Dalmatian Cooked Stockfish Bakalar Na Lesho Food

DALMATIAN COOKED STOCKFISH (BAKALAR NA LESHO)

Steps:

• Soak stockfish three days in cold water in cold place (I would suggest somewhere outside because it stinks, but be careful not to freeze it).
• When softens, remove skin and bones and cut it into 5 to 10 cm pieces.
• Peal potato and cut it into round pieces like for chips but thicker (0,5 cm).
• Put potato into cold water, salt it a bit and cook just until boils, cut the heat and leave potato in the water (you will use that water later).
• During this, cut garlic into small pieces and put it into pot with olive oil. Fry garlic just for 10 seconds and add stockfish. Stir everything with wooden ladle to cover stockfish with olive oil. Add wine and cook until alcohol evaporates (3-5-minutes).
• Add potato, parsley, bay leaf, peppercorn and maybe salt (fish is very salty). Add some water from potato pot just to cover everything.
• Cook not more than 15 minutes, otherwise stockfish will become like rubber.
• Serve hot, eat with the spoon.

CHRISTMAS EVE ZAPRASKA SOUP

Steps:

• Cook the vegetables in water for 1 1/2 hours. Add the zapraska and sauerkraut juice and cook for 30 more minutes.
• **To prepare zapraska:
• Brown the flour in the oil until pasty, add the water mixing constantly until smooth. Add to the soup and follow instructions above.

CROATIAN FISH "GREGADA"

Steps:

• For this meal you have to have large round pot with low rim.
• Prepare the potato: slice it in round thin pieces. Put it in a separate pot, cook until water starts to boil, cut the heat and leave it there.
• Put olive oil and garlic on heat and when starts to fry add fish sliced in pieces 3-6 cm large. DO NOT STIRR with any kind of ladle, just shake the whole pot.
• When fish starts to stick to pot add wine, salt, pepper, bay leaf and potato. Shake it well and add water to cover. Cook until potato is soft (15-20 min). At the end add parsley. Eat it with spoon.

DALMATIAN BOILED POTATO

Steps:

• If you use baby potato just "shave" the skin, otherwise, peal potato and cut into 5 cm large pieces.
• Cook in salted water until soft.
• Put olive oil, finely minced garlic and parsley in pot, add well strained potato and stir. Leave it on fire not more than one minute stirring all the time to cover potato with garlic and parsley. Serve hot with fish.