Saltwater fish have long been valued by culinary experts of European countries, because it is endowed with easily digestible protein, vitamins E, A and D, micro and macro elements and fatty acids that can lower blood cholesterol. At the same time, the sea hare is very popular - a fish up to two meters long, which has dense white meat and valuable fat used in medicine.
Most often in supermarkets you can find this product in frozen form, while in the case of repeated freezing, the fish loses its nutritional properties and taste. Therefore, when buying a sea hare, you should not take fillets, it is better to have a whole carcass, cutting of which does not take much time. In this case, the eyes of the fish should be shiny and transparent, and the gills should be red and completely closed.
Due to the fact that the sea hare (fish is also found in fresh water) has not only high nutritional, but also healing properties, it is a valuable product in cooking, so today there are a large number of recipes for its preparation. Consider those that are most often used in cuisines of different countries.
1. Baked hare fish (Russian cuisine recipe)
Ingredients: half a kilogram of fish, two tablespoons of olive oil, one spoon of curry, one carrot, one cucumber, fifty grams of olives and olives, two radishes, herbs, salt and spices.
The cleaned and gutted fish must be rubbed with a mixture of salt, curry and oil, put on the prepared foil and baked in the oven at high temperature for half an hour. The finished sea hare is taken out and covered with foil so that it reaches.
Meanwhile, spirals are cut from carrots, buds from radishes and cucumbers, olives are cut into rings. The fish should be laid out on a large dish, garnished with olives, carrot spirals, flowers from cucumbers and radishes, as well as sprigs of greenery.
2. Sea hare - fish in sauce
Ingredients: a kilogram of fish, one glass of pomegranate juice and broth, one large onion, four cloves of garlic, one paprika, one spoonful of tomato paste, half a glass of nuts, vegetable oil, salt, spices and flour.
The fish is cleaned, washed and dried, then cut into small pieces, roll in flour and fry. Crushed nuts, chopped onions, paprika, garlic, tomato paste, broth and pomegranate juice are mixed and put on a fire to boil. When the sauce boils, they add the sea hare and stew for ten minutes. As a side dish, rice is great for this dish.
3. Sea hare - fish in pots
Ingredients: two steaks of fish, two onions, two potatoes, one carrot, one bunch of green onions, parsley and dill, one hundred grams of cheese, fifty grams of butter, one spoon of oyster sauce, forty grams of olive oil, half a lemon, salt and ground pepper.
From steaks, it is necessary to cut the ridge and the bones and cut them into small squares. Carrots and onions are cut into very small cubes, put all the greens in a bunch and cut it in half, while chopping the lower part and mixing it with onions, pouring juice from half a lemon. The cheese is diced.
Now you need to prepare a dressing. To do this, pour olive oil and sauce into the dishes, add pepper and leave for several minutes.
They put fish in pots, a few pieces of cheese, seven peas of pepper, half of chopped onions and greens, carrots, potatoes, butter, and then the remaining cheese, and then fill in the prepared dressing and put in the oven.
Remember that the sea hare (fish, the recipe for which we already know) has not only excellent taste, but also of great value, as it helps to prevent the development of many diseases.