Basque-Style Salt Cod in Pil-Pil Sauce

• 450 ml/15 fl oz/scant 2 cups olive oil
• 4

This is a classic salt cod recipe from the Basque country in northern Spain. The toasting of the garlic cloves in the hot olive oil is what gives the dish its unique flavour and aroma. The Basque people will proudly tell you that they accidentally invented bacalao (salted cod) when a group of Basque fishermen sailed from the Bay of Biscay in search of whales and came across a “field” of cod off