Cod on the protein content in it is not inferior to white varieties of meat. In addition, it is rich in iodine, easily digestible, contains niacin and B12. Dietary fish, therefore, is often included in the diet of children and patients on a strict diet. To the question of what to cook from cod, you can give, perhaps, at least one thousand interesting answers. The best way to make a full and tasty dinner is to bake cod in the oven. Most often, to prevent the dishes from drying out, the fish is wrapped in foil or covered with greens and other products, but we suggest covering it with a more complex mixture. This recipe proposes to cook cod with the addition of white fruit wine and cheese.
Ingredients:
- fresh cod, fillet - 800 gr;
- fruit white wine - 1 glass;
- hard noble cheese - 100 g;
- pickled olives - 130 g;
- purple basil - 8 branches;
- sour cream or fat cream - 500 g;
- dill - 100 g;
- onion-turnip - 3 large and strong onions;
- sea salt, white pepper, French mustard.
You can prepare cod in the following way:
1. Defrost and wash the fish. With a sharp and long knife, cut the dorsal and ventral fins, remove the insides, head and tail. Carefully cut the ridge without cutting the carcass in half. From the outside and inside, cut it and rub the cod with salt.
2. Prepare the marinade from wine, French mustard, salt, four sprigs of basil and pepper. The brine does not need to be heated. Put fish in it for thirty minutes.
3. At the bottom of a cast-iron and deep pan, lay the pickled fish, cover it with a layer of fresh, chopped onion, and then pour the marinade.
4. After all preparations, you will need to bake cod in the oven until half ready. Depending on the size of the carcasses, the baking period varies from fifteen minutes to half an hour.
5. Pour hot fish with sour cream, add olives, the remaining basil and again send to the oven for about ten minutes.
6. When the sour cream is curdled, the dish is generously sprinkled with hard cheese, some dill greens are added and sent back to the oven.
7. The finished dish is served in combination with fresh vegetables and remaining greens, as well as quality wine.
The dish turns out to be very tender and aromatic, creamy fish just melts in your mouth. Cod in white wine cream and cheese will become the highlight of any festive, culinary program, and guests will note the art and efforts of the hostess. You can bake cod in the oven in a slightly different way by modifying the recipe in your own way.
For example, a white wine marinade can be successfully replaced with a no less original and aromatic composition. Two glasses of water purified through a charcoal filter are poured into the pan, and then boiled. Peas, peas, bay leaves, three tablespoons of sugar and two small iodized salt, as well as white mustard seeds are dipped in water . Before the end of cooking, crushed garlic cloves and horseradish chopped into small sticks are lowered into the marinade. Filter the brine, cool it to a temperature of sixty degrees and fill it with prepared fish. You can add a little vinegar or a few tablespoons of lime and lemon juice to the marinade.
If there is no time to prepare the marinade, and it is necessary to bake cod in the oven, then the fish can be soaked in soy sauce. However, it should be remembered that it is not worth more than ten minutes to keep cod in such an aggressive and extremely salty environment, and it is better to add ordinary purified water to the pan. All spices should be placed in the pan only at the end of cooking.
The best side dish for such a fish would be fresh rice or boiled green peas. In any case, the side dish should be fresh, light and non-nutritious, in addition, it should contain a high proportion of fiber. As a drink, fish is served with fruit compote, wine or green tea.