I must say that baked fish, the recipe of which you can choose at your discretion, is not only everyday, but a festive dish. Made with a variety of sauces, it looks very impressive, and also can be suitable for a diet table. Various species are baked, whole or whole fillet of large sea fish, while the second option is still preferred. Most often, this seafood does not require long-term heat treatment, so just keep it in the oven for about half an hour to prepare the dish.
For the holiday, baked fish and cheese in sour cream sauce can become an original and delicious dish . Fresh or frozen pink salmon is well suited here, but you can take other types of large fish. The carcass is well washed in cold water (in warm or hot it can fall apart), it is cleaned, gills, fins, tail and head are removed from it. After that, it is cut lengthwise into small pieces, which are laid out in a dense row on a greased baking sheet. To prepare the sauce, salt, spices and chopped greens are placed in sour cream of medium fat content. The ingredients are thoroughly mixed, the resulting mixture is poured into the fish, the sauce is evenly distributed throughout the dishes. Pink salmon is put in a well-heated oven for half an hour; shortly before the end of cooking, it is sprinkled with hard, finely grated cheese. Such a baked fish, the recipe of which is very simple, turns out fragrant and satisfying, melting in the mouth.
For the preparation of catfish, pike, pikeperch, cod, you can use the recipe that will produce fish baked in Russian. Prepared and peeled fish is cut into pieces. Circles of boiled potatoes are laid out on the sides of the baking dish, and pieces of raw fish are placed in the middle. Everything is poured with sauce, which can be taken both sour cream and tomato, sprinkled with grated cheese and put in the oven until cooked. It is very important to make sure that the dish does not stop, as pieces of fish can fall apart if they have been in the oven for too long.
Also, baked fish, the recipe of which may contain additional ingredients, can become a full-fledged second course that does not require a side dish. For example, made with potatoes under mayonnaise. For this, the fish fillet (tilapia, halibut, etc.) is cut into portioned slices, salted, peppered and left for some time. Potatoes are peeled and cut into thin slices, tomatoes - into thin slices. Cheese is rubbed on a medium grater. Half the cooked potatoes are laid out in the prepared form, slightly salted. The next layer will be the fish, on which it is necessary to place the tomatoes and lay out the remaining potatoes. The last layer is well smeared with mayonnaise, sprinkled with cheese, and the whole dish goes to the oven. Cooking time depends on the degree of readiness, first of all, vegetables, especially potatoes, but, most often, it does not take more than an hour. An additional layer can be laid onion, cut into rings, it will be located on the fish. Each product is preferably slightly salted. Spices are added to fish dishes in small quantities, as they are fragrant in themselves. Before serving, it is better to decorate the fish with chopped greens on top.
You also get tender baked fish, the recipe for which will be the following. Prepared fish fillet is laid out in a mold. A sauce is prepared with which it will be poured. Flour is added to the melted hot butter, mixed well, left on the fire, a glass of milk and the same amount of water or fish broth are poured here, brought to a boil. The sauce is salted, peppered, boiled over a fire for about 5 minutes, after which half a glass of grated cheese is poured into it, everything is mixed until the latter is completely dissolved. Hot sauce is poured into pieces of fish fillet, the dish is put in the oven.