Malaga Salad Recipe

The salad from Malaga is a very fresh salad, simple and quick to make. In addition, it is a very complete dish, since it has potato, fruit and cod, a contrast of flavors that is great. The fruit gives a lot of flavor to the dish and the cod adds extra texture.

This Malaga salad is very easy and quick to make. If you buy the soaked cod it is ready, you just have to crumble it and add it to the salad. If you buy it salty, the first thing to do is to desalt it, for which it is necessary to keep it in water for 24 hours. If you want to try this colorful and nutritious salad, keep reading and discover how to make Malaga salad and its ingredients.

Ingredients to make Malaga Salad:

1. 2 potatoes
2. 1 orange
3. 2 eggs
4. 1 spring onion
5. 150 grams of code
6. 1 handful of black olives
7. 1 splash of olive oil
8. 1 splash of vinegar
9. 1 pinch of salt
10. 1 pinch of chives (optional)

How to make Malaga Salad:

• If you have bought the salted cod, before starting the recipe you will have to desalt it. Thus, put the cod to soak and leave it for about 24 hours covered with water in the fridge. You will have to change the water 2-3 times. It must be left with a point of salt so that it adds that touch to the dish and the Malaga salad is perfect. The time needed to desalt cod can vary depending on the thickness of the fish. You can also buy crumbled that is desalted before.
• Cook the whole potatoes with skin in a saucepan, so that they are completely covered with water. When they are cooked, remove them and let them cool down to peel them better.
• On the other hand, heat another saucepan with water over high heat. When it starts to boil, cook the eggs over medium heat. When the water boils again, count 10 minutes of cooking, remove them, let them cool and peel them.
• Put the desalted cod in a saucepan with a little hot water and cook it for a few minutes. When it is, take it out and reserve.
• Cut the potatoes into small pieces, chop the eggs and mix both ingredients in a salad bowl or the source that you are going to use to serve the Malaga cod salad.
• Chop the spring onion and add it on top of the salad.
• Peel the orange, remove the white part and cut it into thin slices or pieces. Distribute the fruit over the salad and add the black olives.
• Once the cod is cooked, remove the skin and bones and crumble or cut it into pieces. Add the fish to the salad being careful not to break it too much.
• Now that you have all the ingredients for the Malaga salad ready, prepare the dressing. To do this, mix the oil, vinegar and salt in a small bowl, beat well to emulsify the oil and dress the salad with this preparation. Finely chop the chives and add it to the salad, along with a little pepper. Serve it very cold!
• Trick: add a little flake salt on the orange and the potatoes to give it an extra flavor and texture.
• Variants of Malaga salad
• Although the Malaga cod salad is the most traditional, today there are many variations of this recipe, all of them delicious and original. For example, you can make the following recipes:
• Malaga Salad with Avocado– Simply add avocado slices to the above recipe and you are good to go.
• Malaga salad with tuna: substitute canned tuna for the cod and enjoy an even simpler salad.