Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, roasted cod with smashed potatoes. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Roasted Cod with Smashed Potatoes is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Roasted Cod with Smashed Potatoes is something that I have loved my whole life.
Put the cod in a large roasting pan, sprinkle the fillets with the garlic, and then spread with the mashed potatoes. Season generously with salt, pepper, and cayenne on both sides, being careful not to break potatoes up into small pieces. Season the potatoes liberally, spread them evenly and place the pan in the oven.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook roasted cod with smashed potatoes using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Roasted Cod with Smashed Potatoes:
- Get 2 salt cod fillets
- Get 2 Green peppers
- Get 8-10 small potatoes
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take as needed Milk
- Get Ground black pepper
- Take Olive oil
- Get 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
Redistribute the potatoes around the fillets. Arrange potatoes in a single layer, cut side down. How to Make the Best Smashed Potatoes. Choose small potatoes, rather than large.
Steps to make Roasted Cod with Smashed Potatoes:
- To remove the salt from the salted cod. Place in cold water with the skin up for 24 hours. Changing the water every couple of hours.
- Pat dry the cod with kitchen roll to remove any excess water.
- In a bowl soak the cod in milk and a pinch of black pepper. Refrigerate for a few hours.
- Discard the milk and again pat dry the cod with kitchen roll.
- Boil the potatoes whole with skin on in salted water until soft. Then drain well.
- Using the back of a spoon or your fists squash the potatoes until they break.
- Put the potatoes in an oven tray with a good drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of sea salt. Bake until crispy. My potatoes took about 50 minutes or so.
- Put the peppers whole on a tray and roast at the same time as the potatoes. Roast until the outside skin is charred. Allow to cool or run under cold water and then peel the skin and slice the peppers
- Grill the cod on both sides for 4-5 minutes either on a grill pan or on the bbq.
- Lastly in a small frying heat a good amount of olive oil and then gently fry the garlic for less than a minute.
- Plate up the cod, potatoes and roasted peppers then drizzle with the olive oil and garlic.
You can use this technique on potatoes of any size (even Russet potatoes!) but for crispy potatoes, choose potatoes around the size of a golf ball or two. Smaller potatoes are usually available in red or yellow varieties. Place dish on a cookie sheet pan because there will be sauce that escapes and runs down the outside of the casserole dish. Tips to make ultra crispy smashed potatoes. Ultra Crispy Smashed Potatoes are straight forward to make - boil, squish, drizzle, bake - but there are two little tips I've discovered along the way: Let the potatoes steam dry a bit after smashing them.
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