Black sea mackerel: recipes

Black Sea horse mackerel is a wonderful fish, from which you can cook a lot of festive and everyday dishes. In our article we want to offer a number of the most popular recipes.

Horsefish mackerel: ingredients

If you bought a good fish, then you definitely need to cook an ear from it. For such purposes, Black Sea horse mackerel is quite suitable. The recipes for such fish are so simple that even an inexperienced housewife can handle them.

It should be noted that the ear is prepared from the most common ingredients, but it turns out very tasty.

Ingredients:

1. One and a half liters of water.
2. Horse mackerel - 0.8 kg.
3. Potatoes - 5 pieces.
4. One carrot.
5. Allspice.
6. One onion.
7. Black pepper.
8. Greens (dill, parsley, cilantro).
9. Butter - 20 grams.
10. Bay leaf.

Cooking fish soup

The fish must be cleaned of the insides and bones by removing the ridge. Cut it into portioned pieces. Pour one and a half liters of water into the pan, bring to a boil, then add tail, head and ridge. Next, put the allspice, black, one onion and bay leaf. We cook it for twenty minutes, and then filter it. Cut the potatoes into cubes and add to the broth.

Meanwhile, lightly fry finely chopped carrots in vegetable oil. We send portioned fish slices, carrots to the broth and bring to a boil. Do not forget to remove the foam. Reduce the heat, add salt and then continue to cook for another twenty minutes on a small fire. We do not cover the pan with a lid. It is not worth disturbing the ear, since you can violate the integrity of the pieces of fish. A few minutes before the end of cooking you need to add oil, this will give the ear fat content. When serving fish soup on the table, sprinkle it with fresh herbs and let it brew for a couple of minutes.

Fried horse mackerel

Black Sea trout is good in fried form. If you do not know how to cook it, then we will share with you the recipe. Black Sea mackerel, as a rule, is small in size, and therefore roasted quickly enough. The basic rule is good fish cleaning. As a side dish, you can serve potatoes, rice, as well as salad.

Ingredients:

1. Salt.
2. Horse mackerel - 1.5 kg.
3. Half a glass of flour.
4. Vegetable oil for frying.

The purchased fish must be thoroughly cleaned and gutted, then washed and salted. Leave it to lie down a bit so that the salt penetrates into the meat.

Next, put the pan on the fire, pour oil and let it heat. Roll each fish piece in flour and put in a pan. The fish is fried on all sides until a golden crust appears. Put the finished pieces on a paper towel so that the excess oil is gone. That's all, Black Sea horse mackerel is ready.

Baked fish

When thinking over the question of how to cook Black Sea horse mackerel, do not forget that, like any fish, you can bake it. This cooking option is perhaps the easiest. If you bought a lot of fish, then you should not prepare a side dish for it, serve horse mackerel as an independent dish with lemon and olives or with a salad of vegetables.

Ingredients:

1. Horse mackerel - 1.5 kg.
2. Salt.
3. Refined oil.
4. Seasonings for fish.
5. One lemon.
6. Rosemary - one twig.

We clean the fish, wash it, cut off the head and take out the insides. Then salt, sprinkle with spices and sprinkle with lemon juice. Then cover the baking sheet with parchment, grease it with butter, put the pieces of fish and sprinkle with rosemary. Bake in the oven for twenty minutes at a temperature of two hundred degrees.

Horse mackerel soup

Black Sea horse mackerel (recipes offered by us are very simple) - a good fish. Beautiful first courses are prepared from it. Earlier we figured out how the ear is prepared. Now I want to offer a recipe for making soup. Yes Yes! It’s soup with horse mackerel. It turns out delicious and satisfying. This dish is taken from Bulgarian cuisine.

For cooking, you will need the simplest products.

Ingredients:

1. Canned Tomatoes - 0.7 kg.
2. Two or three horse mackerels.
3. One bow.
4. Garlic.
5. One carrot
6. Potatoes - 4-5 pieces.
7. Spices, salt, vegetable oil.

Defrost trevally, mine. We clean all the vegetables for the soup. Cut onions, carrots and open a jar of tomatoes. Next, pieces of fish need to be boiled in a small amount of salted water. Add a parsley branch to the broth and cook for about ten minutes, then remove the fish and let it drain. Meanwhile, in a pan, fry the onions and carrots. Then add canned tomatoes with juice, stew all the vegetables for about twenty minutes.

We separate the mackerel meat from the seeds and tear it into small pieces. Now in the fish stock we put pieces of fish, stewed vegetables, potatoes. Cook soup for thirty minutes over low heat. A couple of minutes before cooking, add herbs, garlic and spices. The soup is ready!

For this dish it is worth using Bulgarian seasonings, they go well with fish and give a wonderful aroma.

Horse Mackerel Salad

Black sea horse mackerel (photo is given in the article) is good for making salads. The famous "Mimosa", as a rule, is prepared during the New Year holidays, but no one bothers to prepare such a salad at any other time, especially since it is quite simple to make it.

However, our recipe is slightly different from the classic version. We will not use onions and potatoes, but will replace them with onion feathers and rice.

Ingredients:

1. Canned or hot smoked scad - 300 grams.
2. Half a glass of rice.
3. Five eggs.
4. Onion greens.
5. Four carrots.
6. Salt.
7. Black pepper (ground).
8. Mayonnaise - a pack.

Prepare all the ingredients, boiling them. If you use canned horse mackerel for cooking, then you need to knead it with a fork. If the fish is smoked, it needs to be cleaned and cut into small pieces.

Take a deep salad bowl, grease the bottom with mayonnaise and lay on top the rice, which also needs to be greased. Next, put fish on top, a layer of greenery on it, do not forget to coat each layer with mayonnaise. Then we sprinkle everything with grated proteins on top, and put crushed boiled carrots on them. When all layers are laid, smeared with mayonnaise, sprinkled with pepper, you can decorate the salad with grated yolks on top. Then we send the dish to the refrigerator so that all layers are saturated.

Instead of an afterword

In our article we have given only the most basic options for the preparation of Black Sea horse mackerel. In fact, there are many recipes. If you have never eaten this fish, try one of our dishes, you may become a fan of horse mackerel.