Bacalhau à Brás
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Bacalhau à Brás

Comforting flavour, cultural heritage and the kind of cooking that makes a meal feel memorable.

Prep20 mins
Cook15 mins
Serves2
DifficultyMedium
Portuguese Main Dairy-freeGluten-freeHigh proteinNut-free
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The story

Bacalhau à Brás is more than a main: it is a route into Portugal’s Atlantic food story, with salt cod, seafood, olive oil, bread soups and convent sweets. The dish is built around salt cod, seafood, olive oil, garlic, eggs, pastry, rice, coriander and custard, giving it a flavour that feels both practical and deeply connected to its origin. It works especially well for summer seafood, family gatherings and menus with a strong sense of place, and it gives readers a clear way to understand how ingredients, technique and food history meet on the plate. This dish combines shredded salted cod with crispy potatoes, onions, and scrambled eggs, garnished with olives and parsley.

Ingredients

2servings
  • Main
  • 200 gram salted cod400g salted cod
  • 1 piece onions2 onions
  • 1.5 piece eggs3 eggs
  • 100 gram potato sticks200g potato sticks
  • 1 portion OlivesOlives
  • 5 gram ParsleyParsley [Phase 1 metric normalisation: fresh herb amount for serves 2]

Method

  1. Method

    Sauté onions, add cod, stir in potato sticks and eggs. Cook until set. Garnish and serve.

Nutrition

per serving

Calories465
Protein19g
Carbs54g
Fat21g
Fibre4g
Sugar4g
Salt1.4g

Estimated nutrition for Bacalhau à Brás; use as editorial/testing data and refine from exact ingredient weights if needed.

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