This outlandish fish is catfish. She has an awesome look. A huge head with a mustache, body length up to 5 meters and up to 300 kg of weight. However, such monsters have two drawbacks. Firstly, it is rather problematic to pull them ashore, and secondly, their meat has a taste of tina. Therefore, young catfish, weighing up to 15-20 kg, are consumed more. They have very tasty meat and some unscrupulous sellers of catfish fillet can even pass it off as sturgeon.
Before reading the recipe for cooking catfish, you need to familiarize yourself with how to cook dishes from it:
The main advantage of this fish is that it does not have scales, and there are no bones between the muscles. Therefore, it is enough just to scrape it slightly with a knife and does not need to be cleaned.
Cut the catfish as follows. First, the head is separated in the area where the pectoral fins are located. Then cut his belly along to the anal fin. In this case, it is impossible to damage his gall bladder, otherwise the bile will spill, and the meat will become bitter. The insides are removed from the abdomen and the inner walls are cleaned of films. To remove the ventral and dorsal fins, cuts should be made along each fin to the spine on both sides. Then the fin is pulled out of the body of the fish by fingers. This is suitable for small fish, if you are making a larger catfish, then it is better to gut it, and then chop it with an ax into pieces that will already be convenient for further cutting. The size of the pieces will depend on which recipe you choose to cook the catfish.
Often throw away those parts of the fish that got bile from a cut gallbladder. But this does not need to be done. It is enough to rub these places with salt, and then wash it off.
Often, catfish, especially large, has a smell of tina. You can get rid of it if you pour fish with lemon juice or dry white wine and then rinse after 15-20 minutes. You can soak the meat for several hours in milk. It will also remove all odors.
Soma can be prepared in different ways: cook, fry (including deep-fried), bake, make barbecue, meatballs and goulash from it. It turns out very delicious catfish baked in the oven. Therefore, it is so difficult to choose the best recipe for preparing catfish.
Catfish cutlets with cheese and mushroom sauce.
It takes 500-600 grams of catfish, two eggs, 150 grams of hard cheese, three tablespoons of semolina, breadcrumbs and dill. For the sauce you need 150 grams of mushrooms, one head of onion, two tablespoons of flour, sour cream and vegetable oil.
Grind the catfish in a meat grinder. Add eggs, semolina, chopped dill, salt and pepper to it. Mix thoroughly and add the cheese grated on a fine grater. Then put the minced meat in the refrigerator for half an hour. We prepare the sauce separately. Boil the mushrooms, salt. We filter the broth, and finely chop the mushrooms. Fry the onion in vegetable oil, add the flour during the frying process. Then pour one glass of mushroom broth and all the sour cream. We make cutlets from chilled minced meat, bread in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then put them in the sauce and simmer for another five minutes.
Another recipe for cooking catfish is barbecue.
You need to take two kg of catfish, one lemon, a tablespoon of mustard and mayonnaise, parsley, dill, sugar, salt, ground white pepper and seasoning for fish. First, prepare the marinade. To do this, squeeze a lemon and mix its juice with mustard and chopped herbs. Then add mayonnaise, sugar, seasoning for fish, ground white pepper and salt. The fish meat must be cut into large cubes, put in the marinade and leave in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes. Pickled meat is strung on skewers and fry on charcoal. If there is no way to start a fire, you can bake kebabs in the oven, covering them with foil. It will also be very tasty.