Fish is a very valuable product in cooking, as it contains many substances, minerals and elements necessary for the human body. Therefore, from many of its varieties, culinary experts from around the world prepare delicious, unique, healthy dishes. Take, for example, a grouper - the fish is very bizarre, but healthy. It contains magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, calcium and many other elements. This fish occupies one of the leading places in diet, as it contains very few calories (there are only one hundred and eighty per hundred grams of product). Let us consider in more detail what a grouper fish is, a recipe for its preparation and useful properties.
Fish description
Huper belongs to the stone perch, it can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This fish is endowed with a unique color, where bright spots, expressive stripes and many other interesting patterns are combined. Moreover, color may vary due to changes in environmental conditions.
Interesting are the jaws of the fish. They are very massive, while the upper jaw is larger than the lower, which helps to swallow the whole prey. There are many varieties of this fish, they can be of different sizes and have different external characteristics. There is, for example, a giant grouper. This fish is three meters long and can weigh four hundred and fifty kilograms. And the length of some individuals does not reach twenty centimeters. That grouper, which has a weight of not more than fifty kilograms, has an exquisite taste and is considered a delicacy. Large breeds are unsuitable for cooking.
Grouper soup
Ingredients: three tablespoons of olive oil, two leeks, two onions, two hundred and fifty grams of white dry wine, one sturgeon head, four hundred grams of grouper fillet, parsley, one bay leaf, and one clove of garlic, one kilogram of potato, one hundred and seventy-five grams of milk, two yolks, salt to taste.
Cooking:
Very tasty and healthy is considered a grouper (fish). How to cook the first dish of it, we will now consider. So, leek is finely chopped, potatoes are cut into large pieces, finely chopped parsley. Olive oil is poured into the pan, onions and leek are put, stewed over low heat for ten minutes, until the vegetables have a golden hue. Then add one liter of water and bring to a boil. After that, add the head of fish, fillet, and after ten minutes put the same potatoes, salt and continue to cook for another half hour.
Over time, the head is removed, and the mixture is cooled. Then the grouper (fish) is taken from the broth, all bones and skin are removed from it, and then knead with a fork, put in a blender with potatoes and beat. Milk is added to the resulting mixture and mixed quickly. Beat the yolk, pour a little broth to it, without ceasing to beat. This mass is put in mashed potato, heated, but not boiled, and served, sprinkled with parsley.
Grouper with Bean Salad
Ingredients: one fish up to three kilograms, one ginger root, half hot and sweet peppers, six tablespoons of soy sauce, five tablespoons of vegetable oil, sesame oil, two pinches of white pepper, corn starch, green onion. For the salad: three hundred and fifty grams of beans, one small red onion, four spoons of Teriyaki sauce, one hundred and twenty grams of sprouts (wheat, beans and so on).
Cooking:
Grouper (fish, the photo of which is attached) according to this recipe is cooked in a slow cooker. To begin with, it is cleaned of gills, scales and intestines, washed well and cut into pieces, not cutting to the end. Pieces are coated with a mixture of salt, white pepper and starch. The green part of the onion is cut into slices of medium size, put in cold water, and the white on the bottom of the multicooker. The grouper is laid on top with an even layer.
Peppers, a portion of the green onion feathers and ginger are cut into strips and spread on top of the fish. Then gently pour boiling water and select the “Steamer” mode, set the time for fifteen minutes.
Cooking salad
Beans are boiled in water, adding a little salt. The onions are chopped and fried in oil, then beans, Teriyaki sauce and sprouts are added to it. All this is well mixed and laid out on a dish.
A grouper is a fish that is served with bean salad in almost all Chinese restaurants, so this dish will surprise any gourmet.
Grouper in foil with potatoes
Ingredients: one fish for about seven hundred grams, four potatoes, juice from half a lemon, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt and spices to taste.
Cooking:
First of all, they cut the fish, clean it, removing the gills and fins, wash it. Then it is poured with lemon juice, rubbed with salt and spices. This product is left to marinate for half an hour. In the meantime, peel the potatoes, cut them into circles and spread them on foil, which must first be greased with oil. Fish is laid on top of it, and then again potatoes. The foil is wrapped, making a bundle, and placed on a baking sheet, which is then sent to the oven for half an hour.
Baked grouper (fish) is a self-sufficient dish, therefore, does not require any additives. If desired, fresh cherry tomatoes or greens can be served with it.
Grouper with tomatoes and olives
Ingredients: four pieces of fish, two hundred grams each, three hundred grams of cherry tomatoes, eighty grams of pitted olives, two onions, six tablespoons of olive oil, three hundred grams of light beer, as well as four chopped basil leaves, five tablespoons of fish ( vegetable) broth, salt and spices to taste.
Cooking:
Gruper is very tasty. Fish, the photo of which is familiar to us, can be served on the festive table. To prepare this dish, you must first peel the onion, chop it, tomatoes and olives are cut in half. Onion and fish are fried in oil in a pan for five minutes until golden brown. Then they put tomatoes and olives, in two minutes they add beer, which must be evaporated over high heat. The fish is watered with broth, sprinkled with salt and spices, cooked for two minutes. Ready fish is placed on a dish and sprinkled with basil.
A grouper is that fish that is used for cooking various dishes. It is good in any form: boiled, fried, baked, and so on. Dishes from this fish are excellent, they have a unique taste and aroma, and cooking them is a pleasure.