Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. 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 well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ):
- Take 1 packages boneless cod fish
- Get 3 cup all purpose flour
- Take 1 adobo (goya)
- Take 1 envelope sazon (goya)
- Make ready 1 tbsp sofrito (use my sofrito recipe)
- Take 1 black pepper
- Get 1 tbsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 corn oil
Remove cooked fish from liquid, shred and set aside to cool. 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. 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.
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
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. Our recipe and video make them easy-to-prepare. Rinse cod under cold water to remove some of the salt. Drain the cod and set aside until it is cool enought to handle.
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