Steps to Cook Tasty Codfish dumplings
- By Eva Chandler
- 08 Jul, 2020
Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day. Today I’m gonna show you a way to make a distinctive dish, Codfish dumplings. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.
Codfish dumplings Recipe. Cod Dumplings with Savoy Cabbage Sauté Recipe. It's a traditional Jamaican breakfast that is often used with other forms of starch such as boiled banana, yam, potatoes, plantain and breadfruit.
You can cook Codfish dumplings using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Codfish dumplings
- It’s 450 g of salted cod, presoaked and salt removed.
- You need bunch of fresh parsley, finely chopped.
- Prepare 450 g of potatoes.
- Prepare 1 of large onion, finely diced.
- You need 3 of garlic cloves, finely diced.
- Make ready 2 of medium eggs, beaten.
- You need to taste of Salt.
In our family, these Puerto Rican dumplings have been with us forever.I remember my grandmother making them for breakfast with eggs or at lunch or dinner with codfish.They are deceptively easy to make, and quite tasty.Mix all the ingredients in a blender, except for the fish.
Codfish dumplings instructions
- To remove the salt from the cod, soak skin side up for 24 hours in cold water changing it 4-6 times during the 24 hours..
- Boil the potatoes whole with skin on in a pot of salted water along with the cod. Drain well once cooked through..
- Peel the potatoes once cool enough to handle. Mash the potatoes well making sure it's lump free..
- Flake the cod with your fingers removing any fish bones and skin. The traditional way of turning the fish into a paste like form would be to put it into a clean cloth and wrapping it tightly in the cloth and then rubbing the cloth using your hand against a surface such as a kitchen counter. This in turn would also remove any excess moisture from the fish..
- Next add the cod, parsley, onions, garlic and eggs to the mashed potatoes and mix everything well..
- Season with salt if needed. Using your hands mix the mixture for a couple of minutes..
- Heat a deep fat frying pan over medium-high with or a pan with enough oil to submerge half the dumpling..
- Using two spoons, mold it into a dumpling then gently drop it into the oil. Fry each side for 1-2 minutes. Repeat until the potatoe mixture is finished. Ensure not to add too many dumplings to the oil at once as you want to give them enough room to fry and not stick to each other..
Alternatively, you can serve the fish with white rice, Japanese sweet potato, and plantain.Chef Frank Terranova is cooking a week of Portuguese recipes.Flat fried buttery dough usually served with cod fish in Jamaica, as a big weekend breakfast, slightly different from the American dumplings.
Cut fish in smaller pieces, and add a little at the time in the blender.Make small dumplings with a teaspoon.If serving the dumplings on their own, bring a pot of salted water (or fish stock) to a boil.Layer the half of each ingredient in the following order: potatoes, cod fish, onions, hard-boiled eggs, capers, garlic, olives, roasted red peppers, and raisins.Place the bay leaf on top, then pour half the tomato sauce and half the olive oil.