White fish is one of the most healthy foods. It is freely sold in markets and in stores. Many housewives often cook only hake from this type of fish. But there are still many delicious dishes prepared from different representatives of this class.
The meat of such fish is distinguished by its dietary qualities. It is easily digested and contains many trace elements and vitamins.
White fish names
Before proceeding to the description of recipes, you must first familiarize yourself with the assortment that can be used for dishes. Almost everyone had heard these names of white fish, but few know that from the listed inhabitants of the underwater world you can cook delicious and original food. It:
- flounder;
- halibut;
- tilapia;
- cod;
- hake;
- striped bass.
Many housewives meet these representatives in large stores for sale, but do not risk buying them, because they do not quite understand how to cook them.
Cod under cheese
This species of white fish is unpopular in Russia. This is due to the fact that it does not live in our latitudes and is more expensive than freshwater in value. But nevertheless, the dishes from it are tasty and healthy.
Cod has a dense meat that does not come apart during cooking. It is best to bake this white fish in the oven.
For cooking, defrost 4 pcs. cod fillet and rinse well. Check for bones, if any, remove them. Grease the baking dish with butter.
Put white fish fillet on the bottom. Grate 200 g of cheese (preferably cheddar) on a large nozzle. Mix with him 1 tbsp. l French mustard and 5 tbsp. l nonfat cream. The sauce is salted. Black pepper can also be added to taste.
This dressing is poured into a fish in a mold and put in a preheated oven at 200 ° C. After 20-25 minutes, the dish will be ready. It is served only in a warm form.
Braised Cod
This recipe is sure to come in handy for people who follow a diet. And also it is appropriate in the menu of baby food.
To prepare it, you must prepare:
- 0.5 kg of cod;
- 2 pcs. bulbs and carrots;
- fresh tomato;
- vegetable oil;
- flour;
- spice.
For this recipe, fillet is best not to use. Because during the stew, the slices may lose their shape. Fish must be cleaned from the fins and washed well inside.
It is cut into medium sized pieces. They are well lubricated with salt, pepper and vegetable oil. For piquancy, you can sprinkle the fish with a little lemon juice. Then she sets aside to pickle.
At this time, onions are chopped into a small cube, and carrots - by straws. Vegetables are sent to the pan with vegetable oil and passaged until soft. Finely chopped tomato (peeled) is added here.
The whole mass is stewed for another 5 minutes. Then fish is sent to the sauce. Optionally, add a few spices to the dish. The pan is covered and the contents are simmered for another 20 minutes. Before laying, you can roll the fish in flour.
Oven baked cod
It will take no more than 30 minutes to prepare, and the taste of this white fish will turn out to be very tender. The recipe will definitely come in handy for housewives who, after work, will want to pamper their family with a healthy and original dish.
For cooking, it is necessary to rinse and remove the fins from one fish. Rinse well inside. Then, with a sharp knife, cuts are made on both sides of it. The carcass is well lubricated with salt and black pepper and sprinkled with lemon juice.
Thin slices of garlic cloves are placed in the incisions. A bunch of greens is chopped finely. The fish is laid in foil, and a small rim is formed around it. Greens are placed here.
This design is laid out on a baking sheet and sent to the oven for 30 minutes. Periodically, the fish is poured with juice, which flows into the foil.
Asian flounder
This fish with white meat has not only an unusual shape, but also amazing taste. For cooking, you will need the following ingredients:
- flounder (1 pc.);
- 3 eggs;
- 100 g of rice;
- 2 tbsp. l starch;
- 2 tbsp. l ketchup;
- 2 tsp Sahara.
It also contains Bulgarian pepper (1 pc.), Onion, garlic and celery root. A very unusual ingredient is present in the dish - pineapple (70 g). And also it is necessary to prepare a bunch of greens, ginger and cilantro.
The preparation scheme is as follows.
- Four to five cloves of garlic and 1 small ginger root are chopped with a knife.
- Onion, celery and bell pepper are cut into strips.
- Vegetable oil is poured into a cast-iron wok and warms up well. Only after that the prepared vegetables are laid out.
- After 5 minutes, diced pineapple is added to the wok.
- The mass is fried for 10 minutes, then 200 ml of water is poured into it. To this is added ketchup, sugar, 1 tbsp. l vinegar and 2 tbsp. l soy sauce.
- One or two cloves of garlic are chopped with a small piece of ginger. They are sent to another pan. After 2-3 minutes, boiled rice is poured into the same place.
- Now the whole mass is shifted to the side, and 1 egg is driven into free space. When it is covered with a film, it must be mixed with rice.
- Now finely chopped greens and 2 tbsp. Are added to the rice. l soy sauce. The contents of the pan are stewed until the liquid evaporates.
- Fish is sorted by fillet. Each piece is cut into medium sized slices. They are soaked in a little ginger juice. To prepare it, you need to grate the root and squeeze the liquid through cheesecloth. Such a marinade will help get rid of the smell of fish.
- In a plate with a fork, beat 2 eggs and starch. Slices of white fish are dipped in flour, and then in this mixture and fried in a hot pan until cooked.
Fish is served with spicy rice and wok sauce.
Fried flounder
This recipe is pretty easy to make. You need to purchase 2-3 pcs. flounders. The fish is well cleaned, the fins are removed. Then a ridge is cut and a fillet is formed. The remaining carcass is cut across into medium slices.
Slices are soaked in milk for 30 minutes. Thus, the meat will get rid of the odor and become tender. Then the slices are enveloped in flour and fried until crusted in vegetable oil.
At this time, you can begin to prepare the sauce. For him, a bunch of green onions, chopped finely, and 2 cloves pressed through a garlic press are fried. Then cream (200 ml) is added to the mixture.
Slices of fish are poured with the finished dressing and served hot to the table.
Hake in the zucchini
This marine white fish, if not properly prepared, can be dry and tasteless. A recipe for a zucchini hack will help to avoid such an error.
To prepare it, you need to remove fins from 3 fish and make a filet. Large bones are used to make broth. For him, it is necessary to put 30 ml of water on the fire in a stew-pan and send all the scraps from the fish there. For taste, you can add bay leaf and salt.
Each fillet is cut into 3-4 slices. They are coated with salt and pepper. Then crumble in flour and fry on two sides in vegetable oil. At this time, you need to wash 2 medium zucchini and cut them along the plates no thicker than half a centimeter.
Each slice is smeared on one side with ketchup mixed with crushed garlic cloves. A slice of fish is twisted into a zucchini plate: a small roll is obtained. Each is held together with a toothpick.
Parchment paper spreads on a baking sheet and is smeared with a little vegetable oil. All rolls are laid out here and 150 ml of fish broth are poured. Hard cheese (150 g) is rubbed on a small nozzle and a dish is sprinkled on top of it.
The baking sheet goes to the oven for baking at a temperature of 180 ° C for half an hour. Before serving rolls are sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Fish cakes
This dish is simply prepared and combined with any side dish. To prepare it, you need to grind 0.5 kg of milled hake through a meat grinder or grind it with a blender.
Boil potatoes (3 medium tubers) without peeling and cool. Chop the onion with a medium cube and fry in vegetable oil with salt and black pepper. Finely chop a bunch of greens. The potato is peeled. These all ingredients are also passed through a meat grinder.
Knead from all components of the stuffing with the addition of eggs. Cutlets are formed from it, which are dipped in breadcrumbs. Then they leave for half an hour in the refrigerator.
Cutlets are fried in vegetable oil from two sides to a brown tint. Then the pan is covered with a lid, and on minimal heat the dish is brought to readiness.
Tasty Irish Soup
This country is famous for fish dishes. The nuance is associated with the geographical location of Ireland and the industrial fishing of white fish and not only. This first dish is prepared on the basis of two types at once - hake and halibut.
The recipe also uses peeled mussels (100 g). Fillet (200 g) of halibut and 1 hake fish thaw. Fins and internal black veins are removed from them. Then put a pot of water on the fire and all the fish goes there. Half the onion is also placed here.
After boiling, the fish should cook for 20 minutes. Then it goes with the mussels, and the broth is filtered and returned to the fire. The remaining half of the onion is cut into small cubes and fried in vegetable oil along with grated carrots.
Potatoes (3 pcs.) Are peeled and cut into medium cubes. He, along with frying, goes to the broth. After the potatoes are cooked, half of it is pulled out and crushed with a fork in a plate with the addition of chopped dill (3-4 branches) and 150 ml of cream.
This mass is sent to the soup along with mussels and fish. From it, you must first remove the remaining bones. The soup is cooked for another 10 minutes.
Lightly salted nelma
This species is referred to red-white fish. But this is only culinary. Because officially it belongs to the salmon family, and they are usually called red.
Nelma does not have such a saturated color, so it can not be attributed to a specific form. But then it has an unusual taste and is ideal for salting in various ways.
One fish is cleaned and cut in half with the removal of the ridge. All large bones are also removed with tweezers. A cling film is spread on the table. A layer of coarse salt is poured on it. Bay leaf, several peas of pepper are laid here and sprinkled with ground white.
On all spices the fish fillet is laid out skin down. From above it is still sprinkled with salt. The fish is twisted into a film so that the fillet lies on top of each other. Then it is placed in a large bowl and sent for a day in the refrigerator to the lower shelf. When served, excess salt and spices are removed from the fish.
Telapia fillet with vegetables
This dish can be prepared with any white fish fillet. But telapia has a delicate taste, so with baked vegetables this combination will turn out to be the most successful.
To prepare it, you need 3-4 fillets. They thaw and are well washed. Then the fish is smeared with salt and any spices that the hostess uses to prepare homemade dishes.
Carrots rub on a large nozzle, and onions are cut into cubes. Vegetables are fried in vegetable oil with the addition of 1-2 pressed garlic cloves.
Then half of them are laid out at the bottom of the form. Top off fillet. Slices of fresh tomato and olive are stacked on it. The remainder of the frying is poured on top.
The form is sent to the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. Serve the dish with any side dish. This white fish in the oven turns juicy and spicy.
Bon Appetit everyone!