Recipe Details

Bacalao a la Vizcaína (Christmas Salt Cod)

Salt cod soaked for two days, simmered with tomatoes, olives, capers, roasted peppers, and potatoes. A Mexican Christmas Eve tradition inherited from Spanish colonial cooking.

Prep Time

2 days (includes inactive time)

Category

Seafood

Ingredients

10

Steps

7

Recipe and Instructions

1 kgdried salt cod (bacalao)
6Roma tomatoes
2white onions, roughly chopped
6garlic cloves
3red bell peppers, roasted, peeled, and sliced
1/2 cupgreen olives, pitted and halved
3 tbspcapers, drained
1/2 cupraisins
4medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
1/2 cupextra-virgin olive oil

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