Fish & SeafoodDifficulty: medium
Bacalhau à Lagareiro (Cod with Smashed Potatoes)
Portugal's olive-oil cod: baked salt cod over smashed potatoes, drowned in garlic oil with black olives.
20
Prep Time
45
Cook Time
4
Servings
Ingredients
Instructions
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1Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender; smash each lightly with a fist ('a murro').
2Bake the cod with the potatoes in a clay dish at 200°C for 15 minutes.
3Meanwhile heat the olive oil with the sliced garlic until the slices turn pale gold — do not burn.
4Pour the garlic oil over the cod and potatoes, scatter olives and parsley, and return to the oven 10 minutes to marry.
Chef's Tip
- Heat the garlic oil only to pale gold — burnt garlic turns a whole cup of oil bitter.
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- Smash the potatoes with a fist ('a murro') so they crack open and absorb the oil.
- A final 10 minutes in the oven lets the oil, cod and potatoes marry.
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