salt fish
Dried brined catch
Salt fish is fish preserved by salting and drying, a method predating refrigeration that remains central to Caribbean, Portuguese, and Scandinavian cuisines.
Cod is the most common variety, often called salt cod or bacalao.
The fish must be soaked before cooking to remove excess salt: She soaked the salt fish overnight for ackee and salt fish.
- codCold-water food fish
- brineWater saturated with sodium
- preservedKept from deterioration
- driedStripped of moisture
- bacalaoSpanish dried cod
cured · anchovies · stockfish · herring · flaky · soak · rehydrate · barrel · fishmonger · ocean · smoked · whitebait · pungent · Caribbean · West Indian · ackee · fritters · Portugal
- Asian Seafoodprawns, crab curry, prawn curry, chili crab, black pepper crab
- Atlantic CanadaNova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Acadians, Bay of Fundy
- Baltic tradeLubeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, Riga
- Caribbean foodjerk chicken, curry goat, callaloo, oxtail stew, saltfish
- Caribbean stewcallaloo, saltfish, pigtail, pig tail, provisions
- fish saltingbrining, curing, brine, anchovies, lox
preservation method
salt fishfresh fish
Recently caught seafood
fresh catch · catch of the day · raw fish · wet fish · frozen fish
salt, fish, salts, salted, salting, salty, saltier, saltiest, saltiness