Fish slices, like fruit, vegetable or meat, occupy an important place on the festive table. All housewives try to cook such a dish, albeit at minimal cost.
In any restaurant, a fish plate is one of the obligatory snacks. But no less beautifully designed assorted can be made at home. A beautiful fish cut is prepared quite simply. There are no restrictions on the use of products for decoration. It all depends on your imagination.
Fish
To get a beautiful fish plate, you need to take fish of different colors. It can be light-salted salmon, smoked eel, halibut, even sprats. Do not forget that fish platter can be decorated with chopped vegetables, olives, lettuce, olives, lemon and herbs.
Some guests prefer fish to sandwiches, so you can use butter in the form of a rose for decoration. Cutting can also be decorated with black or red caviar.
Home-made fish slices
Fish cuts on the festive table can be served not only from products purchased at the supermarket. You can cook the fish yourself, and then, beautifully decorated, serve to the guests. Let's look at a few simple recipes.
Smoked Mackerel
The fish cut will look bright if smoked products are present in it. You can cook them yourself at home. Such a fish will have excellent taste and aroma. Mackerel, for example, is done very quickly. For cooking, we need the following products:
- Mackerel ice cream - 2 pieces.
- Onion husk.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon.
- Salt - 3 tablespoons.
- Water - 1 liter.
- Liquid smoke - 100 ml.
- The bottle is plastic.
Recipe
Fish should be thawed, cleaned, trimmed tail and fins, rinse the carcass well. Next, brew onion peel. To do this, fill it with water, and then bring it to a boil, boil over low heat for ten minutes.
After this, the husk needs to be removed and added so much water that a total of one liter of liquid is obtained. Add salt and sugar. Now let the broth cool completely, and add liquid smoke.
Take an empty plastic bottle, cut off the neck. There should fit one fish, and in order to enter two pieces, it is better to take a two-liter container.
Fill our fish with the mixture, close the hole tightly with a film and put in the refrigerator for three days. After the lapse of time we will take it out of the liquid, suspend it to dry for a couple of hours. Then grease with vegetable oil and put in the refrigerator. Here the fish is ready. She tastes of a beautiful smoked product, and the color is beautiful. Such a carcass will produce a wonderful fish cut.
However, remember that such a product is not designed for long-term storage. It is better to eat the fish for two days, and then cook fresh.
How to pickle herring?
Using this recipe, you will always get a good result. So, we have to purchase these products:
- Fresh-frozen herring - 1 kg.
To fill:
- Onion - 3 pieces.
- Water - 10 tablespoons.
- Sugar - 1 tsp.
- Salt - 2 tbsp. l
- Black pepper (ground) - 0.5 tsp.
- Table vinegar (9%) - 3 tbsp. l
- Ketchup - 2 tbsp. l
- Vegetable oil - half a cup.
We chop the onion rings, add the products for pouring, boil it all together with the onion. Let the mixture cool and taste.
Now take the herring, clean it, separate the fillet, and then cut it into pieces. Next, we put the fish in a jar or an enameled pan and pour our fill there. We will remove all this in the refrigerator, and in a day you can safely get a herring. She is ready.
How to decorate the cut?
Like any dish, fish slices can be decorated with vegetables and fruits. Nobody forbids you to combine different products. For example, you can cut roses from cucumbers, radishes, apples. Do not forget about the branches of greenery - they will add brightness to the dish.
A beautiful fish cut (the design is shown in the photo) is obtained using lemon slices and kiwi. Moreover, lemon juice combines wonderfully with all seafood, and they are very often used when decorating dishes.
You can decorate the fish slices with red or black caviar, or you can put small caviar sandwiches for the fish. Boiled shrimp and crayfish look very good. They will add exoticity to your festive table.
From thinly sliced salmon, bright red roses are very easily formed. And from herring fillet you can roll rolls with lemon and olives inside, fastening them with skewers or toothpicks.
You can also arrange the dish in the form of a flower consisting of egg petals. To do this, you need to cut the boiled eggs in half, remove the yolks and fill the cavities with red and black caviar, and put the boiled tiger prawns between them. Believe me, guests will appreciate such beauty.
Instead of an afterword
To make your fish cuts special and beautiful, do not be afraid to experiment. Bring your new ideas to life and boldly combine products. It all depends on your fantasies and financial capabilities!