Brazilian Cuisine: Salted cod with potatoes, onions and olives



For the recipe you need:
* Salted cod - 450-700g
* Yellow onion - 1 / 2 pcs.
* Bay leaves - 2 pcs.
* Potatoes - 6 pcs.
* Olive oil - 1 / 3 cup and 2 tablespoons
* Onion - 4 pcs.
* Garlic - 6 cloves
* Dry white wine - 1 cup
* Broth made from shellfish or fish - 2 cups
* Cream - 1.5 cups
* Black olives - 24 pcs.
* Gruyere cheese grated - 1 / 4 cup
* Crumbs - 1 / 4 cup
* Black pepper - 1 / 2 tsp
* Chopped parsley - 2 tbsp

Prepare the salt cod. To do this, rinse the fish, cover with water and refrigerate for several hours. Crack soaked until it has softened to the desired extent. Within 12-24 hours the water should be changed several times. Then the cod being removed from the water, add spices (bay leaf and pepper), again poured water and stew for about 20 minutes.

Cooked cod taken out of the water, separate meat from bones and put on two days in the refrigerator.

Boil potatoes in their skins, peel and cut into cubes. Sauté onion rings in olive oil, then add the garlic.

In a saucepan with a thick bottom to heat the wine up until its volume is not reduced by half. Add fish broth and repeat the procedure evaporation. After all add up to 1 / 3 of cream, so that happened about two cups of liquid.

Warm the oven to 140oS. Pour the liquid into a deep ceramic form and lay a layer of potatoes, then a layer of fish and onion, a layer of olives. Then repeat layers.

In a separate bowl, combine grated cheese, crumbs and pepper. Add 2 st.l olive oil and this mixture of grease dish on top. Bake for 25-30 minutes.