Icelandic Baked Fish (plokkfiskur)

INSTRUCTIONS

• 1
  Prepare a pot and fill it with enough water to cook the potatoes. Then peel the potatoes, cut them into small cubes, place them in the prepared pot, and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, peel the onions and slice them thinly. Once the water in the pot starts boiling, salt it, reduce the heat to medium, cover the pot with a lid, and cook the potatoes for 9⁠–⁠10 minutes. After this time, add the cod fillets to the pot and cook everything for another 5 minutes under the lid on medium heat.
• 2
  While the potatoes and cod are cooking, prepare a larger pan and heat 1 tablespoon of oil over medium heat. Then add butter and the sliced onion to the pan and sauté everything for 4⁠–⁠5 minutes over medium heat. Next, add cooking cream, dried thyme, dried dill, ground cumin, salt, and pepper to the pan, stir, and cook the entire mixture for 3⁠–⁠4 minutes over medium heat. Then remove the pan from the heat.
• 3
  Now preheat the oven to 200 °C and prepare a baking dish (23 cm × 27 cm). Once the potatoes and cod are cooked, drain them, add them to the cooked mixture in the pan, and mash the contents of the pan with a fork. Transfer the resulting mixture to the prepared baking dish. Then grate the Edam cheese on a fine grater and sprinkle it over the mixture in the baking dish. Place the dish in the preheated oven and bake for 20⁠–⁠25 minutes until golden at 200⁠–⁠210 °C.
• 4
  Remove the baked mixture from the oven, divide it into 2 portions, and serve.