Portuguese kitchen – Gosto Lagos

Recipe of Bacalhau com Grão (Codfish Salad with Chickpeas) by Gosto Lagos

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

Medium eggplant – 1
Extra virgin olive oil – 3-4 tablespoons
Salt – to taste
Portuguese requeijão cheese (you can replace requeijão with ricotta) – 100 gr, at room temperature
Raw walnuts – 3 tablespoons for the filling plus 1 more for the garnish
Garlic – 1 clove
Cilantro – 1/4 cup, finely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper – to taste

Ingredients:

Ingredients

Ingredients

5-6 big prawns with shells
600-700g fish – a mix of white oily fish (such as halibut or swordfish) and white lean fish (such as cod, monkfish, hake, flounder or haddock)
Two big handfuls of clams and mussels, well scrubbed. Please, don’t use any open or damaged ones
A handful of squid rings and cuttlefish (optional)
500g tomatoes, skinned and chopped
2 small bell peppers
3-4 potatoes
1 large sweet potato (optional)
1 onion, finely chopped
3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1-2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1-2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
3-4 bay leaves
Freshly ground pepper, salt
1 teaspoon sweet paprika powder
1 dried chilli pepper, seeded and finely chopped (optional)
200ml dry white wine
400-450ml fish stock
100ml olive oil