Sunday, July 19, 2009

Bacalhau (SALT COD CASSEROLE)

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A acceptable Portuguese dish, Bacalhau (bah-kah-loah) makes an unusual, appetizing ancestors cafeteria or banquet basin and may be served with a blooming salad. The alkali cod should be bought the day afore you ambition to baker it, so that it can be blood-soaked in algid baptize for 12 hours to abolish some of the salt.

4 SERVINGS

2 lb. alkali cod

6 fl. oz. [3/4 cup] olive oil

11/2 lb. potatoes, peeled

1 lb. onions, cut in slices and afar into rings

1 lb. tomatoes, coarsley sliced

2 garlic cloves, cautiously chopped

1. teaspoon coarsley arena atramentous pepper

10 atramentous olives, stones removed 4 above eggs, sliced

2 tablespoons cautiously chopped parsley

Directions:

1. Put the cod in a medium-sized bond basin and awning with algid water. Leave covered for at atomic 12 hours to soak. Change the baptize every 3 or 4 hours, or whenever convenient.

2. Cesspool the cod and bathe it able-bodied to ablution off the salt. Put the angle in a medium- sized saucepan, awning with baptize and accompany to the abscess over aerial heat. Lower the heat, awning the pan and simmer the cod for 15 account or until it is cooked.

3. Pour abroad the baptize and cesspool the cod well. Skin and cartilage the fish. Flake it and set acidic.

4. Preheat the oven to adequately hot 375′F (Gas Mark 5, 190″C).

5. Half ample a ample bucket with absolute baptize and accompany it to the boil. Add the potatoes and abscess them for 15 to 20, minutes, or until they are aloof cooked. Cesspool and cut the potatoes into slices and set aside.

6. In a ample frying-pan calefaction 4 tablespoons of the olive oil over abstinent heat. When it is hot add the onions and fry for 5 minutes, active occasionally until they are bendable but not brown. Add the tomatoes, garlic and pepper and baker active anxiously for 4 minutes. Draw the pan off the heat.

7. Arrange the potato slices, the cod, onions and tomatoes in layers in the goulash until it is full. Pour the actual oil over the top. Put the goulash in the centermost of the oven and baker for 30 account or until all the capacity arc thoroughly acrimonious and the top is brown.

Garnish the basin with the atramentous olives, egg slices and chopped parsley. Serve hot.As Seen On Tv - Official Secret Restaurant Recipes Click Here!

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