Sea bass can be called a rather fatty fish rich in omega-3 acids. In addition, the meat of this fish contains a useful amino acid called Taurine, which is necessary to normalize cholesterol levels. This type of fish is very useful for those people who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure and atherosclerosis.
The appearance of sea bass is quite slightly different from the river, but his meat is several times juicier and fatter.
A little bit about cooking
Most often, sea bass is boiled or fried. Today we will tell you how to cook fried sea bass.
A very large number of people consider perch fish unsuitable for frying due to the fact that it has very dense skin with scales, which are quite difficult to clean. But the ear from this wonderful fish is incredibly tasty. It is difficult to clean perch as well as to clean pike or other cyprinids.
But, despite this, fried sea bass is very tasty. When roasted, its meat becomes very tender and juicy.
The recipe for fried perch is very simple. But the cutting method will have to choose a little different from those to which we are accustomed. You can not clean the skin from scales at all.
How to clean perch
Open the abdominal cavity with sharp scissors, starting from the tail to the head. Cut off the head and tail, take out with a knife all the insides. Now the fish should dry a little.
Make a longitudinal section along the fin on the back, pick up the skin on the front of the carcass with a knife and remove it with a sharp movement. This “operation” ends with pulling out the fin and the upper spines (picking them up from the back), and after that the lower fin.
Fried sea bass: recipes
Recipe One: Bass Perch
Ingredients:
- 3-4 pieces of perch fillet;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 1 lemon;
- 5 tablespoons of sour cream;
- 3 tablespoons of flour;
- salt, pepper, dill and breadcrumbs.
Cooking. Rub the perch fillet with freshly squeezed lemon juice, salt, pepper. After that, roll in flour. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, mix it with breadcrumbs and sour cream. Beat eggs until foam, salt them.
Dip the fillet that you prepared in eggs, then roll in a mixture of sour cream and cheese. Sauté the fish on low heat on both sides. The finished dish should be sprinkled with dill and served hot until the cheese crust has time to cool. Potatoes of any kind are an excellent side dish for grilled sea bass.
The sea bass in an aerogrill is prepared by the same principle.
Recipe Two: Sea Bass Fried in Starch
Ingredients (for 4 servings):
- 4 pieces of fillet of sea bass;
- 4 tablespoons of starch;
- half a teaspoon of thyme;
- vegetable oil and salt.
Cooking. If you have purchased a whole fish, you will definitely need to make fillet out of it. Remember that homemade fillet is much tastier than what you buy in the store. Cut a flesh with a sharp knife on one side of the fish as close to the bone as you can. Do the same on the other side.
Dry the fillet, rub it with salt and thyme. Let it stand for half an hour, then roll it in starch. Now it remains to fry the fish on both sides in heated sunflower oil.
The best side dish for sea bass, breaded in starch, is mashed potatoes or fried potatoes.
A very simple recipe, but it has several features that you will learn about now.
Remember that fish breaded in starch fries very quickly. And it will not become rosy, as always happens after using flour. Sea bass in starch is covered with a glaze like a transparent crust.
It is she who holds delicious fish juice and fat inside the pieces of fish. Thus, an incredibly tender and juicy fish is obtained, and if you add thyme - very fragrant.
Without exaggeration, this recipe can be called the best for preparing sea bass.
Fried sea bass is a rather satisfying and high-calorie dish. And the fillet of this fish is quickly and easily digested.
Enjoy your meal!