Catfish is a fish of the perch family; its meat contains vitamins A, B, D and many other useful components, including riboflavin, thiamine. When preparing a catfish, do not forget about the features of this fish. Firstly, at home it quickly deteriorates - in the refrigerator it can stand no more than a day, and in the freezer - no more than a month. In addition, thawed fish loses some of its properties and taste. Secondly, a catfish fried in a pan easily turns into some kind of fish sauce - under the influence of high temperature this, already soft, almost boneless fish, quickly loses its shape. If you want to fry it, then before that you will need to soak the fish in a solution with a high salt content. There are many ways to cook catfish, consider one of them - how to prepare catfish in the oven.
For cooking, you need two and a half kilograms of fish itself, about three hundred grams of hard cheese, three pieces of onions and a pound of mayonnaise. Catfish in the oven is prepared in this way. Defrost the fish, rinse it, after washing, dry it with clean, dry napkins. Cut into large pieces. Grind cheese and onions, mix grated cheese with onions and mayonnaise. Then put the chopped catfish in this mixture and leave it for about twenty minutes to marinate in such a sauce. While the fish is pickling, you can heat the oven. Catfish in the oven is baked until cooked at a temperature of about 190 ° C. As already mentioned, catfish meat is very soft and quickly deformed, especially at high temperatures, so you should not keep it in the oven more than you need. The catfish in the oven will stand for about half an hour or a little more. After that, it can be served.
Now we will consider how catfish is prepared in batter. This is one of the most popular ways to cook this fish. The catfish will be tastier if you prepare a side dish for it. To do this, you will need three tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, vegetable oil and honey (one tablespoon each), about half a teaspoon of salt, three hundred grams of carrots, grated straws, one piece of green bell pepper.
Mix apple cider vinegar, vegetable oil and salt in a bowl and beat until a homogeneous mixture, then add carrots and pepper, mix again. The side dish is ready, but that's not all. To prepare the catfish itself in batter, you will need several slices of bacon, about a third of a glass of cornmeal, a tablespoon of wheat flour, a half teaspoon of salt, one eighth teaspoon of ground red pepper, a large egg and about 200 g of catfish fillet. Fry the bacon in a pan until golden brown, fat should drain from it, in which you will fry the fish. Mix both types of flour, ground pepper and salt, it is best to do this on a piece of parchment paper. Beat the egg. Having dipped pieces of fish in it, roll them in the resulting mixture of flour and spices. The fat obtained from frying the bacon, reheat in a pan and fry the fish in it until a golden crust appears on it. The fried bacon can be cut into pieces and sprinkled with fish. After that, your catfish in batter is ready, you can serve it on the table.
Like catfish, pike perch has white, tender and soft meat. Pike perch also belongs to the perch family. There are many ways to cook pikeperch - cutlets, rolls, ear, pudding. Consider one of them - cooking zander in the oven.
Pike perch is not only a very tasty fish, but also a dietary product with minimal fat content. Even those people whose diet is severely limited can eat zander dishes . Therefore, cooking zander in the oven is a good culinary solution for your table. There are many recipes for cooking in the oven. Here is one of them.
You will need the following products: about a pound of pike perch fillet, 200 g of potatoes, 4 carrots, two tablespoons of breadcrumbs, 400 grams of sour cream, 60 g of butter, to taste - salt and black pepper. Cut the zander fillet into small pieces and rub them with salt and pepper. Then put the chopped fillet in a pot. Cut the potatoes into thin circles and pour into this pot, sprinkle breadcrumbs on top and sprinkle with butter. Cooking zander in the oven takes about 30 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C, until a brown crust appears on the fish.
Enjoy your meal.