Baccal? recipes portuguese: 59 photos
Baccalà al forno con patate (Oven-Roasted Salt Cod with
FAQ
Stoccafisso and baccalà are popular all over Italy, from north to south. Baccala`is cooked all over Sicily, but stoccafisso is particularly popular in Messina (n0rth-eastern corner of Sicily). Although at times stoccafisso and baccalà are used interchangeably in recipes, they are different.
Lutefisk is a form of stockfish. However, unlike the clipfish in bacalao, lutefisk goes through a longer, saltless drying process. That means that instead of 2 days it takes to reconstitute clipfish stockfish takes 11. But there there's still one more transformation, the piece de resistance.
Baccalà is the name for cod that has been cured, or preserved, with salt.
As meat was expensive and supplying fresh fish to the interior of mainland Portugal was too complicated, salted cod was an easily accessible and cheap alternative in the diet of the majority of the population. Only later does salted cod become part of the culinary habits of the middle and upper classes.
(noun) It's an insult used to address an incompetent and stupid person. È un baccalà, non è buono a niente! He is a salted codfish, a good-for-nothing!