Celebration meal Puerto Rican serenata de bacalao

I have been strategically waiting for today after the weight in to make this delicious Puerto Rican dish :). Since I got such surprisingly good result last week, I felt no guilt to eat my portion of Serenata. This salad full of tropical root veggies dried cod is either low carb nor low calorie but its damn good.

Dry cod should be soaked in plenty of water over night changing the water 2 or 3 times to drain out the salt so its not overly salty. This salad could serve 5 -6 as part of the meal, or 4 for large entree. You will need:
1 lb of bacalao or salted cod (buy the one from Canada or USA if you can, not the ones from China)
1 small yuca root
1 lb of taro (4 small taros)
2 medium green plantain
1/2 onion
1 avocado
2 eggs,
1 tomato
8 green stuffed olives
4 Tablespoons of olive oil
Salt pepper

Peel the plantin, taro and yuca. You must use gloves for this endeavour. or else you will end up with itchy hands.

Yuca, plantain and taro each has different cooking time. So it is best to cook them separately or add them to the same pot at different times. Boil water in another pot for the bacalao. That pot should not have added salt. Once the water boils, add the bacalao and simmer for 4 minutes. Take it out and let it cool.
Add a pinch of salt in a pot with water for boiling the veggies.. Plantain takes the longest about 20 minutes (even if you cut it in 1 inch disks as shown above), Yuca takes 17 minutes, and taro (don't need to cut, just the whole thing) takes 15 minutes. At the last 5 minutes of cooking time add 2 eggs. Once time is up promptly remove the veggies and put the egg in a ice bath. Then peel. It should give you a semi running egg yolk.

While the veggies are boiling you can prepare the salad. I had some left over iceberg lettuce from last time (when I made lamb kafta) so i slice it and put it in the salad. Slice the avocado and tomatoes.

Add the egg, yuca, diced taro, and plantains. Add the bacalao and olive oil. You can add a little of vinegar and adjust salt and pepper. I served myself 65 grams of yuca, 65 grams of taro, 65 gram of plantain, 1/4 avocado, 1/4 tomato, 2 olive, 3 oz of bacalao and 1/2 a egg. The nutritional breakdown is:
592 calories,67 g carb, 25 g of fat, 29 g of protein and 11 g of sugar.

Jose says Serenata de Bacaloa is one of his favorite puerto rican food.

PS: 10 minutes after I finished I feel really sleepy :P i think my body is not used to such carb overdose. I have to watch out tonight. This is not something we can eat regularly for sure. lol