Koktal is an Asian dish. It is a fish smoked with vegetables in a hot way. Typically, freshwater species are used for this dish, usually carp, and vegetables such as tomatoes, potatoes, onions and others.
How to cook
For a cocktail of fish, a special device is used - a cocktail bowl. And the cooking technology is that the uncleaned carp is cut along the ridge, opened and laid with scales on the grate. Grease the inside with mayonnaise, chopped vegetables on top, and whole potatoes around.
If there is no cocktail bowl, you can cook on the grill or grill, and even at home in the oven.
Kazakh dish
It is considered national among the Kazakhs. They cook it not only with carp, but also with other types of river fish, such as catfish, grass carp, silver carp, carp. The finished dish must be necessarily large, it is even called "Kazakh fish pizza." Fish for cocktails should be taken only fresh and large. It is advisable not more than 5 kg so that it smokes faster.
Cocktail of fish in a cocktail bowl
Koktalnitsa is a smokehouse that looks like a barbecue. The cooking process of this dish will be quite lengthy, and first of all you need to stock up with all the necessary ingredients:
- Fish weighing from 3 to 8 kg. It can be carp, common carp, grass carp, silver carp.
- 4 pieces of tomatoes.
- 3 sweet peppers.
- The bulb is large.
- Mayonnaise.
- Lemon juice.
- Ground black pepper.
- Salt.
- Greens.
Cocktail preparation:
- Cut the fish along the ridge along the entire length, including along the head. Abdomen not cut. Do not remove the scales.
- Remove entrails, cut off gills, wash and dry. As a result, something like tortillas should come out of the carcass.
- Put it on the grill down with scales and make incisions on it.
- Sprinkle fish with salt, pepper, drizzle with lemon juice, grease with mayonnaise sauce, leave for one hour.
- Cut the tomatoes into circles, onions and peppers peeled from seeds - in rings.
- When the marinating of the fish is over, put half onion on it, then a little mayonnaise, then pepper and tomatoes, a little more mayonnaise, the remaining onion and greens, squeeze the juice from the lemon.
- For flavor, put cherry branches (several pieces) at the bottom of the cocktail bowl, put in a smokehouse grate with fish. Set on fire for 40 minutes.
A cocktail of fish should turn out juicy and tender. In this dish, the harmony of river fish with vegetables is especially felt.
In the oven
Not everyone has the opportunity to use a special smokehouse. Therefore, the question may arise about how to cook a carp in the oven tasty, so that it turns out, as in a cocktail bowl.
To prepare this option, the dishes will need the following ingredients:
- Common carp weighing 1 kg.
- One bell pepper.
- One eggplant.
- Two tomatoes.
- Five tablespoons of grated cheese.
- One onion.
- Four tablespoons of mayonnaise.
- A slice of lemon.
- Fresh greens.
- Garlic.
- A teaspoon of seasoning for fish.
- Ground pepper.
- Salt.
Making cocktails from carp in the oven:
- Wash the vegetables, pat them dry with a towel.
- Remove the scales from the fish, cut along the entire back and head. Gut, without damaging the gallbladder, remove the gills. Rinse the fish, dry with a towel.
- Lay a foil on a baking sheet and grease it with vegetable oil.
- Put the carp on the foil down with the upper part, sprinkle with salt, ground pepper, seasoning for fish. You can sprinkle with lemon juice, but this is not necessary. Let the fish stand and soak for about 10 minutes.
- Cut the onion in half rings, put on the fish, then gently grease with mayonnaise or apply a net.
- Cut the eggplant into thin circles and put on the fish.
- Cut sweet bell pepper into rings, send to eggplant and apply a net of mayonnaise.
- Then the tomatoes, sliced in circles, and again a mesh of mayonnaise.
- Sprinkle grated cheese with vegetables.
- Put the baking sheet in a pre-heated oven for an hour and a half at a temperature of 160 degrees. Cook in the lower and upper heating mode.
When the fish cocktail is ready, take it out of the oven and sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs. Serve with baked potatoes.
With potato
Another cocktail recipe - with potatoes and herbs. The dish will be cooked at home in the oven. The first thing to do is take the following products:
- Three potato tubers.
- One clove of garlic.
- Two onions.
- Three tomatoes.
- Two pieces of sweet bell pepper.
- 250 ml of mayonnaise.
- Ground salt and pepper.
- Greens: marjoram, dill, parsley.
- Common carp or carp weighing 2.5 kg.
Making a cocktail of fish:
- Cut the fish along the ridge and head, cut the gills, remove the insides, leave the scales (but, if you wish, you can clean it).
- Wash the carcass properly, fill it with salt and leave for 30 minutes.
- When half an hour has passed, remove the salt and rinse the fish well from the tap.
- Lay a sheet of foil on a baking sheet, if the fish is without scales, and grease it with vegetable oil. If carp / carp is not cleaned, do not put foil.
- On a baking sheet, put the fish down with scales.
- Chop the garlic and grate the carcass. Then cut the onion into rings and put on top.
- Peel, wash and cut the potatoes in circles, then send to a layer of onion. Potatoes can be pre-boiled in their skins until half ready.
- Then sprinkle with salt, pepper, grease with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
- Wash the bell peppers, remove the seeds, cut into rings and lay out with the next layer.
- Cut the tomatoes into circles, put them on top of the bell pepper, salt, pepper and grease with mayonnaise.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees, put a pan with fish in it and bake for about 50 minutes.
- While the fish is preparing, chop fresh greens. You can add leek, cilantro.
- After 50 minutes, remove the baking sheet from the oven, sprinkle the dish with herbs and return to the oven for 15 minutes.
Fish and vegetables and potatoes will be a good dinner.
Conclusion
Preparing a cocktail is not so difficult, but if you do it right - in the cocktail bowl, you will have to be patient. It’s easier to cook in the oven, but it will, of course, be different from that cooked in the smokehouse.