Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters )

hd4000    Maret 20, 2020    Comment   

Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ). 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. Remove cooked fish from liquid, shred and set aside to cool.

Chill overnight, it makes for a less salty fish. These are served all over Miami and they are so good! Originally on the Goya Foods web site. You can have Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters )

1. It's 1 packages of boneless cod fish.
2. It's 3 cup of all purpose flour.
3. You need 1 of adobo (goya).
4. You need 1 envelope of sazon (goya).
5. It's 1 tbsp of sofrito (use my sofrito recipe).
6. You need 1 of black pepper.
7. It's 1 tbsp of baking powder.
8. You need 1 of corn oil.

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. Bacalaitos (Codfish Fritters) a delicious side dish that can substitute meat or fish in your Dominican meal.

Bacalaitos ( cod fish fritters ) step by step

1. put cod fish in a pot filled with water and boil for 20 minutes.
2. drain water from pot and refill again with water put to boil for another 20 minutes.
3. this time drain water into a bowl for later use.
4. let cod fish cool to room temp.
5. in a mixing bowl add your flour and baking powder.
6. break up cod fish up cod fish with your fingers as much as u can and mix into your dry ingredients.
7. add your sofrito and mix with your hands.
8. 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).
9. mix until you get a nice pancake batter consistency.
10. now u add sazon adobo and black pepper to taste and mix.
11. in a frying pan heat up your corn oil to about 375° you want it nice and hot.
12. start to pour it batter into the frying pan fry till each side is a golden color flipping over only once.
13. put fritters on a paper towel or on a rack so oil can drain off and your fritters remain crispy.
14. enjoy.

Our recipe and video make them easy-to-prepare. Salt cod does double duty in this fritter topped with piquant cod salsa. 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.