Recipe "Bacalhau com Natas" - Gratinated Codfish
If you like Portuguese cuisine, you have to learn this recipe, to be part of your repertoire. With a delicious brown gratinated top and a creamy and tasty inside "Bacalhau com Natas" brings you a piece of beautiful Portugal to your table.
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Equipment
- oven form
- pot
- kitchen paper
Ingredients
- 1 kg potatoes for frying
- 4 loins codfish soaked or half cured
- 3 onions white
- 5 gloves garlic
- 700 ml milk
- 200 ml cream
- 200 g mozzarella cheese grated
- 50 g butter
- 50 g flour
- 100 ml olive oil
- 750 ml sunflower seed oil for frying
- 2 bay leaves
- to taste nutmeg
- to taste black pepper ground
- to taste salt
Instructions
- Place the cod in a pan with the milk, the cream, the bay leaves and one crushed garlic clove. Let it come to a boil, lower the heat and cook for 5 minutes.
- Cut the onions into julienne (thin stripes), chop the garlic and place with the olive oil in a saucepan over low heat. Season with salt (so the onion leaves water and fries slowly). Let it fry slowly on the side while preparing the other ingredients and stir occasionally until the onion turns yellow tanned. This process is very important and will give a lot of flavor.
- Remove the cod from the milk and let it cool. Remove the skin and the fish bones and part in big shreds. Save the milk mixture to make the béchamel afterwards.
- Preheat the oven to 200º C.
- Peel the potatoes and cut into small cubes (about 1cm x 1cm). Fry them in sunflower seed oil (at a temperature of about 180 ° C) until the potato cubes are very golden and brown. Take the potato cubes out of the oil and dry them on kitchen paper.
- Now we use the milk mixture where we cooked the cod to make a béchamel sauce. In a saucepan, let the butter melt over low heat and add the flour. Mix well until it forms a homogeneous paste and add the milk mixture. Season to taste with salt, black pepper and nutmeg. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat until it thickens and doesn't taste like flour anymore.
- Now add all the ingredients (the onions, the fried potato cubes, the cod chunks and the béchamel sauce) and fold in everything well.
- Spread the cod mixture well in a tray and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
- Place the cod with cream in the oven to gratinate for 10 to 15 minutes until the top is golden brown.
