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Salt Cod with Chickpeas, Cabbage and Boiled Egg

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Description

A classic Portuguese dish combining tender salt cod flakes with boiled chickpeas, winter cabbage, and egg, finished with hot olive oil infused with garlic.


Recipe

• Soak the dried chickpeas overnight.

• Cook the chickpeas in salted water with a bay leaf.

• Separately cook the cabbage in boiling water.

• Boil the eggs for 8–10 minutes.

• Poach the desalted cod for 5 minutes.

• Flake the cod and remove any bones.

• Heat olive oil with sliced garlic until lightly golden.

• Plate: chickpeas → cabbage → cod flakes → sliced egg.

• Drizzle generously with the hot garlic-infused olive oil