Any fish cooked in the oven is incredibly healthy and tasty. It is enough to add lemon and a light side dish to it, and a delicious nutritious dinner is ready. And what could be better than baking a bream in the oven? Probably the only traditional Russian dish is stuffed pike. But we will talk about it in another article. So, what do we need in order to bake bream in the oven?
Ingredients:
- bream carcass 1 kg (possible more);
- shallots and garlic;
- olives and parsley;
- low-fat sour cream and butter;
- lemon, salt and spices.
Baked bream recipe:
- The bream should be thoroughly washed and the entrails removed. Now clean and make cuts on the skin so that when baking, the shape of the fish does not deform. This technique will also help soften the bones, since the heat through the incisions will penetrate more intensively into the fish.
- Now it's the turn for spices and lemon juice. The fish must be carefully seasoned. Peel and cut the olives, chop the shallots into half rings. Grind the parsley. In a small bowl, mix these ingredients, add lemon juice and softened butter. Season and stuff the bream with the mixture.
- From two onions and garlic make a pillow for fish. To do this, you just need to chop the vegetables. Cover the refractory form with foil and lay onion cushion on it. If you want your bream stuffed, baked in the oven, to be more juicy, then you can add chopped tomato.
- For a golden crust, the fish can be coated with mayonnaise or sour cream and put on an onion pillow. Before you directly bake the bream in the oven, you should coat it with oil and wrap it in foil. Only after these actions can fish be placed in the oven.
- There are a lot of fillings with which you can stuff bream. These are lemon rings with onion half rings and parsley, and potatoes with mushrooms and tomatoes. Incredibly tasty filling is obtained from leek and grated carrots. There, for piquancy, walnuts are added. No less popular is the filling of mushrooms, herbs and cheese. There may be limitations solely in your imagination.
- For garnish, boiled rice or tender whipped mashed potatoes is recommended. And a light cauliflower salad is also possible . By the way, cauliflower itself will be a wonderful side dish to such a great dish.
- While you were preparing the side dish, 25-30 minutes passed. Now you can get the bream. The foil from the fish should be removed to form a golden crust. Put for another few minutes under a very hot grill, so as not to dry the fish, and your bream is ready.
- Serve on a large platter with a pillow of fresh herbs framed by quarters of lemon or lime, olives and chopped tomatoes. You can come up with your own, completely new presentation. Or prepare a specific sauce suitable for fish. As you can see, baking bream in the oven is not at all difficult! Perhaps this recipe will become your signature dish, which all relatives simply can’t refuse, no matter how satisfying they eat before!