What are your favourite salt cod recipes?
October 15, 2022 9:35 AM Subscribe
I suddenly have access to an abundance of salt cod. What shall I make?
Brandade de Morue! Food of the gods.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 9:48 AM on October 15, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by TWinbrook8 at 9:48 AM on October 15, 2022 [2 favorites]
^ note: I haven’t made this exact recipe (which calls for an unreasonable amount of saucepans) (and probably not enough garlic) but I have sampled brandade over the years and it is so, so good.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 9:58 AM on October 15, 2022
posted by TWinbrook8 at 9:58 AM on October 15, 2022
One of my favorites is Finnan Haddie. This is salt cod and a white sauce served over mashed potatoes garnished with sliced hard boiled eggs. It's very pale and bland in color, but SO good! Our family traditionally eats it for Christmas brunch.
I don't have a good recipe I can recommend, but if you're familiar with some basic cooking techniques you can try winging it.
Gently simmer salt cod in milk, just to cover, for about 20 minutes. Remove the fish and reserve it and the milk, separately.
Make a medium-thickness white sauce with flour and butter and using the milk you simmered the salt cod in. Add some ground pepper but NO salt! It will have plenty of salt from the cod-simmered milk.
Make mashed potatoes; again, don't add any salt. Hard boil an egg or two.
Gently stir the flaked salt cod into the white sauce and gently re-warm for just a minute or two. Serve over mashed potatoes and garnish with a couple or few slices of egg.
Mm-mm-mm!
posted by primate moon at 10:50 AM on October 15, 2022 [1 favorite]
I don't have a good recipe I can recommend, but if you're familiar with some basic cooking techniques you can try winging it.
Gently simmer salt cod in milk, just to cover, for about 20 minutes. Remove the fish and reserve it and the milk, separately.
Make a medium-thickness white sauce with flour and butter and using the milk you simmered the salt cod in. Add some ground pepper but NO salt! It will have plenty of salt from the cod-simmered milk.
Make mashed potatoes; again, don't add any salt. Hard boil an egg or two.
Gently stir the flaked salt cod into the white sauce and gently re-warm for just a minute or two. Serve over mashed potatoes and garnish with a couple or few slices of egg.
Mm-mm-mm!
posted by primate moon at 10:50 AM on October 15, 2022 [1 favorite]
Baccalà Mantecato -- similar to brandade, but not quite the same thing. Also delicious.
posted by mumimor at 12:10 PM on October 15, 2022
posted by mumimor at 12:10 PM on October 15, 2022
Bacalhau à Brás comfort cod with scrambleggs.
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:27 PM on October 15, 2022
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:27 PM on October 15, 2022
My mother in law makes “morue à l’agenaise”, recipe below:
- rehydrate and de-salinate the cod with several soaks in water
- cook and cube potatoes, mix with garlic and parsley once they’ve cooled
- arrange potatoes in a ring in a large metal bowl
- put cod and 4ish egg yolks in the middle of the ring of garlicky potatoes
- boil like a half cup of oil or more if you want (olive or sunflower, get it really hot), and then carefully and quickly pour this over the cod and egg yolks
- stir the whole mess together
- voila morue à l’agenaise!
posted by ohio at 1:02 AM on October 16, 2022
- rehydrate and de-salinate the cod with several soaks in water
- cook and cube potatoes, mix with garlic and parsley once they’ve cooled
- arrange potatoes in a ring in a large metal bowl
- put cod and 4ish egg yolks in the middle of the ring of garlicky potatoes
- boil like a half cup of oil or more if you want (olive or sunflower, get it really hot), and then carefully and quickly pour this over the cod and egg yolks
- stir the whole mess together
- voila morue à l’agenaise!
posted by ohio at 1:02 AM on October 16, 2022
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posted by oflinkey at 9:48 AM on October 15, 2022