TOP 4 recipes with photos of lean fish dishes at home. Cooking secrets. Video recipes.
Fish dishes are especially useful in the winter season, because the body lacks vitamins and nutrients. They will especially help those who observe Great Lent before Easter, when it is important to adhere to all the canons and rules. During the period of fasting, there are non-strict days when it is allowed to eat fish dishes. Therefore, we offer TOP-4 delicious and affordable lean recipes made from fish.
Secrets of cooking fish dishes
- Fish can satisfy the most sophisticated tastes. It is boiled, fried, baked, stewed, grilled. Soups are made from fish, pilaf, sushi, etc.
- Sometimes river fish smells like mud. To remove it, rinse the carcass in cold salted water. You can also add dill greens during the cooking process, which well interrupts any odors.
- Most varieties of fish are juicy, have a loose and delicate structure. Therefore, sometimes when frying in a pan, the meat disintegrates. To prevent this from happening during heat treatment, fry the fish in batter or bake it whole.
- Fry small fish whole, large - cut into pieces of medium size. Otherwise, the crust will begin to dry on the surface, and the meat inside will not be fried yet and will be raw.
Fish cakes with rice
Fish cakes with rice and herbs are juicy, tasty and baked well. This is a simple everyday dish for a delicious family lunch or dinner, which is prepared in literally half an hour. Any type of fish can be used for the recipe.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 89 kcal.
- Servings - 3-4
- Cooking time - 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cod fillet - 400-450 g
- Parsley and dill - several sprigs
- Rice - 70 g
- Flour - for breading cutlets
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Sweet paprika - 1 tsp
- Seasoning for fish - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Salt to taste
Cooking fish cakes with rice:
- Boil the rice in salted water until tender within 20-25 minutes after boiling under a lid.
- Defrost fish fillets at room temperature, wash, dry and mince or grind with a blender.
- Peel the onion, wash and chop finely, and finely chop the greens.
- Add onion, herbs, cooked rice to the minced meat, season with salt, pepper, paprika and fish seasoning.
- Knead the minced meat and beat it off. To do this, lift it up with your hands and throw it back into the bowl with force. Do this about 20-25 times. Beating the minced meat will make it more magnificent, more elastic, it will stick well with cutlets and will not fall apart during heat treatment.
- Brush palms with vegetable oil, shape cutlets and bread in flour.
- Heat the pan with oil well and fry the cutlets for 2, 5-3, 5 minutes on each side until golden brown. Then cover the pan with a lid, turn off the heat and leave to stand for 5-7 minutes.
Fish in batter
Today's gastronomic abundance allows you to cook any kind of fish. The most common way to cook it is frying in a pan. For example, it always turns out juicy and elegant - fried fish in batter.
Ingredients:
- Fish fillet - 500 g
- Vegetable oil to taste
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Milk - 200 ml
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Spices to taste
- Wheat flour - 200 g
Cooking fish in batter:
- Wash the fish fillets, dry with a towel and cut into medium-sized pieces. If you have a whole fish, cut it lengthwise, fillet it and cut out the center bone. Also, the whole carcass can be cut into steaks, and the small fish can be left intact.
- Season the fish fillet with spices, salt and pepper.
- Prepare the batter. To do this, whisk the eggs, salt and milk with a whisk.
- Then add the flour little by little, stirring with a whisk so that there are no lumps.
- Dip the pieces of fish in batter and put on a preheated frying pan with vegetable oil.
- Fry the fish in batter for 5-7 minutes over medium heat, turn it over to the other side and continue to fry for another 5-7 minutes until tender.
Potato zrazy with fish
Lean zrazy with salmon is perfect for a lean table on holidays. They are delicious with a rich spicy filling and classic potato dough. Although you can cook them with any other fish for the filling.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 1 kg
- Flour - 3-4 tablespoons
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Fish - 0.5 kg
- Salt to taste
- Sugar - a pinch
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Refined oil - for frying
Cooking potato zraz with fish:
- Peel the potatoes, cut into pieces and boil. Then mash while still warm to get a soft, non-spreading puree. Season with salt, sugar, flour and knead the potato dough to make it firm but elastic.
- Peel the onion, wash and chop. Saute it until golden brown in a skillet in vegetable oil.
- Wash the fish and boil in salted water until tender. Cool it, cut it into small pieces and combine with the onion. Season with salt, pepper and stir.
- Moisten your hands with water, pinch off 1-1, 5 tbsp. dough and shape into a flat cake 1 cm thick.
- Put the filling on the dough (1, 5 tsp) and form small round or oval zrazki, which roll in flour just before frying. If fried without flour sprinkling, they will stick to the bottom of the pan.
- After breading, let the flour "come to your senses" for 5 minutes at once, spreading them out on a board, so that the flour absorbs moisture, does not crumble in the pan and does not burn.
- Pour oil into a skillet and heat well. Fry the zrazy over medium heat for 5 minutes on each side until golden brown.
Fish balls in the oven
Juicy and soft lean fish balls are equally popular with children and adults. They are easy and quick to prepare, and it is a pleasure to eat them.
Ingredients:
- Fish fillet - 500 g
- White bread (crust) - 150 g
- Milk - 150 g
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Greens (dill, parsley) - 20 g
- Breadcrumbs - 100 g
- Vegetable oil for frying - 100 g
Cooking fish balls in the oven:
- Check fish fillets for pits, if present, remove. Wash it, dry it with a paper towel and twist it through a meat grinder. Also, the fillet can be finely chopped with a knife to make minced meat, then the meatballs will be juicier.
- Soak the bread in milk and twist it through a meat grinder or knead it with your hands.
- Wash the greens and chop finely.
- Add bread crumb, herbs, salt and pepper to the minced fish and stir well.
- Form the minced meat into round meatballs, roll them in breadcrumbs and put on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil.
- Send the fish balls to a preheated oven to 180 ° C and bake for half an hour. Then turn them over to the other side and brown for 5-7 minutes.
