Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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. The cod is shredded, mixed with milk, water or beer with equal parts flour.
Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ):
- Prepare 1 packages boneless cod fish
- Get 3 cup all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 adobo (goya)
- Make ready 1 envelope sazon (goya)
- Make ready 1 tbsp sofrito (use my sofrito recipe)
- Make ready 1 black pepper
- Get 1 tbsp baking powder
- Get 1 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. 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. Take your salted cod and rinse under cold water. Put a pot of water on your stove over high heat.
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
That is how big the pieces should be. We want to be able to feel the cod when biting Into the fritter☺. Codfish fritters or Bacalaitos can be found in various versions throughout the islands and are called stamp-and-go in Jamaica, saltfish accra in Trinidad, and fish cakes in Barbados. They are a mixture of flour, codfish and spices deep fried as either flat cakes or round balls. Bacalaitos (Codfish Fritters) a delicious side dish that can substitute meat or fish in your Dominican meal.
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