Porrusalda

Basque Potato and Leek in Salt Cod Broth

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Preparation info
  • Media Ración

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish

Published 2007

  • About

Porrusalda is a dish from the north of Spain and as my family is from the south I grew up only hearing about this dish. I never tried it until I was working in the region. Vanessa and I were on a day trip and we stopped at a little mountain restaurant near Rioja where porrusalda was on the menú de dia. Rising from the sea of pale green soup was a pearly tile of white fish, surrounded by swirls of verdant green and deep red oils.

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