Fried hake is a simple everyday dish without any special frills. Just 20 minutes and a hearty dish is ready. In fact, this is probably the easiest way to cook this type of fish. So let's cook it.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Hake is a relatively affordable and cheap fish, which is why housewives often include it in their daily diet. It is welcomed by every family budget, and it turns out to be quite tasty. The simplest and most favorite time-tested recipe is fried hake. This is the most trivial frying used by almost every housewife. It turns out the food is delicious, soft, and besides, there are no tricks in cooking. But for beginners, even this simple meal can be a daunting challenge. It is for them that this recipe is dedicated.
Fried hake will suit any side dish: mashed potatoes, boiled pasta, or just a fresh vegetable salad. It is worth noting that hake is a very useful fish, and most importantly, it is not bony, it has very few small bones that can get stuck in the throat. Yes, and it is accepted that the fish is not very fatty.
You can fry hake in different ways: on its own, breaded in flour, breadcrumbs or egg batter. Today we will fry the fish in egg batter and breadcrumbs. The products will protect the contents from drying out during frying, which will keep the fish tender and juicy. At the same time, a crust forms on the outside, which will delight lovers of crunching.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 105 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Hake - 2 carcasses
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Ground crackers - 100 g
- Seasoning for fish - 1 tsp
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step by step preparation of fried hake in breadcrumbs:
1. Place the egg in a deep wide bowl, add seasoning for fish, salt and a pinch of ground pepper.
2. Stir the egg mass with a whisk or fork. You do not need to beat it with a mixer, you just need to shake it up.
3. Pour crumbs into a wide flat plate and spread over the entire bottom. You can cook rusks yourself, by drying the bread and chopping it with a blender, or buy ready-made in the store.
4. Defrost the hake by this time, because in our latitudes, this fish is usually sold frozen. Then rinse it under running water, cut off the fins and tail, and also remove the inner black film located on the abdomen. Dry the hack with a paper towel and place in a plate with egg batter. Turn the fish over several times so that it is covered with the egg mass on all sides.
5. While the fish is in the egg liquid, quickly transfer it to the ground crackers and turn over several times to completely cover the fish. If you like a very crispy fish crust, you can repeat the procedure: dip it into egg batter and transfer to ground crackers.
6. By this time, split the pan with vegetable oil well, as the fish should be fried only in well-heated oil. Then put the hake into it.
7. For the first 2 minutes, fry the fish over high heat, then turn the carcass over to the back side and also keep for 2 minutes. Then it will be covered with a ruddy crust and retain all the juice in itself. After that, screw the temperature to medium mode and fry the hake on each side for 5 minutes, so that it reaches the desired consistency inside. Serve the prepared fish hot to the table. Top it with cranberry sauce or lemon juice, if desired.
See also a video recipe on how to cook breaded fried hake.
