490. More About Main and Subordinate Ingredients

Brachos 3:7

An example of a subordinate ingredient that is not mixed with the primary ingredient is one who wants to eat salted fish and tempers it with bread so that the harsh brine will not burn his throat or tongue. In such a case one recites the bracha on the salted fish, which also discharges his obligation regarding the bread, which is subordinate. This is also the case in comparable situations.

Brachos 3:8

Let’s say that bread was broken into pieces and then cooked in a pot or mixed into soup. If the pieces are as large as an olive or if they are still recognizable as bread and their appearance has not changed, then the bracha of HaMotzi is recited. If they are not as large as an olive, or if they no longer resemble bread as a result of being cooked, then the bracha of mezonos is recited.