Fish is healthier than meat. This conclusion was made by Canadian scientists after a series of studies. True, to reduce weight, replacing meat with fish does not make the slightest sense. But those who want to avoid diabetes and keep their heart healthy are advised to include fatty fish dishes in their diet at least twice a week. If you don’t like fish, then you just don’t know how to cook it properly. Even boiled or steam cod can be unusually tasty and refined, if you submit a suitable sauce to it. Today we will show culinary imagination and try out some original recipes.
Do you dream to lose a couple - three kilograms? Then a traditional fish sauce is not for you. Prefer low-fat vegetable-based dressings. Asparagus, spinach and mushrooms are best combined with fish dishes. To prepare a creamy spinach sauce , you will need a package of frozen vegetables, cream 10% 150 ml, one onion. Cumin seeds, pepper and sea salt are recommended as seasoning .
Defrost the spinach, chop the onion finely, pour the vegetables with cream and simmer over low heat until soft. Then we wipe the mixture through a sieve and add spices. If you want the prepared sauce for fish to be thicker, you can dilute a spoonful of flour in warm water and add to the mixture, then boil again.
In a similar way, you can make asparagus or mushroom sauce. Goes well with cream and shallots.
Refined and light French sauce for fish is prepared from asparagus and artichokes, with the addition of cream and white wine. Artichoke bottoms and the top of asparagus shoots are suitable for cooking. Boil the vegetables for 5 minutes, then pour a glass of cream and stew until cooked. The wine is added at the very end, in a thin stream with constant stirring. Add pepper and salt to your taste.
Traditional Polish fish sauce has already made history. It is universal - suitable for dishes of any cooking method. Sauce is being prepared in no time and a side dish is no longer required with this filling. To prepare Polish sauce, you will need boiled eggs, juice of one lemon, half a pack of butter, a bunch of dill, salt and pepper. Chop the eggs as small as possible. It is most convenient to use a ceramic glass with a volume of 300 - 400 ml for this purpose. Just put the eggs in it and work it with a sharp knife. Melt the butter in a saucepan and fill in the eggs, fill with lemon juice and sprinkle with chopped dill.
Fans of culinary experiments can try other ingredients for Polish sauce. For example, capers will add a more spicy taste to the dish. Olives also go well with fish and eggs. Dill seeds will help strengthen the aroma . If you want to shade the taste of the finished dish - add a spoon of red caviar to the sauce. Experimenting with sauces is a pleasure, because they are very difficult to spoil.
The fashionable concept of "fusion" is now firmly entrenched in cooking. An unusual combination of tastes and aromas diversifies our menu and turns an ordinary meal into a real pleasure. We suggest you try the rhubarb marinade, which can be used to stew fish. Grind fresh rhubarb in a blender. Add 2 tbsp. To a glass of finished mashed potatoes. l honey, soy sauce to taste, crushed caraway seeds and dill seeds, finely chopped chili pepper and grated ginger root.
Of course, fish in sour cream sauce is very tasty, but very high in calories. But if you replace sour cream with natural yogurt, it will turn out no less tasty and at the same time it is safe for the waist. For 250 ml of yogurt, you need 2 tbsp. grated horseradish (purchased, from a can), a few capers, grated lemon peel (a teaspoon), a little dill and onion (finely chopped), sea salt, a mixture of black and white pepper. Mix all the ingredients of the sauce in a deep bowl and cool before serving.
Cooking is an entertaining game and any of us can create our own masterpieces in this field. In addition, delicious food is an affordable pleasure, so why refuse yourself this?