If you want to please your loved ones with something tasty and at the same time useful, then it's time to cook such a dish - pike in the oven. The recipe is quite simple, and the cooking process does not take you much time. But everyone will appreciate your culinary abilities, and fish dishes will be constantly present in your family diet. In addition, you must agree that the home menu should be not only varied, but also useful, and the fish retains a large number of vitamins and minerals during any processing.
Useful properties of pike
Pike, like any fish, is rich in phosphorus, calcium, chlorine, potassium, molybdenum, fatty acids, proteins and other useful substances that ensure the health of our body. Even baked fish can retain a huge amount of vitamins and minerals.
A pike in batter or just a pike baked in foil turns out to be very tender and at the same time juicy in taste. Believe me, these dishes will appeal even to those who are not special fans of fish products. Fish is especially tasty if cooked with vegetables.
In this article, we will talk about such downtime and at the same time an unusual dish, like a pike in the oven. The recipe and cooking process for this dish will be described below.
Before preparing any dish, the fish must be pre-processed. To do this, wash the pike very thoroughly. After that, clean it from the scales, remove all the insides. Remember to cut the gills. After processing, our fish is ready to prepare a very tasty and healthy dish.
There are many options for cooking baked fish, but we will provide you with two of the most successful recipes.
Stuffed pike in the oven. Recipe
You will need such ingredients: one pike, herbs to taste, one lemon, two tomatoes, vegetable oil, one onion, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and various spices.
In advance prepared and peeled fish, grate with salt and pepper, as well as spices. Apply a thin layer of mayonnaise to the outside of the pike. Then cut the lemon and greens in circles (you can take dill, parsley or kizu) and stuff the pike with the resulting mixture .
Place foil pre-lubricated with any vegetable oil on the prepared baking sheet. Next, place the pike on the foil and lay the rings of tomatoes and onions on top. After that, carefully wrap the foil so that its juice does not leak out during the baking process.
Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees and place a baking sheet with fish.
The fish is baked in foil for about twenty to twenty five minutes. At the end of this time, you get a delicious pike with a golden brown. You can decorate this dish with fresh vegetables, olives and chopped herbs.
Pike in the oven is a recipe that will remain in your family for a long time.
Pike in sour cream is also very tasty.
Cooking this dish will not take you much time.
Cut the prepared and processed pike into medium pieces, add salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste, then mix well. Leave the pike to marinate for a couple of minutes.
Then chop the onion rings and sauté over low heat until it turns golden. After that, put the pike on the onion and fry on both sides. Fry the fish for five to seven minutes. Pour in sour cream. Choose sour cream so that it is not very thick, otherwise dilute it a little with water. After the sour cream boils, simmer the pike for about ten to fifteen minutes.
Next, sprinkle the pike with finely chopped herbs and simmer for another five minutes. Well, that’s it, a great healthy dish is ready! Serve the baked pike on a large flat dish. For beauty, you can sprinkle pike in sour cream with fresh vegetables, cut into small pieces - best of all tomatoes, bell peppers and fresh herbs.