Brandade – Hot Cod
There are certainly things that if I run into on a menu, I volition almost e’er guild them, together with brandade is ane of those things. This amazing dish from the due south of French Republic tin sack hold upwardly made many unlike ways, but it’s unremarkably some sort of combination of tabular array salt cod, potato, garlic, together with olive oil.
Once made, it tin sack hold upwardly eaten equally is, or turned into a beautifully browned together with bubbly gratin. Actually, forget I said that, equally this should e’er hold upwardly baked together with eaten pipage hot, ideally amongst some homemade crostini.
The biggest (and only) challenge amongst this dish is treatment the tabular array salt cod. It needs to hold upwardly soaked inwards mutual frigidness H2O for a 24-hour interval or ii earlier you lot tin sack operate amongst it. However, depending on which tabular array salt cod you lot use, the fourth dimension this takes tin sack vary. If you’ve never used it before, follow the instructions herein, but possibly cutting off a modest slice ane time it’s soaked, create it inwards a picayune fleck of water, together with exam it for tabular array salt content. It should all the same hold upwardly sort of salty, but non unpleasantly so.
As I refer inwards the video, the concluding production should teach precariously to a greater extent than or less beingness also salty, without going by that point. It’s going to hold upwardly similar to things similar smoked salmon, prosciutto, or salami. This is why you lot should non create whatever salting, including when you lot boil the potatoes, until everything comes together.
This is a nifty recipe for entertaining, since you lot tin sack teach inwards ahead of time, together with bake when you’re gear upwardly to serve. You tin sack purpose ane large shallow dish, or create a smaller size component subdivision similar I did here. Remember everything is cooked; then all you lot postulate to create is oestrus it through, chocolate-brown the top, together with serve. I actually promise you lot give this a endeavour soon. Enjoy!
Ingredients for close 24 snack-sized portions:
- 1 pound skinless tabular array salt cod fillet, soaked inwards mutual frigidness H2O for 24-36 hours, changing H2O 4-5 times
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 springs thyme
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- pinch cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 8 large garlic cloves, peeled, halved
- 1 pound gilt potatoes, cooked until tender amongst garlic
- 1/2 lemon, juiced, or to gustation
- 1/4 loving cup extra-virgin olive crude oil
- pinch of freshly solid put down dark pepper
- 1 tbsp crème fraiche for the top, optional
– Bake at 450 F. for close 20, or until browned