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    My Colombian Recipes » Recipes » Main Dishes » Seafood » Picillo De Pescado (salted Fish With Tomato And Onions)

    Picillo de Pescado (Salted Fish with Tomato and Onions)

    Sep 10, 2014 · Modified: Jul 19, 2021 by Erica Dinho · 4 Comments

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    Picillo, also known as Pisillo, is a traditional Colombian dish from Los Llanos Orientales. This region covers most of the area of the departments of Arauca, Meta, Vichada and Casanare. Picillo is also a very popular dish in Venezuela, while each country has it's own variations, and can be made with dried meat or fish.

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    Picillo de Pescado (Salted Fish with Tomato and Onions)

    Erica Dinho
    5 from 4 votes
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    Servings 4

    Ingredients
     

    • 1 pound of salted codfish bacalao
    • 2 tablespoons of oil
    • 1 white onion diced
    • 3 scallions diced
    • 3 garlic cloves chopped
    • 1 red bell pepper diced
    • 2 large tomatoes chopped
    • Salt and ground black pepper
    • 1 teaspoon of ground cumin
    • ½ teaspoon of ground achiote or color

    Instructions
     

    • Soak the codfish overnight in water, changing the water 2 times.
    • In a medium pot, with enough water to cover the salted codfish, cook for about 15 minutes. Strain and remove any bones. Set aside.
    • In a large sauce pan warm the oil. Add the onion, scallions, red bell pepper, tomato and garlic. Cook until all the vegetables are soft. Season with salt and pepper. Add the fish, stir well and cook for about 5 minutes more.
    • Serve warm with arepa on the side.
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    Picillo de Pescado is made with salted fish and hogao made with scallions, onions, garlic, peppers, cilantro, achiote and tomato. It is usually served for breakfast with arepa on the side. Some cooks also add scrambled eggs to their picillo, but I made it the traditional way.

    Buen provecho!

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    My name is Erica and I was born and raised in Colombia and now live in the northeastern United States with my husband and family. This blog was inspired by my grandmother, Mamita, who was an amazing traditional Colombian cook.

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    1. Alan Bowman

      September 10, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      5 stars
      Hola Erica from Spain

      My first encounter with bacalao salado was in Spain as an invited guest with Alejandra to cena on Viernes Santo - fish soup with capers - it was absolutely vile, really disgusting. It was with a very great deal of effort that I had to say it was fine, very difficult if one's mouth is all screwed up as if one has just taken a bite out of a very tart lemon right after one has had a spoonful of arequipe.

      Alan

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    2. Angie@Angie's Recipes

      September 10, 2014 at 11:59 pm

      5 stars
      It must be very flavourful with salted fish.

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    3. Evelyne@cheapethniceatz

      September 11, 2014 at 4:34 pm

      5 stars
      A great breakfast dish indeed, looks so good. i have yet to buy an cook with salted fish.

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    4. ela@GrayApron

      September 12, 2014 at 6:26 am

      5 stars
      I have never tried salted fish....now I would know what to do with it! Thanks, looks fantastic.

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