Portuguese Fried Codfish with Purée

Codfish is very traditional in Portugal, so we do a lot of dishes with it! If you ever come to Portugal you can try it on almost every side of the country, in numerous ways!

Ingredients

• 4 Codfish Slices
• 4 Onions
• 1Kg Potatoes
• 1 Green Pepper
• 1 Red Pepper
• 4 Black Olives
• 2 Bay Leaves
• 2 Cups Flour
• 1 Egg Yolk
• 1 tbsp Butter
• Tomato pulp
• Piri-piri
• Oil to Fry
• Olive Oil
• Salt

Recipe

1. In a pan place the potatoes to be cooked with salt.

2. After cooking, remove the water, add the butter, milk, and egg yolk, and beat everything with an electric mixer to form a purée.

3. In a pan, place the four sliced onions to be sautéed with half the green and half the red pepper, diced, adding salt, olive oil, p, piri-piri, bay leaf, and tomato pulp.

4. Pass the four pieces of cod for flour and fry in very hot oil.

5. Next we are going to plate. On a platter, distribute the onion on the first base, followed by the cod slices and finally the puree.

6. To mark the location of the slices, you can add slices of pepper and olives to decorate.

7. Take to the oven for 15min at 180 Celsius degrees | 356 Fahrenheit degrees.