Among the various methods of cooking fish, baking stands out as one of the most useful. In addition, the result is very juicy and delicate, preserves all the properties of the products. Sea or river bass, baked in the oven, will definitely please the whole family for these reasons.
This is a very tasty dish that goes well with both a side dish of rice and potato dishes. Any housewife will need a proven recipe - a perch baked in the oven can even become a signature dish. So how do you cook it?
How to bake perch in the oven, if it is a marine variety
Before you start cooking, you should know that the method of preparation depends on the origin of the fish. The fact is that, despite the resemblance, sea bass is much more greasy than river. Another subtlety, important in any case, is the process of cleaning the skins. From this point of view, perch is not the most convenient variety of fish.
So, try baking perch in the fruit oven. For marine fish, this option is just perfect. You will need a kilogram carcass or fillet, three hundred grams of sweet and sour apples, you can take several varieties, three hundred grams of hard but sweet winter pears, two tablespoons of butter and the same amount of vegetable, black pepper, three tablespoons of lemon juice, salt, marjoram. For a side dish, try using rice porridge.
How to bake perch in the oven?
Rinse the carcass thoroughly, remove bones and skin, cut into portions and sprinkle with lemon juice. Sprinkle with marjoram, pepper, salt. Leave for a while to marinate. Wash and peel apples and pears, cut out cores and cut into large slices. Sprinkle with lemon juice so that they do not darken. In a deep form, lay the apples, salt and sprinkle with marjoram, lay the fillet or portion pieces on top, sprinkle with frozen butter, grated on a coarse grater. Put slices of pear, close the lid and put in a preheated to one hundred and eighty oven. Do not reduce the temperature during the entire preparation. It will take about half an hour. Serve to the table as you leave in the form, and laying out separately baked fruit with pieces of fish on top.
How to bake perch in the oven, if it is a river variety
Vegetables help make the fish especially flavorful in this recipe.
You will need three to four perches, ground pepper, salt, lemon, sixty grams of butter, two cloves of garlic, a package of spinach, one hundred milliliters of cream, two tablespoons of soft cheese, three to four tomatoes.
Clean and rinse the fish, add salt, pepper and sprinkle with lemon juice. Fry in melted butter in a pan. In the meantime, prepare the vegetables: chop the tomatoes into rings, chop the garlic and spinach. In a greased form, put the tomatoes, fish, add garlic, salt, pepper, spinach on top of it, sprinkle with seasoning or dry broth, fill with fat cream. You can sprinkle the dish with grated cheese to get a delicious golden crust. It takes twenty-five minutes at a temperature of two hundred and twenty degrees to bake perch in the oven according to this recipe. A good side dish is a potato dish.