Bacalhau à Brás (Portuguese codfish “Brás” style)

Probably the most popular Portuguese codfish recipe, this is definitely is one of the tastiest ways to try codfish

They say the codfish brás style recipe started off on a traditional Portuguese restaurant in Lisbon, when the owner had to create a cod dish to serve to his clients, but had little more than the cod itself!

Ingredients

(serves 4)
400 gr of Codfish
2 big potatoes
3 medium onions
4 garlic cloves
Black olives
Olive oil
4 eggs
Parsley
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste

Instructions:

• Cook the cod in water for about 15 minutes, let it cool down, and flake it, getting rid of skin and fishbones.
• Peel your potatoes and soak them for at least 30 minutes. After that grate them (use the bigger sized end). Wash them again, and dry them carefully with some cloth (they must be as dry as possible).
• Turn on the fryer at 150 Celsius (302 F) and fry the grated potatoes at small quantities. After that reserve.

• Peel the onions and garlic. Slice the onions, and chop the garlic cloves.
• Add some olive oil to a frying pan and sauté the onions at a low temperature. After the onions start to golden up, add the garlic and the bay leaf and mix.
• Mix 3 yolks with one full egg and whisk them. Reserve
• After 5 minutes add the flaked codfish to the frying pan, and involve everything together. At this point you can remove the bay leaf.
• Add 2/3 of the potatoes and let them soften down with medium heat.
• Take the pan off the heat and add the whisked eggs to the mixture along with the rest of the potatoes and mix everything together.
• Plate with fresh chopped parsley and black olives.

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