Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Make Bacalaítos, or fried codfish fritters, using a GOYA® recipe that will take this incredibly popular Puerto Rican food into your home kitchen. All over the island you'll find these cod fritters sold from small roadside kiosks, and any street fair there will usually feature several stands of crispy Bacalaítos. This is a yummy Bacalaitos recipe–I know you will want to make a batch today!!
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ):
- Take 1 packages boneless cod fish
- Make ready 3 cup all purpose flour
- Take 1 adobo (goya)
- Make ready 1 envelope sazon (goya)
- Prepare 1 tbsp sofrito (use my sofrito recipe)
- Make ready 1 black pepper
- Take 1 tbsp baking powder
- Get 1 corn oil
The recipe uses dry salted cod fish that been boiled or left over night in water removing most of its salt. The cod is shredded, mixed with milk, water or beer with equal parts flour. Bacalaitos (Codfish Fritters) a delicious side dish that can substitute meat or fish in your Dominican meal. Our recipe and video make them easy-to-prepare.
Instructions to make Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ):
- 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
Dry salted saltfish is cod fish that has been preserved by drying after salting. Without the salt, it is most often referred to as stockfish. This is not a spur of the moment fritters, unless you get your cod fish from a seller that sells it frozen and it has been desalted for you. Salt cod does double duty in this fritter topped with piquant cod salsa. There is nothing like some good Puerto Rican street food.
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