Dish from cod and potatoes The French defend the primacy for the recipe of the branda - dishes from dried cod and potatoes. The Spaniards also consider the brand to be their national dish, and also the Portuguese and the inhabitants of Italian Liguria ... Now it is difficult to say in which country this prescription first appeared, but wherever salted or dried cod was long important in the diet of sailors and on land, this dish is very popular. There are many recipes for the branda: in the form of a mashed potato puree with potatoes in cream and olive oil, in the form of casseroles or toasts with mashed potatoes. Dried or dried cod for the classic brand is soaked for 24 hours, often changing the water to desalinate, and then cooked. Modern rhythms have led to the fact that long soaking cod with a change of water is not always possible, so there were recipes with boiled and smoked cod. It was this version of the cooking that I took, since neither salted nor dried cod is on sale in our country. Connoisseurs of this dish note that the result is almost no different from the classical. The finished branda after baking retains a puree-like consistency, in this case it is placed in plates directly from the mold or spread on toasts. The slightly cooled branda can already be cut into slices like a casserole, and served as a snack.
Ingredients:- Potatoes 1000 g
- Bay leaf 3 pcs.
- Pepper black with peas 5 pcs.
- Salt 1 tbsp. l.
- Parsley fresh 1 bunch
- Cheese hard 100 g
- Onion 2 pcs.
- Garlic 4 denticles
- Cream 100 ml
- Cod 700g
- Thyme (Thyme) fresh 1 sprig
- Step 1 For the preparation of the brandy, we need the following ingredients: potatoes, cod, cream, olive oil, spices, cheese, parsley.
- Step 2 Boil the peeled potatoes in salted water.
- Step 3 Tricks bring to a boil in water with the addition of salt, peppercorns, bay leaf and, preferably, thyme, cook after boiling for 5 minutes and take out on a plate to cool.
- Step 4 Finished potatoes crushed in puree, adding cream.
- Step 5 Brush the onion in olive oil.
- Step 6 Add the onion to the mashed potatoes and stir.
- Step 7 Separate the pulp of cod from the bones and skin, add finely chopped parsley and squeezed through the press garlic. We knead, rubbing it to a puree mass.
- Step 8 Mix the mashed potatoes with the puree from the cod, spread the mixture in a greased baking dish, sprinkle the top with cheese and put in the oven at 200 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
- Step 9 We serve the prepared branda directly in the baking dish as a hot dish or snack. Supplement the brand with a green salad or a salad of fresh vegetables.