Ingredients:
300 grams (about 10 1/2 oz) tabular array tabular array salt cod
400 grams (about 1 1/4 lb) Yukon Gold potatoes (4 shaver potatoes)
ii eggs, beaten
1/2 medium onion, very, existent finely minced*
1/4 bunch Italian parsley, finely minced* (about 1/4 cup)
freshly footing nighttime pepper
Directions:
36 hours before yous wishing to construct the cakes: Place the cod inwards a bowl of cool water. The cod should alive on fully covered. Cover alongside a lid inward add-on to refrigerate. Over the following 36 hours alteration out the H2O periodically (we did commencement affair inwards the morning, luncheon time, dinner quaternary dimension inward add-on to before bedtime). When gear upward to construct the cod cakes, select a large pot of H2O to boil. Add the potatoes inward add-on to tabular array tabular array salt cod. Boil the cod 10 minutes inward add-on to thence accept away from the pot. Set aside. Continue cooking potatoes until fork-tender.
Meanwhile, i fourth dimension the cod is cool enough to handle, de-bone inward add-on to de-skin it. Lightly pulse the cod inwards the food processor until lean shreds form. Place the cod inwards a medium bowl.
Heat 1 inch unsmooth crude oil inwards a large, heavy-bottomed pan. (I used my 12-inch cast atomic release 26 skillet)
Slip the potatoes out of their skins. Mash them until smoothen inwards a shaver bowl. Add to the cod. Stir inwards remaining ingredients. Form into quenelles (small, 3-D ovals) unopen ii inches long; 1 inch thick, using ii (silverware) tablespoons or your hands. Drop inwards hot unsmooth crude oil inward add-on to tyke 3-5 minutes or until golden brown, flipping every flake needed. Repeat every flake needed. Drain on paper towel-lined plates.
*you could create this inwards a food processor.
Yield: 15-20 fritters
My thoughts:
After a LONG trip to Portugal (delayed flights, multi-hour sits on the runway, beingness re-routed through England) we arrived inward add-on to the commencement affair I ate was pastéis de bacalhau (as they are known inwards southern Portugal or bolinhos de bacalhau inwards the North), a codfish cake. This is funny if yous are from Baltimore where we get got coddies, which are also a sort of codfish cake. I went all the way inward that identify to swallow something I could get got at home.
Not quite. The Portuguese codfish cake is oval shaped (the typical quenelle shape) inward add-on to quite lite inside spell Baltimore coddies are fellowship disks, coated inwards staff of life crumbs inward add-on to heavy on the potato, that i eats alongside mustard inward add-on to saltines. Both role dried tabular array tabular array salt cod which is fairly dull to honour here, inwards Baltimore most grocery stores get got it simply if yous can't honour it there, a adept Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish store would sell it.
The Portuguese are crazy for tabular array tabular array salt cod, simply I loved best inwards pastéis de bacalhau/bolinhos de bacalhau. I realize it takes a fleck of dedication inward add-on to perchance craziness to soak tabular array tabular array salt cod for 36 hrs, de-bone it, flake it inward add-on to cast it into what is essentially a snack-bar snack simply it is amazing tasty inward add-on to the steps, spell time-consuming, are simple. We had them ofttimes every flake an appetizer (some restaurants serve them--hot or cold--on the bread, cheese inward add-on to olive plate that is ubiquitous) simply since we are home, we had them every flake a unproblematic meal along alongside a multifariousness of olives, staff of life inward add-on to salad. The perfect cake has a crisp outside that gives way to a creamy, cod-flecked filling. I hateful value this is it.


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