs until fully cooked through. Allow to cool until they can be handled then peel and dice. Set aside.
- In a wok or frying pan, heat the olive oil over a medium heat, then add the onion and garlic and fry for 2-3 minutes or until the onions are soft.
- Add the cod and combine with a wooden spoon.
- Add the potatoes gently stir, carefully not to break the potatoes too much.
- Add the eggs and the parsley and gently mix it all together.
- Check seasoning, add more salt and pepper if needed and sprinkle with parsley. Serve immediately.
Unless, of course, you are of European descent or have an ethnic background where salt cod is normally eaten. Italians use it many ways, but the two main dishes my mother. Salt cod is very popular in Europe, especially France, Italy, Portugal and Spain where amongst many things it is made into the famous dish Cod brandade. My mother-in-law taught me a spicy and vinegary salt cod dish from her Virgin Islands childhood called pickled salt fish (pronounced more like "sow fish"). Most Americans associate salt cod with Italians, but to true devotees, southern Europe from Lisbon to Istanbul is a magical mystery tour, in.
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