Codfish with Eggplant
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Codfish with eggplant is a common dish in Puerto Rico. Typically, dried codfish high sodium and with phosphorus additives is used for this dish. However, for this version, codfish fillet without phosphorus additives was used. The cod is stewed with eggplant in a Creole sauce. This dish ends up low in protein by using less codfish and more eggplant. Serve hot with white or brown rice.
26mins
1 cup
Appropriate for
Diets
Ingredients
- 1 medium yellow onion, sliced
- 4 cups eggplant, cut into small cubes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ cup unsalted tomato sauce
- ½ cup water
- 1 tablespoon sofrito
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 8 ounces codfish fillet without phosphorus additives
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- - Puerto Rican hot sauce, for taste
Directions
Prep
8mins
Cook
18mins
Total
26mins
- Preheat a large skillet with a lid on the stove over medium heat.
- Add oil, onion, and eggplant. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. During this time, stir 2-3 times and cover again.
- In a small bowl, combine tomato sauce, water, sofrito, minced garlic, and dried parsley. Mix.
- After 10 minutes, add the liquid to the skillet. Stir.
- Add codfish fillets to the skillet on top of the cooked onion and eggplant. Season the cod with salt and pepper. Cover and cook for 4 minutes.
- Flip the cod fillets, cover, and cook for an additional 4 minutes.
- Flake the codfish and mix well.
- Serve hot over white or brown rice. Finish with hot sauce, to taste.
Substitutions:
- If unsalted tomato sauce is unavailable, use regular tomato sauce and omit the salt. The sodium content of the recipe will vary.
- If you don't have sofrito, you can omit it.
- If you don't have Puerto Rican hot sauce, you can use another hot sauce to add flavor to the dish.
Meal types
Nutritional information
- Calories 150
- Carbohydrates 10 g
- Fiber 3.5 g
- Total Sugars 0 g
- Protein 12 g
- Fat 8 g
- Saturated Fat 1 g
- Sodium 189 mg
- Potassium 566 mg
- Calcium 35 mg
- Phosphorus 156 mg