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How To Make Salt Cod

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How To Make Salt Cod
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Salt Cod Recipe. This popular Spanish and Portuguese dish is easy to make and a versatile alternative to regular cod. Enjoy our Salt Cod recipe. Enlarge Salt Cod Recipe. This popular Spanish and Portuguese dish is easy to make and a versatile alternative to regular cod. Enjoy our Salt Cod recipe.
Preparation Time:
35 minutes
Cooking Time:
23 hours
Total Time:
23 hours 35 minutes

Step 1: Wash the fish

  • 1 piece of salt cod, (spanish: bacalao), the size depending on the amount needed for the recipe
  • plenty of water for soaking
  • 1 bowl, large enough for the fish to fit
  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 strong knife

Step 2: Soak the fish

Place the washed fish in a large bowl skin side-up and cover with water.

Step 3: Refrigerate

Place the bowl in the fridge to soak for 8 hours.

Step 4: Change the water

After about 8 hours remove the fish from the fridge and change the water. Place the fish back in the fridge, and repeat this process another 2 times over the next 16 hours.

Step 5: Finish the dish

Check if the salt cod needs more soaking by bending it. As a general rule, when you cook the cod, it requires only about 24 hours soaking but when making recipes using raw cod soak it for 48 hours, remembering to change the water every 8 hours.
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  1. mascarpim

    it's spelled "bacalhau" and it is not spanish, is portuguese!