What can be cooked from smoked eel

Many sea and river inhabitants were appreciated by cooks from different countries for their qualities. This fish has a unique taste and is considered very healthy. Delicate and slightly sweet meat is nutritious and is used as an ingredient for a wide range of dishes. What can be cooked from smoked eel will be described in this article.

Variety of dishes

Eels are river and sea. This spicy fish, almost boneless, has been used in cooking of various peoples since ancient times. Smoked eel was used to prepare and prepare appetizers, salads, soups, main dishes. It has a very pleasant taste.

Easiest recipe

For several servings of the dish, simple and casual, but with an original taste and therefore worthy of attention, you should take a glass of rice, three large spoons of soy sauce, one medium eel (0.3-0.4 kg), hot smoked. You can also use pickled ginger and ground black pepper sprigs of herbs for decoration as a spice.

Cooking

1. Boil rice until cooked and recline in a colander. Let’s drain.
2. Add pepper to soy sauce. We spread ginger separately, but you can add it to the sauce.
3. We spread the rice on a large flat dish.
4. Smoked eel is cut into thin plates and laid out on a dish separately from rice, without stirring. You can put it on top. Rice can be pre-poured with soy sauce, or you can serve it separately. Sprinkle with fresh herbs. You can serve the dish on the table.
   

Mix salad

This dish with smoked eel looks appetizing due to the variety of its ingredients. We advise you to try to cook - you will not regret it! Of course, such a dish is festive in nature, and should look grand in terms of decoration (we use greens and lemon slices).

Ingredients: smoked eel (0.3-0.4 kg), a couple of fresh cucumbers, a little olive oil, a couple of sweet peppers (Bulgarian), a handful of sesame seeds, half lemon juice, Peking cabbage - 100 grams, spices and salt.

Cooking

1. Smoked eel (photo above) is cleaned of skin and bones, chopped finely.
2. Fresh cucumbers are chopped thinner by straws.
3. Sweet pepper is cut in semicircles.
4. Cabbage is chopped finely with a special knife.
5. All ingredients are mixed thoroughly, but without extremism, so that the integrity of each cut product is not destroyed.
6. The dish is seasoned with olive oil (if not available, then the use of sunflower oil is acceptable) and juice squeezed from lemon.
7. Final: salt, pepper and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Garnish with sprigs of greens and lemon slices.
   

Rolls

What else to cook from smoked eel? Rolls! They are one of the most popular dishes in the world using this ingredient.

We will need: 1 leaf of noriya (if there are more leaves, we automatically increase the amount of each ingredient), smoked eel - 150 grams, rice for rolls - 150 grams, a bit of wasabi (carefully: spicy!), Sesame seeds, a couple of fresh cucumbers (you can replace avocado with fruit).

Cooking

1. On a special bamboo mat, lay the nori with the rough side up.
2. We put boiled rice in a thin layer , departing from the edge by about one and a half centimeters. This is most conveniently done with hands moistened with cold water.
3. On top of the rice is wasabi, but very carefully! You can go overboard with a habit.
4. Cut the eel and cucumbers into pieces in the form of small bars.
5. We spread the last 2 ingredients in a strip, sprinkle with sesame seeds and roll the rolls.
6. We wet a strip of nori without filling with water and stick to the resulting roll. Thus, he will keep in shape.
7. Serve with ginger pickled and soy sauce.

Mushroom Eel

We will need: 300 grams smoked eel, a bunch of lettuce leaves, 300 grams of champignons, a little olive oil, three medium-sized pickles, a couple of tomatoes, a bunch of green onions, lemon juice, as a spice - paprika, sea salt and ground black pepper.

Cooking

1. We free the eel from the bones and peel. Cut into slices.
2. Cut the mushrooms in a plate and fry in oil.
3. Let’s tear the salad by hand.
4. Dice cucumbers with tomatoes. Cut the onion into pieces 1-1.5 cm in length.
5. Mix everything in a suitable bowl and season with olive oil and lemon juice. Salt and pepper, sprinkle with paprika. Done!

Note: smoked eel calorie content is quite high - 325 units. It depends on how it is processed. Therefore, many salads involving this fish should not be used as diet food. However, smoked eel meat is full of vitamins and minerals, omega-3 acids, which are very beneficial for the human body. In addition, Japanese centenarians from Okinawa traditionally eat some dishes from this phenomenal fish.

Smoked eel soup "Yanagawa nabe"

Smoked eel dishes exist not only in the form of rolls and salads. Recipes for some soups include this ingredient.

We will need: one eel, one bell pepper, zucchini, onion, a little sesame oil, a sauce called Teriyaki, green onion feathers, sesame seeds.

Cooking

1. Pepper, onion and zucchini zucchini cut into strips and fry in vegetable oil. We pour in a passerovka a drop of Teriyaki sauce.
2. Dissolve the Hon-Dashi broth in water and bring to a boil.
3. We put the finely chopped eel in the broth, send the sauté to the same place, pour the egg in and over low heat bring it to a state where it will be delayed.
4. Before serving on the table, first pour a pinch of sesame seeds, then pour in the soup and pour the chopped green onions.