Fish is tasty and healthy. A good fish- better. It sounds trite, but you can't get away from the truth!
What do we know about pink salmon? Yes, there were such canned food in jars in childhood. Dry and not very tasty. Now in many supermarkets, this fish is sold fresh and frozen.
Pink salmon is a member of the salmon family. The closest relatives are chum salmon, sockeye salmon, coho and salmon itself. But unlike other types of red fish, pink salmon is less fat and high-calorie. The fish lives on average 2 years, so the average carcass size is about 70 cm. The maximum weight of the fish reaches 2 kg, but occasionally 5 kg specimens are also found.
Meat salmon fish is an allergenic product, so babies under 1 year of age should not be given pink salmon dishes. But for toddlers from 3 years old and adults, it will only benefit.
Pink salmon. How to choose the right carcass
Pink salmon is sold both cut up and carcass. Cut fish is more expensive, but you won't need to gut it. About 1/3 of the carcass goes to waste. But it is easier to establish its freshness by whole fish.
Choosing pink salmon:
1. Inspect the carcass carefully. It should be silvery, without yellow or gray spots, streams of fat.
2. Don't buy glazed fish. The ice shell can tighten up to 1/3 of the weight of the carcass. Pink salmon is important to you, not melt water.
3. If the carcass is with a head, then inspect the gills. In good fish, they are bright pink or red. Darkened, slimy or green gills are a sign of a spoiled product.
4. Frozen fish will always have dull eyes. So don't rely on them.
5. Condition of the tail and fins. If they are whole, then the fish is fresh and has not been thawed and re-frozen. A carcass with broken fins is best avoided.
6. The meat should be a uniform pink color. If the flesh is white, then the fish is frozen and the dish will turn out dry and tasteless.
7. Commercial fishing starts in September. Therefore, if in May they tell you that pink salmon is fresh, then they blatantly lie to you.
Pink salmon in sauce. General principles of preparation
Pink salmon is a picky product. It will be appropriate in baked form, and fried, and stewed with various sauces, and boiled, and on the grill. It is difficult to spoil even an inexperienced hostess.
To cook pink salmon in sauce you will need:
Knife and cutting board;
Ingredients for the sauce according to the recipe. It can be wine, cream, butter, onions, carrots, tomatoes, nuts and so on;
Favorite vegetable oil without a pronounced smell and taste;
Frying pan, stewpan, baking dish;
Stove, oven;
Spoon, spatula.
Pink salmon in sauce. Sour cream and cheese - a budget option
It's inexpensive homemade dish on every day. It takes only 30 minutes to cook - 15 minutes to prep and 15 minutes to bake.
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - 4 steaks;
Favorite cheese - Russian, Lithuanian, Bukovinian, it will be appropriate processed cheese;
250 ml of water;
30 g of sour cream;
5 g flour;
Salt pepper;
Sugar - if sour cream is too sour - to taste.
Cooking technology:
1. Wash the fish, salt, pepper, send it to a baking dish.
2. Prepare the sauce. Salt sour cream, pepper, add flour. Add warm water and mix thoroughly.
3. Pour sauce over pink salmon.
4. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and sprinkle the fish in the sauce. Send the mold to the oven.
5. Temperature - 180 degrees, baking time - 15 minutes.
The fish is laid out on a dish. Garnish - mashed potatoes or potato-pumpkin puree, baked vegetables, boiled rice, pasta, boiled beans or peas, mashed beans. Pink salmon is in perfect harmony with many products.
This recipe is basic. If you want to feel like in Italy, then replace sour cream with cream, add parmesan or grano padano, herbs Italian cuisine. For garnish, boil linguine, fusilli, rigatoni - any pasta! Long live Italy!
Let's leave the cream, take blue cheese, herbs of Provencal cuisine - and you are in France. And serve pink salmon mashed potatoes, ratatouille or gratin, fry the mushrooms and you are on the Cote d'Azur!
Pink salmon in sauce. Sour cream, garlic and nuts
We take the previous recipe as a basis. But in sour cream sauce should be added 2 cloves of garlic and 50 g of chopped walnut kernels.
You will get a delicious rich dish with Georgian flavor. If you are lucky and you have purchased Suluguni or Chanakh cheese, or Imereti cheese, you will have a real masterpiece! Ready meal decorate with greens - parsley, cilantro or tarragon!
Pink salmon in sauce. Plum Tkemali
We continue our journey through Georgia. Tkemali sauce can be used ready-made, but if you have a crop of plums, then it is better to use home product.
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - steak or fillet - 400 g;
Sour cream - 5 tbsp. spoons;
Salt pepper;
Tkemali sauce - 5 tbsp. l.;
Cheese - 50 g;
Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
Cooking technology:
1. Salt and pepper the steaks and place in a baking dish.
2. Brush with Tkemali sauce.
3. Cut the tomatoes into circles and put on the fish.
4. Brush with sour cream and sprinkle with grated cheese.
5. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
Serve the dish with vegetable salad, pieces of pita bread. It will help create the Georgian flavor of lobio from beans or peas.
Pink salmon in sauce. Tomatoes and green peas
Pink salmon meat is different low content fat. Therefore, there is always a chance that the dish will turn out to be a bit dry. Tomato sauce will provide piquancy and juiciness to fish. Polka dots add a joyful green color.
A dish from the series is simple and straight to the point. It takes only 20 minutes to cook. If you want to complicate and add colors, then give yourself another 10 extra minutes.
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - 1 steak per serving;
Tomato juice or puree - 1 cup;
Frozen green peas or from a jar - how much is not a pity;
Dry basil or oregano
Cooking technology:
1. Wash the fish, salt, pepper, add herbs.
2. Put pink salmon into the mold, pour tomato juice.
3. Spread the green peas randomly on the fish.
4. Send the form to the ovens. The fish will languish at a temperature of 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
5. If you want to complicate the recipe and make the dish more saturated, then fry the onions and chopped carrots first. Pour in tomato juice and sweat on the stove for 5 minutes. Pour sauce over fish and add green peas. And 15 minutes in the oven.
Great addition to pink salmon green peas there will be mashed potatoes, boiled rice, pasta.
Pink salmon in sauce. Mushrooms and sour cream
Mushrooms and fish - you say, raising your eyebrows skeptically. And why not actually. These products go great with each other.
Pink salmon in champignon and sour cream sauce can be cooked in 2 ways:
1. Fish and sauce are prepared separately. Pink salmon is boiled or fried and heated in a prepared sauce before serving.
2. Raw fish poured with sauce and baked in the oven.
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - fillet or steaks - 600 g;
Mushrooms - porcini, champignons, oyster mushrooms can be taken separately, but the mushroom mix is more interesting - 200 g;
Onion, leek, shallot - which is not a pity - 1 pc.;
Flour - 4 tbsp. spoons;
Paprika;
Garlic - 1 clove;
Favorite herbs;
Black pepper;
Vegetable oil;
Sour cream or cream - 150-200 g.
Cooking technology:
1. Cut the onion, garlic and mushrooms.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the pan and fry the onion and garlic. Add mushrooms. Salt, pepper, add herbs and paprika.
3. If there is no time, then pour the mushrooms with sour cream and add flour. Mix thoroughly. If there is enough time, then pre-fry the flour in a dry frying pan until creamy. And then add it to the sauce.
4. Simmer the sauce on the stove for 5 minutes.
5. Clean the fish, salt and pepper. Pour in the sauce and simmer in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.
6. Or lower the pre-fried pink salmon into mushroom sauce and heat over low heat for 5 minutes.
You can serve pink salmon in sauce with mushrooms on slices of fried bread and green salad. But mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, and just boiled potatoes in their skins are harmoniously combined with this dish. Boil the pasta - get the Italian variation. Rice, hominy, bulgur or trendy polenta - it all depends on the desire of the hostess!
Pink salmon in sauce. Cream and cognac
The recipe will do for everyone - for children, and for adults, and for pregnant girls. Alcohol from cognac during cooking will evaporate, only aroma and taste will remain. noble drink.
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - fillet or steaks - 400 g;
Cognac - 100 ml;
Cream - 150 ml;
Flour - 2 tsp;
Butter - 50 g;
Salt pepper.
Cooking technology:
1. Cut the fish into portions, salt, pepper, fry.
2. Prepare roux. To do this, melt butter in a frying pan, add flour and brew a sticky dough.
3. Gradually, with constant stirring, add cream and cognac to the roux. Warm up the sauce.
4. Put the fish on a dish, pour over the sauce.
Serve with any side dish. But if you want real French charm, then let grapes and pear slices burn on fire. A glass of white wine and dinner was a success!
Pink salmon in oriental sauce
Look at the inhabitants of the Far East - Japan, China, South Korea! They do not age for a long time and retain vitality. Doctors and scientists say seafood and soy sauce are to blame.
The former are rich in minerals and omega acids, easily digestible proteins, but at the same time low in calories. The second is made from soy, which contains a large number of phytoestrogens. That is why oriental beauties can boast perfect skin without wrinkles!
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - fillet or steak - 200 g per serving;
Soy sauce for pickling;
Cream - 2 tbsp. spoons per serving.
Cooking technology:
1. Cut the fish into portions.
2. Send pink salmon to the mold and pour soy sauce. Don't be afraid to spill! The fish will take as much salt as it needs. There will be no peresal!
3. Forget about the form for 30 minutes. Let the pink salmon marinate!
4. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cover the fish with foil and place in the oven.
5. Dilute sour cream with soy sauce to taste.
6. After 15 minutes, remove the foil from the mold, grease the fish with sour cream and soy topping and send to the oven for another 5 minutes.
boil long rice. It should turn out crumbly. Put a side dish on a dish, and baked fish on rice.
Pink salmon with sauce. Potatoes and bechamel
Side dish and main course at the same time.
Ingredients:
Pink salmon - 600 g;
Potatoes - 5 pcs.;
Cream - 1 cup - adjust the fat content yourself. Perfect option use milk;
Flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
Salt pepper;
Cheese - 100 g.
Cooking technology:
1. Cut the fish, season with spices.
2. Cut the potatoes into thin rings and boil until half cooked.
3. Prepare bechamel sauce. Melt butter in a frying pan, add flour. Mix thoroughly and the roux is ready.
4. Add milk or cream in small portions to the roux while stirring constantly. If lumps remain in the sauce, then wipe it through a sieve.
5. Put a layer of potatoes in a baking dish, put pink salmon. Pour sauce over, sprinkle with cheese and bake for 15 minutes. Oven temperature 180 degrees.
Put the pink salmon and potatoes on a plate. Decorate with your favorite herbs.
Cooking salmon in sauce is easy. This fish is unpretentious and it is difficult to spoil it. She willingly makes friends with any herbs, spices and additives. The main thing is to buy high-quality fish and ingredients for the sauce.
If you need to cook dinner and do a whole bunch of important things in parallel, then the best way out is baked dishes. A little time to prepare the products, and the oven will do the rest for you. Baked fish is very tasty, and red fish is amazingly tasty. This is exactly what pink salmon in cream turns out to be: juicy, tender and fragrant.
Ingredients:
● Pink salmon (whole fillet) - 1 piece
●Lemon - 1/2 piece
● Ground black pepper - to taste
● Cream (15–20% fat content) - 400 ml
● Greens - to taste
●Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
●Salt - to taste
Cooking:
1. For cooking, you can use fresh fillet pink salmon or frozen. If you took frozen, then you must first defrost it: leave the fillet at room temperature for about an hour. The fillet should be cut into small pieces. Wash them and dry them with a paper towel.
2. You can choose greens for pink salmon to your taste. Parsley, dill, and oregano will do. Wash and finely chop the greens, put each type in a separate bowl or small plate. If fresh herbs are not available, dried herbs are also suitable, or use a set of spices for fish.
3. Pink salmon itself is rather dry, so it is rarely fried, it is better to bake it. Pour olive oil into a baking dish, lay out the pink salmon fillet, squeeze it onto it lemon juice(so that all the pieces get it), salt, add black pepper and leave to stand for 10-15 minutes. In the meantime, turn on the oven, let it warm up to 200 degrees. Fill the salmon with cream. Cream will make pink salmon very tender, and no dryness. It will turn out very juicy.
Now we fall asleep fish in cream with herbs. Of course, the greens will dry out a little during the baking process, but pink salmon will turn out to be very fragrant, with a special taste. If baked only in cream, the taste will be much simpler. So, put the form with the fish in a preheated oven and bake for 30-40 minutes, depending on the thickness and size of the pieces.
Cream under the influence of high temperature will thicken, fill with the aroma of herbs - it will turn out delicious sauce. Leave the finished pink salmon in cream to cool slightly, about 10 minutes. All is ready.
4. Just as you can’t hide an awl in a bag, you can’t hide the process of baking pink salmon in cream from households. Surely everyone has already gathered for the aroma flowing from the kitchen. Set the table and arrange the fish on plates.
Bon appetit!
Adviсe:
- If you don’t like greens, fill the fish with cream and bake, and 5 minutes before cooking, add grated hard cheese (if the oven has a “grill” mode, you can make a crispy cheese crust).
– Best Supplement to pink salmon in cream - boiled vegetables, for example, black Eyed Peas or broccoli.
- You can marinate pink salmon fillet in lemon marinade will be even tastier. Take half a glass of cold boiled water, add the juice of half a lemon, salt to taste, pepper - mix, you get a marinade. Put the dried pink salmon fillet in a bowl, pour over the marinade and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Then take the fish out of the marinade, let it drain and bake the fillets as described.
Red fish is very useful for human body, so it should periodically appear in our diet. It is widely used in cooking. From this product, a lot of delicious and nutritious meals. After reading today's publication, you will learn how pink salmon is baked in cream.
Classic variant
The dish prepared according to the recipe below is surprisingly tender and juicy. Due to the abundance of spices, it has an unusual aroma. This time in your kitchen you should definitely find:
- A whole carcass of pink salmon.
- Half a lemon.
- 400 milliliters of cream 20% fat.
- Tablespoon olive oil.
The most commonly used spices are table salt, oregano, dill and parsley.
Action algorithm
Pre-thawed fish is washed in cold water, blot with paper napkins, cut portioned pieces and pour generously with juice squeezed from half a lemon. After that, it is laid out in a refractory form, greased with olive oil, salted, peppered and left for twenty minutes.
After this time, pink salmon is poured with cream, sprinkled with chopped herbs and sent to the oven. Bake it at two hundred degrees for about forty minutes. This fish is served with boiled vegetables.
Variant with broccoli
This recipe will be a real find for young housewives who are thinking about how to feed their family. Fish prepared in this way can be served for lunch or dinner. It turns out not only very fragrant, but also incredibly useful. In order for cream to hit the table on time, you need to buy everything in advance necessary ingredients. IN this case you will need:
- A kilo of fish.
- 300 grams of broccoli.
- 250 milliliters of 10% cream.
- A pinch of dried rosemary.
- Salt and ground pepper.
Also, make sure you have some olive oil on hand when you need it. It will be needed to lubricate the form in which pink salmon in cream will be baked.
Process description
We note right away that for the preparation of this dish, you can use not only fillets, but also small steaks. Pre-thawed fish is washed in cold water, blotted with paper towels, salted, peppered and sprinkled with thyme. The pink salmon prepared in this way is laid out in a mold, the bottom of which is pre-lubricated a small amount olive oil and set aside.
Broccoli is boiled in lightly salted water, thrown into a colander and sent to the fish. All this is poured with cream and tasted. If necessary, salt the dish and cover with foil. Pink salmon is baked in cream in an oven heated to two hundred degrees. After about half an hour, fish with broccoli can be served at the table.
Variant with mushrooms
This recipe is relatively quick and easy to prepare. tasty dish, which will become worthy decoration almost any holiday table. For you to get tender pink salmon in cream, you need to make sure that all the required components are present in your kitchen. In this case, you should have at hand:
- Half a kilo of fish fillet.
- 250 grams of champignons.
- A pair of medium heads of onions.
- 100 milliliters of cream.
- Sweet bell pepper.
- 150 grams of any hard cheese.
So that pink salmon in cream, baked in the oven, does not turn out fresh and tasteless, the above list should be supplemented table salt and black pepper.
Cooking technology
First you need to fish. It is washed in cool water, wiped dry with paper towels and cut into small pieces. The pink salmon prepared in this way is placed in a mold, the bottom of which is smeared with any vegetable oil, salt and pepper.
On top of the fish, onion cut into half rings, pieces bell pepper and mushrooms. All vegetables must be sprinkled with a little salt and spices. After that, cream is poured into the mold and sent at a temperature of ten degrees for fifteen minutes. After that, it is removed from oven, sprinkle with grated cheese and return back. After about ten minutes, pink salmon in cream will be covered with a beautiful golden brown, indicating that the dish can be served at the table.
