Simple Way to Prepare Favorite Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters )
- By Gilbert Mendoza
- 30 Jul, 2020
Hello everybody, welcome to my recipe site. Today I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ). This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.
Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) Recipe. Bacalaítos are salt cod pancake-like fritters from Puerto Rico. The recipe uses dry salted cod fish that been boiled or left over night in water removing most of its salt.
You can have Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters )
- It’s 1 packages of boneless cod fish.
- It’s 3 cup of all purpose flour.
- Make ready 1 of adobo (goya).
- Prepare 1 envelope of sazon (goya).
- Prepare 1 tbsp of sofrito (use my sofrito recipe).
- Take 1 of black pepper.
- Take 1 tbsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 of corn oil.
Make Bacalaítos, or fried codfish fritters, using a GOYA® recipe that will take this incredibly popular Puerto Rican food into your home kitchen.Bacalaitos (Codfish Fritters) a delicious side dish that can substitute meat or fish in your Dominican meal.Our recipe and video make them Mixing: Crumble the cod very finely and discard cartilage, bones, and skin.Taste to see how much salt is left.
Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) step by step
- put cod fish in a pot filled with water and boil for 20 minutes.
- drain water from pot and refill again with water put to boil for another 20 minutes.
- this time drain water into a bowl for later use.
- let cod fish cool to room temp.
- in a mixing bowl add your flour and baking powder.
- break up cod fish up cod fish with your fingers as much as u can and mix into your dry ingredients.
- add your sofrito and mix with your hands.
- start to add the broth from your mixture (some people tend to use a lot of that broth water I use some and just add regular water you don't want those fritters to be salty).
- mix until you get a nice pancake batter consistency.
- now u add sazon adobo and black pepper to taste and mix.
- in a frying pan heat up your corn oil to about 375° you want it nice and hot.
- start to pour it batter into the frying pan fry till each side is a golden color flipping over only once.
- put fritters on a paper towel or on a rack so oil can drain off and your fritters remain crispy.
- enjoy.
Remove cooked fish from liquid, shred and set aside to cool. "Bacalaitos are salt cod pancake like codfish fritters from Puerto Rico".If you're Puerto Rican or had the pleasure of visiting the Island or even a community with a deep Puerto Rican heritage, you've most likely have been served bacalaitos Goya at some point.They're flavorful and convenient to make.
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