# Bacalao al pil pil

Bacalao al pil pil is a Spanish dish made with cod, garlic, and olive oil.

- Total time: 40 min
- Cuisine: Spanish
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 3 or 4 garlic cloves
- 2 guindillas
- olive oil
- 50 grams cod skins
- 400 grams cod loin
- small piece of cod

## Instructions

1. Confit three or four cloves of garlic and two guindillas in olive oil.
2. Remove the garlic and guindillas when they are golden brown.
3. Put the cod skins and a small piece of cod to boil over low heat.
4. In the same oil from the garlics, add enough extra virgin olive oil to cover the cod loins.
5. Cook the cod loins with the skin facing up.
6. Remove the gelatin that the cod releases with a skimmer and put it in a pan.
7. Pour the oil through a colander to keep all the gelatin that may have been left.
8. Move the oil and cod gelatin with circular movements.
9. Add the fish stock little by little so that the sauce goes from an intense yellow color to a paler yellow color.
10. Adjust the salt if needed.
11. Pour all the gelatin and oil that have been released on the plate.
12. Stir for a couple of minutes to integrate all the sauce.
13. Add the cod loins and give the pan a final few movements.
14. Plate the cod loins and add pil pil sauce.
15. Add the confited garlics over the cod loins.

## Equipment

- pot
- spoon
- skimmer
- pan
- colander

## Tips

- Confit three or four cloves of garlic and two guindillas and remove when they are golden brown.
- Put the cod skins and a small piece of cod to boil over low heat.
- In the same oil from the garlics, add enough extra virgin olive oil to cover the cod loins.
- Cook the cod loins with the skin facing up.
- Remove the gelatin that the cod releases with a skimmer and put it in a pan.
- The cod has to be confited, so the oil will be over low or very low heat.
- Pour the oil through a colander to keep all the gelatin that may have been left.
- Move the oil and cod gelatin with circular movements.
- Add the fish stock little by little so that the sauce goes from an intense yellow color to a paler yellow color.
- Adjust the salt if needed.
- Do not stop stirring.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DItyNhko6PP/
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- Extracted: 2025-04-27

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