Pink salmon comes from the salmon family, and is its smallest representative. This fish owes its name to a hump that grows in males during the spawning season. Like other salmon, pink salmon is highly recommended by nutritionists due to the nutritional and balanced nature of its meat. Omega-3 acids discovered not so long ago are useful to any person, as they delay the aging process. And vitamin PP, which is abundant in pink salmon, regulates the functioning of the intestines and nervous system.
Moreover, such a useful fish is not actually recommended only for those who are allergic to fish products, as well as for people who are “conflicting” with iodine and phosphorus.
Cooking methods
Like any other fish, you can cook a great variety of various dishes from pink salmon. Quite petty let in the ear; a large one is also suitable for these purposes, but it’s a pity to transfer a valuable product simply to “soup”. Pink salmon can be fried, baked, salted. It is not advised to languish, but in a salty-dried form it is simply excellent.
There is a difference from most other fish species. Pink salmon salad is very tasty. Moreover, fish for him can be prepared in almost any way. And if the same herring is not combined with too many salad ingredients, then pink salmon provides a wide selection of "passing" elements.
Preparatory stage
If you decide to cook a salad of boiled pink salmon, the fish must be properly prepared for consumption. First of all, the washed and gutted carcass is immersed only in cold water. It is boiled from 10 minutes to a quarter of an hour after boiling the contents of the pan, depending on size. Fish is salted only when the water is already boiling. When cooking, you can add lavrushka, onions (preferably a whole onion), celery and carrots - so pink salmon will become fragrant, and the fishy smell will beat off.
If in the preparatory work you prefer to use a multi- or double boiler, select the “Steam cooking” mode and the duration is 20 minutes. Pink salmon is laid in its entirety.
Boiled fish salads
The first is designed for 250 g of fish base. This potato salad will go 2 potatoes, 1 tomato, 2 salad leaves, salt and lemon juice. The fish is cut in large enough slices, boiled potatoes (cooked as you like - you can peel, you can "in their uniform") - in circles, tomatoes - slices, also small. Everything is laid out on lettuce leaves, sprinkled with lemon juice - and on the table.
The second pink salmon salad includes 150 grams of boiled fish. It also includes potatoes (1 pc.), Tomato (1 pc.) And salad. Added pickles and vegetable (naturally, better olive) oil. Potatoes for this option are cut into cubes, and should be cooked in their uniforms. Cucumber is cut quite finely. The tomato should also be cut not into slices, but into cubes. All components are again laid out on lettuce leaves, sprayed with lemon and oil.
Smoked pink salmon
Usually this fish is smoked in a hot way, and most snacks use it. However, cold smoked salmon salad has a very delicate taste, so try to cook it.
In addition to the fish itself, the dish includes pickles (you can pickle, but the taste of vinegar slightly spoils the final result), an egg and mayonnaise. Spreading the finished dish is recommended again on lettuce leaves, but this is not necessary. This pink salmon salad is not salted. Moreover, it is best combined with the same low-salted side dishes, for example, with mashed potatoes.
The fish is cut: the bones are removed, and the carcass itself is cut. If you wish, you can simply tear it with your hands. Cucumbers rub on a coarse grater or cut into strips. Boiled eggs are also crushed. In a deep bowl, mix everything that consists of a fish salad with pink salmon, including mayonnaise, and firmly “trample”. In this form, the dish should be infused in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Want beauty and love green salad? Lay out the leaves on a flat plate and turn the bowl over on them to make a neat slide. Do not want a salad - let it be the same mound, but on clean dishes. On top of the pink salmon salad you can decorate with olives, slices of lemons, pickles, greens - everything that turns up by the arm and goes with fish.
Fancy Pickled Onions
It will be a very spicy salad if you add cooked potatoes and carrots to fresh smoked pink salmon, fresh tomato and season with mayonnaise and vegetable oil. Pickle onion brings a twist to it . If it is small, then you don’t even need to cut it. All other ingredients are finely chopped, mixed, salted (only carefully, onions bring some salinity to the salad). The dish is seasoned and refrigerated: such a salad is eaten chilled.
All of us have long been accustomed to pickled and pickled cucumbers in snacks. However, pickled onions give a completely different aftertaste and very well emphasizes the fishy notes in the salad.
Pink salmon
Salted fish is also suitable for preparing snacks. Salad with salmon and avocado is very unusual. It also includes fresh tomatoes, parsley, onions (regular, onions or lettuce - even white, even red), salt, ground pepper, vegetable oil (remember: olive is preferable) and all the same lettuce leaves.
Skin is removed from the fish fillet, bones are removed, and meat is cut into medium-sized cubes. Tomatoes are scalded - it’s easy to peel them — and they cut in the same way. A bone is drawn from the avocado, the vegetable is peeled and cut (with the same cubes). But the onion is cut into thin, transparent half rings. Finely chopped parsley is mixed with everything else, salt and pepper are added. Further - traditionally. That is, everything is laid out on the leaves of green salad, plus lemon juice and oil. For beauty, mugs of lemon and olives are placed on top.
"Fur coat", but not with herring
Very similar components, but there are differences. Of course, salted pink salmon fit into the bottom of the container; if desired, it can be sprinkled with lemon juice. Cooked or baked beets are rubbed on top. It is smeared with mayonnaise. And here is an unexpected nuance: sour or sweet and sour apples rub without skin. Topped circles of pickles. All this construction should be saturated, so that it can be eaten somewhere in an hour. When preparing such a salad with salted pink salmon, tamp all layers except the cucumber.
Here is such a diverse, healthy and delicious pink salmon! Health and bon appetit!