Bacalhau à Brás
Lisbon's favourite salt-cod dish — flaked bacalhau, matchstick fried potatoes and soft onions bound with barely set scrambled eggs, then scattered with parsley and black olives.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 400 g salt cod
- 500 g potatoes, cut into fine matchsticks
- 750 ml sunflower oil, for frying
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 onions, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1 bay leaf
- 6 eggs
- 3 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 12 black olives
- to taste black pepper
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 9545 kcal · P 64.6g · C 193.8g · F 976.4g
Estimated from 10 of 11 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Soak the salt cod in cold water in the fridge for 24–48 hours, changing the water three or four times a day, until a flake tastes pleasantly seasoned rather than salty.
- 2Drain, remove the skin and bones and shred the fish finely with your fingers.
- 3Rinse the potato matchsticks and dry them thoroughly in a tea towel. Heat the sunflower oil to 170°C and fry them in batches for 3–4 minutes, until golden and crisp; drain on kitchen paper.
- 4Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and cook the onions, garlic and bay for 10 minutes until soft and golden. Remove the bay leaf.
- 5Add the cod and cook for 3–4 minutes, stirring, until heated through.
- 6Fold in the potatoes, lower the heat and pour in the eggs, lightly beaten with pepper.
- 7Stir gently for 1–2 minutes and take the pan off the heat while the eggs are still creamy — they should coat everything, not set into an omelette.
- 8Stir in most of the parsley, top with the olives and the rest of the parsley and serve at once.
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Questions and answers
How long does Bacalhau à Brás take to make?
About 60 minutes: 30 min prep and 30 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Bacalhau à Brás?
11 ingredients: salt cod, potatoes, sunflower oil, olive oil, onions, garlic cloves, bay leaf, eggs, flat-leaf parsley, black olives, black pepper.
How many servings does this Bacalhau à Brás recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Bacalhau à Brás?
About 2386 kcal, with 16.2 g protein, 48.4 g carbohydrate and 244.1 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Bacalhau à Brás recipe suit?
It is gluten-free and dairy-free.
What cuisine is Bacalhau à Brás?
Bacalhau à Brás comes from Portuguese cuisine.
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