Balchi di Pisca

Name: Balchi di Pisca
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 23 min
Total time: 38 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Aruba
Ingredients: 1 salt cod; 3 potatoes; 1 tomato; ½ green bell pepper; 1 onion; 1 clove garlic; ½ tsp tobasco sauce; Dash nutmeg; To taste salt; To taste pepper; 1 egg

An Aruba dinner made with seafood. Ready in about 38 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

15 minPrep (about)
23 minCook (about)
38 minTotal time
4Servings
MediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

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Main ingredient

2 salt cod

Fresh & other

5 potatoes
2 tomatoes
¾ green bell pepper Shopping tip: Bell pepper (UK recipes call it pepper).
2 onions
2 cloves garlic
2 eggs

Sauces & oils

¾ tsp tobasco sauce

Spices & seasonings (3): nutmeg, salt, pepper

Dash nutmeg
To taste salt
To taste pepper

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

These delectable fish balls can too be made with salmon or fish fillets.
Substitute one big can of salmon or pound of any white fish for your cod.
Soak for twenty-four hours
2 salted cod, or bakijow Discard your water.
Place cod in pot with fresh water to cover.
Simmer till your fish flakes easily when tested using the tines of a fork.
Strain, reserving a bit of the broth.
De bone the cod.
Set it aside for later use.
Bring to boil in water to cover: diced When the potatoes, peeled and 5 medium potatoes are tender in a pot.
Drain them well.
Add the cod.
Mash the two ingredients well together.
Place in your container of an electric blender.
2 tomatoes, peeled and chopped.
¾ green pepper, chopped.
2 medium onions, peeled and chopped.
2 cloves garlic, slivered.
¾ tsp.
Tabasco sauce, or minced hot pepper.
Dash of nutmeg.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Blend for a few seconds.
Pour the sauce over the mashed fish mix.
Mix these ingredients well.
Add about 2 eggs, beaten Mix should be stiff enough to mold in balls around one plus half inches.
Do it in diameter, If it's too dry.
Add your fish stock a tablespoon at a time.
Fry the balls in hot, deep fat till golden.