Pikeperch is an incredibly tasty and healthy fish that contains a large amount of vitamins and amino acids. In cooking, pike perch has gained great popularity due to its ease of processing, it is very easy to clean, and it has few bones. First and second courses are prepared from this fish, it can be stuffed, smoked, salted and much more. The most unusual and interesting recipes are presented below.
Baked pike perch with zucchini and butter sauce
This dish looks very original and beautiful in a modern way. It uses standard ingredients, but this proves once again that you do not need to purchase the most expensive products to prepare a restaurant dish. To prepare a simple dish from pike perch according to the recipe with a photo, you need to take the following products:
- zander - 1 pc. (if you buy chopped fish, you need to purchase 2 clean fillets);
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- olives - 150 g (best obtained without seeds, otherwise you will lose a lot of time to remove them);
- butter - 80 g (a high-quality product should be taken; if there is a spread, the sauce will delaminate and have an unpleasant aftertaste);
- lemon - 2 pcs.;
- zucchini - 1 pc.
Also, for cooking you will need a small amount of olive oil, a few cloves of garlic and a broth cube.
How to cook
To avoid problems with cooking, you should follow the step-by-step instructions exactly:
- If the whole fish was bought, then it needs to be cleaned, the insides removed and the head cut off. Then along the spine you need to cut it in half. It turned out two fillets, one clean, and the second with a ridge, which also needs to be removed. After that, pull out all the existing bones with tweezers.
- Each fillet should be cut into three pieces and put them in a bowl. Sprinkle fish with olive oil, and sprinkle with 25 grams of chopped parsley. Add salt, pepper, mix and set aside.
- Now you need to put the pan on the fire and pour olives on it. They need to be fried a little, so that excess fluid comes out. This ingredient should be fried quite a bit and over low heat.
- Put the olives in a blender bowl, add the broth cube and garlic. Grind everything until a homogeneous black mass appears.
- Zucchini must be washed and cut lengthwise into thin slices.
- Now you need to take the baking dish, carefully lay the vegetable there, put the pickled zander on top, and pour mashed potatoes from olives on it. Its layer should be no more than 1 cm.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake fish in it for 20 minutes.
- While the pike perch is baked, you can make lemon-oil sauce. In a small stewpan, squeeze the juice from two lemons, heat it a little, then add 80 g of butter and begin to actively mix the mass. Bring to a boil and put on the smallest fire, the sauce should simmer for several minutes, then add the second half of the chopped parsley and salt. Bring to taste.
- When the fish is ready, it can be laid out on portioned plates. When serving, pour lemon oil sauce.
A recipe for a delicious dish of pike perch
The method of preparing zander according to this recipe is suitable for nature lovers. In this case, the fish will not bake in the oven or fry in a pan. She is cooking on an open fire. In this case, the pike perch is incredibly tasty and juicy. The peculiarity of the dish is the use of very aromatic ingredients and spices. To prepare zander for a company and five people, you need to take about 2 kg of fish fillet and 150 g of ketchup.
In addition to zander, you should take 100 g of soy sauce, 10 g of fresh ginger, several tablespoons of sesame oil, honey, one lemon, garlic and parsley. It is also advisable to take a few leaves of horseradish - this is not an obligatory ingredient, but it will well enhance the aroma of the dish.
Cooking process
As already reported, it is quite simple to cook zander, so if you follow a simple step-by-step instruction, you will get a wonderful dish for any picnic. So, you need to do the following:
- Cut the fish fillet in portions. Their size can be seen in the following photo.
- You need to take a deep bowl in which to mix: soy sauce, grated ginger, sesame oil, juice of 1 lemon and ketchup. If you like a large number of herbs, then you can buy spices for grilled dishes, they can also be added to a bowl.
- After this, chop the parsley and grate 2 cloves of garlic on a fine grater, put these products also in the marinade. Mix everything very carefully.
- Put the fish in a bowl with marinade and grate it well. Not a single piece should be left without this dressing. Put the fish in the refrigerator for several hours. If the outing was planned in advance, then pickling is best done one day before cooking the fish.
- In the form for cooking fish on the grill, you need to put a few sheets of horseradish, and on top of the pieces of fish. The leaves will give an original aroma and will not allow the product to burn.
- Grilled pike perch is best served with baked vegetables, potatoes and fresh herbs.
If you do not find horseradish leaves, then on the one hand it is better to put a foil, it will protect the pike perch from burning.
Pike perch with vegetables in the oven
A very simple and quick recipe for cooking fish. Moreover, it is suitable for people who are on a diet, because there are no "heavy" foods. The list of ingredients will show certain types of vegetables, but you can take the ones you like the most. In the next photo of a pike perch dish you can see what the final result should be.
Essential Ingredients
To prepare a dish of pike perch in three portions, you need to take 600 g of pure fish fillet, as well as:
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- garlic - 2 pcs.;
- any white wine - 100 ml (inexpensive varieties can be used);
- cream 18% - 30 ml;
- butter;
- tomatoes - a few pieces;
- fennel.
You can also use any other vegetables, for example, asparagus, green peas, corn.
Cooking
A step-by-step recipe for a dish of zander with vegetables, baked in the oven:
- If you bought whole pike perch, then first you need to cut it into clean fillets. To do this, fish must be cleaned, after which a peritoneal incision is made and all entrails are pulled out. Cut off the head, tail and fins. You get a whole carcass, which should be cut along the ridge.
- You will get one clean fillet, the second with bone, it also needs to be carefully separated with a knife from the meat portion. Now, with tweezers, pull out all the bones, rinse the fish thoroughly again. Pike perch is ready for further processing and cooking.
- Cut the fillet in portions, add salt and pepper; seasonings for fish dishes can be used if desired.
- Now you need to chop the vegetables. Fennel and carrots need to be chopped into small pieces, and garlic with thin plastics. Cut tomatoes into slices.
- Take a frying pan, add vegetable oil there, heat a little and toss fennel with carrots. You need to fry on a small fire and constantly monitor so that the oil does not burn out, otherwise the taste of the vegetables will be spoiled and they will lose their beneficial properties.
- When the vegetables are slightly fried, you need to pour the necessary amount of white wine into the pan. You can add a little salt and pepper. After 1-2 minutes pour the cream, simmer everything on the slowest fire for several minutes.
- Now you need to turn on the oven and set the temperature to 200 degrees.
- Take a baking dish, pour ready vegetables on the bottom, gently place portioned pike perch on top, and also put chopped tomatoes.
- Put in the oven for 45 minutes. After this time, the dish will be ready for use.
At the end of cooking, fish with vegetables can be decorated with lemon slices and sprigs of dill. Serve the dish best with boiled rice.
Fried pike perch in a dry pan
The beauty of this dish is that the fish need to be fried in a dry pan in a special food envelope. Pike perch turns out to be incredibly fragrant, since all the smells remain inside the envelope, and are very useful, because frying occurs without a single drop of oil in the pan.
The fish can be fried separately, but it is recommended that it undergo a heat treatment along with topping, in this case, vegetables.
What do you need for cooking
To prepare a meal for three people, you need to take 3 clean fillet of pike perch (if the fish was small), 200 g of cherry tomato, a few tablespoons of capers, carrots, asparagus and bell pepper.
For the marinade, you need to prepare several tablespoons of olive oil, one spoon of plain water, rosemary, thyme and tarragon. If you don’t have such spices at home, you can replace them with any other or buy universal ones called “For fish dishes”.
Marinating and cooking
In this recipe, dishes from pike perch are no longer worth telling how to cut fish, this procedure has already been described in detail in previous recipes. To cook a delicious zander, you need to do the following:
- In a small bowl, mix all the spices and vegetable oil.
- Dip portioned pike perch into the marinade and mix well. Set aside in the refrigerator for several hours.
- When the time allotted for pickling passes, the fish must be removed from the bowl and put in a paper envelope.
- All of the above vegetables should be cut into small slices, and cherry tomatoes cut in half. Put them also in an envelope and add 1-2 tablespoons of water.
- Put a pan with a thick bottom on the fire and set medium heat. No need to pour oil into the pan.
- Fry fish with vegetables, about 5 minutes on each side. If all the products are cut in thick enough pieces, then the cooking time may slightly increase.
This completes the cooking process of this dish. Upon completion, you need to remove all the products from the envelope and place them on portioned plates. You can garnish with a sprig of rosemary and lemon slices. As a side dish, it is best to use spicy boiled rice and a salad of fresh vegetables.
Some tips
When cutting fish, carefully cut the abdominal cavity so as not to touch the gall bladder, which will ruin the taste of the product.
Try to get all the bones, because it is very inconvenient to eat fish when it is bony.
Zander must be cooked over medium heat, otherwise it may become dry and tasteless.
Now you know a lot of different recipes for cooking dishes from pike perch. All of them are quite simple. Pikeperch is a tender fish, so it cooks very quickly, try not to increase the heat treatment time, as you can dry the main product, and the taste of the dish as a whole will be spoiled.