If there’s one Portuguese ingredient familiar to all, it’s probably salt cod. And if there’s one Portuguese salt cod dish that’s best known, it’s likelybacalhau à Brás. Why has this particular dish – salt cod scrambled with eggs, onions and matchstick potatoes – rise...
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taking pictures of Moorish style doors, old azulejos tiles and getting some delicious chick peas stew with boiledbacalhaufish in a local restaurant after you climb up to the beautiful Santiago church.
Since the advent of refrigeration and better transport, there’s no storage imperative to salt fish. But try telling that to the Portuguese, who have bacalhau so firmly entrenched in their culinary repertoire there’s no turning back. Soaking in water renders the stiff, dried fish soft, palatab...