Sturgeon is considered a fish worthy of the royal table. And it is no coincidence, because it has many useful substances that have a beneficial effect on the human body. White meat, which is commonly called red, has virtually no bones; they are replaced by cartilage, which can be eaten. The sturgeon recipe in the oven is the most popular among cooks, as the fish is tasty, and it is prepared quickly and simply.
Sturgeon in its own juice
To prepare the dish, a whole fish is taken. Sturgeon must be washed, cleaned and gutted. Take food foil and grease with any oil. Place fish on it, salt, pepper, wrap, so that it is not possible for the juice to flow out during frying, lay on a baking sheet and put in the oven. Cooking time will be 40-50 minutes. Sturgeon baked in the oven in this way retains all its healthy fats, it turns out to be juicy and tastes very similar to chicken meat. It is a low-calorie product and may well be used as a dietary dish.
You can slightly change the taste of the dish if the fish is pre-stuffed with vegetables. Most often, onions and carrots are taken for these purposes. Onions crumble in half rings, fried in vegetable oil. The carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater and also fried. Be sure to salt them during the frying process, then they turn out tastier. Stir fried onions and carrots and stuff the sturgeon’s abdominal cavity with them. Wrap in foil and bake. This is how sturgeon baked in the oven with vegetables is cooked. Mushrooms or nuts can be added to onions and carrots, if desired.
Recipes without foil
The sturgeon, baked whole in the oven, can be cooked open, then you get a beautiful crust, which is decorated with white sauces and lemon when served.
In such cases, it is advisable to bake the fish on a vegetable pad. For these purposes, potatoes are perfect, especially since it is considered the right side dish for fish.
Wash, peel, and chop a kilogram of potatoes in thin circles. Lay them on a greased sheet and sprinkle with salt. Place salted and pepper sturgeon on top, grease it with a thin layer of mayonnaise or fish sauce and put in the oven to bake for 50 minutes.
Baked sturgeon in the oven, can be cooked without a vegetable pillow. You can just grease it with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated cheese, and then bake. For this purpose, you can use a batter or an egg. Then the fish can be cleaned of a thick skin, which is difficult to chew even after long cooking. Dip the freshened fish in flour, then in a beaten egg and send to bake on a baking sheet.
The batter is made from eggs and flour. It should be thick enough not to drain from the fish, but not so much as to bake with a stale crust. You can add a little soda to it so that the batter remains soft.
Sturgeon slices
You can cook sturgeon baked in the oven in pieces. To do this, fish should be washed, cleaned, gutted, halved and the ridge removed. Then carefully peel off the skin and cut the fillet into pieces 2-3 cm wide.
On a baking sheet, lay a layer of chopped onions, then potatoes, coated with mayonnaise sauce. To prepare it, take mayonnaise and mix with chopped fresh herbs. Then lay part of the fish, on it another layer of onions, and again the fish. Cover with potatoes, generously sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven for an hour.
Get a kind of layer cake from potatoes with fish. Serve it should be cut into 10 by 10 cm squares, decorating the plate with green lettuce leaves, and lay a few rings of red or yellow bell pepper on top of the “pie”. Lemon slices and fresh tomato are considered to be a great addition to and decoration of sturgeon dishes .