Fish allows you to diversify your menu - both everyday and festive. And of course, recipes for fish dishes on fasting days or dieting are very encouraging. Moreover, you can cook practically everything from aquatic inhabitants - from the first to salads, sandwiches and pastries. The only restriction can be considered only a dislike for this product. Sea fish are especially valued as the richest in all kinds of utilities and the least bony.
Pike perch salad with bell pepper
Let's start with the appetizers. It is very quick to prepare, simple and inexpensive to purchase the necessary components of sea pike perch with bell pepper in the form of salad. A pound of fish is boiled. The main thing is not to digest it so that the meat does not fall apart. 400 g of Bulgarian (more beautiful - colorful) peppers are washed, freed from seeds and cut into strips. Half a head of garlic is crushed along with half a glass of peeled walnuts. Basil with parsley is chopped finely. All components are mixed in a salad bowl, salted (if desired, and pepper) and seasoned with sour cream (two-thirds of a glass) mixed with a spoon of rice vinegar.
Pike perch shish kebab
Fans of this dish often cook it from fish. And all unanimously say that it’s the zander that is most suitable for barbecue. With bell pepper, the dish is even juicier and more tender. And you can even make such a barbecue at home, in the oven. For a kilogram of fish one medium lemon is taken, three tablespoons of tomato paste and sunflower oil, one - dry mustard, five cloves of garlic. The citrus is rubbed (together with the skin, but without seeds), the garlic is crushed, all the ingredients are mixed, salted, pepper and sweetened with sugar. Pike perch fillet is cut into small slices, two red onions into circles, two peppers into squares, and five tomatoes into large slices. Alternately, vegetables and fish are strung on skewers. The baking sheet is lined with foil, the skewers are laid out on it and smeared with half the marinade. After 5 minutes of baking, the skewers turn over, the second side of the kebab is smeared with the rest of the marinade - and again into the oven for another 5 minutes.
Baked pike perch with omelet
Many people like to bake fish in the oven. Depending on the different additions, a different taste is always obtained. So, sea pike perch with bell pepper under some sauce in the oven will certainly become soft and fragrant. And it is especially interesting with an omelet. The fish is cut portionwise and fried in a pan until it is fully cooked. Then it is loosely laid out on a baking sheet; at intervals, separately fried bell peppers with onions are placed. Fans of mushrooms can add them. 4 eggs and a half liter of milk are beaten with a mixer or blender, the mixture is poured over pike perch with vegetables, the sheet is placed in the oven until the omelet is browned. The fish is obtained immediately with a side dish.
Braised pike perch
The most common way to cook fish, vegetables, poultry and meat is to stew them. The easiest option is with onion frying. But there are more interesting recipes. For example, sea pike perch stewed with vegetables, where it is richer in taste.
A pound of fish, cut so that it is convenient to eat, is salted and peppered. Each slice is rolled in flour; excess breading is shaken off. For a couple of minutes from each side, the pieces are fried in a strong light. Two onions are cut in half rings, two bell peppers - in strips, two tomatoes - in slices. Before peeling them off or leave them as they are, everyone decides for himself. In a separate bowl, onions are first lightened, after about three minutes pepper is reported to it, and after another five - tomatoes. Want to get more spicy zander - at this point add a couple of crushed garlic cloves. When the tomatoes start juice, pieces of fish join the vegetables, the container is covered with a lid, and the dish is stewed for about 10 minutes. Before turning off, chopped parsley is added. Just such a sea pike perch with bell pepper is not served. He should stand for a while in the pan where he was cooking, “breathing” and saturated with vegetable juices and the smell of greens.
Stewed pike perch in sour cream
This dairy product is highly appreciated for both stewing and baking, as it makes the result of culinary work juicy and can be combined with virtually anything. Including fish. The carcass of a pike perch is taken, eviscerated, cleaned of scales, fins and head and cut into pieces. If you want to free yourself from bones - cut the fish into fillets. Sea pike perch will be no less tasty , the recipe gives you complete freedom of action in this regard. Salted slices are breaded in flour and fried. Separately, onions are allowed - the more, the juicier the dish will be. In a thick-walled saucepan or deep frying pan, the onion layer is laid at the bottom, pepper and peeled by fish. This is done before the end of both. There should be a bow on top. The vessel is poured with non-greasy sour cream, covered with a lid and sent to the ring. Stewed pike perch stewed in sour cream will be cooked on the smallest fire for about twenty minutes - depends on the size of the carcass.
Note that many housewives often abuse seasonings. It's too much! Especially when ready-made spice mixtures are used. The fish should have a light natural flavor, then it is eaten with much more appetite.