Baked Salt Cod with Peppers and Potatoes

Name: Baked Salt Cod with Peppers and Potatoes (Bacalhau com Batatas)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: juice of 1 lemon; 2 handfuls of chopped parsley; 4 tablespoons black olives; 2 green peppers, sliced; freshly grated black pepper; 3 hard-boiled eggs, sliced; 2 large Spanish onions, sliced; 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 6 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for drizzling; 800 g/1¾ lb dried salt cod, soaked; 2 bay leaves; 3 vine-ripened tomatoes, sliced; 12 large Cyprus potatoes, peeled and quartered

Bacalhau com Batatas

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Eagle Cookbook

By David Eyre

Published 2009

About

This was one of the first dishes I saw being cooked at the Eagle – the smell of the salt cod, peppers, onions and potatoes took me back home to Brazil. It is sometimes called by the Lisboan slang name, bacalhauada. The flavours complement each other really well.

Ingredients

800 g/1¾ lb dried salt cod, soaked
6 tablespoons

Europe
Americas
Portugal
Brazil
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
South America

Method

Put the soaked salt cod in a large saucepan of simmering water and cook gently for 15–20 minutes, until the flesh is beginning to flake. Drain and leave to cool a little – pick out any bones while it is still warm. Toss the fish with a couple of tablespoons of the oil to keep it warm.

Fry the onions in the remaining oil until soft and brown, then add the garlic and green peppers and coo