Everyone knows the benefits and nutritional value of fish. Particularly beneficial from this side stand out ocean species of fish. One of such valuable and prominent representatives is saury.
It contains easily digestible proteins, saturated and unsaturated fats, complex and simple carbohydrates. Calorie content per hundred grams is about two hundred kilocalories. Saury contains large amounts of vitamin A, nicotinic acid, vitamin C and D. In addition, this fish is saturated with a large number of useful trace elements (fluorine, iron, chromium, etc.).
Canned saury
To get fresh ocean saury from the nearest supermarket is quite a difficult task. But to cook canned saury soup is quite doable. It is proved that this fish does not lose a lot of its beneficial properties and vitamin composition during heat treatment. Canned saury is a healthy product for the body, from which you can cook a lot of snacks and salads. But especially hostesses appreciate first courses.
Soups from saury are prepared quickly, do not make much time to spend at the stove. In addition, canned fish is inexpensive, which makes lunch for the whole family affordable and affordable. The first saury dishes are aromatic, tasty and satisfying. We will not mention the benefits once again.
Cured Saury Soup Recipe
To prepare a classic recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- Canned Saury - 400 g
- A little carrot.
- Three to four large potatoes.
- One onion.
- Optionally, you can add rice, millet or barley to the fish soup from saury (2 tbsp.).
- Salt.
- Fresh greens.
- Bay leaf.
- A pair of peas of allspice.
Potatoes
Since we make soup from canned saury, therefore, we don’t have to cut and prepare fish. The first step is the vegetables. Potatoes need to be peeled and cut into fairly large squares. Carrots can be cut into thin circles or chopped with a coarse grater. Peel the onions and cut into very small cubes.
In a small pan, the capacity of which is no more than two and a half liters, pour 1.5-2.0 liters of water. We send potatoes there. At the beginning of cooking, you can add a pinch of salt, a couple of peas of allspice. To make saury soup fragrant, add a few large bay leaves while boiling potatoes.
Vegetable frying
Almost no soup goes without frying vegetables. Soup of canned fish (saury) is no exception. While the potatoes are boiling, we are engaged in frying onions and carrots. Since carrots are fried for longer, it is recommended to send them to the pan a little earlier than onions.
Try to cook vegetables for frying with a minimum amount of oil. If canned saury in oil is taken for the recipe, then there will be plenty of it in soup. If desired, a couple of tablespoons of homemade tomato paste can be introduced into a vegetable frying. The pasta can be replaced with a pair of juicy tomatoes, cut into very small cubes.
Cereals
To make saury soup more nutritious and nutritious, many housewives add cereals. It can be rice, pearl barley or millet. Remember, if pearl barley is added to the soup, it should be soaked in advance and washed thoroughly under running cold water. Cereals are added to the soup along with vegetable frying.
Canned food
After 15-20 minutes, when the potatoes are cooked, and the cereal becomes soft, you can add canned fish. As a rule, saury in the bank is in the form of large pieces. Before sending it to the soup, put the fish in a plate and knead with a fork. Juice (oil) from the can is also added to the broth, it will give an additional aroma and taste. For feeding, you can leave a few whole pieces of fish, taking out the cartilage.
We try saury soup. If necessary, add more salt. Cook for about five minutes, turn off the fire, cover and leave to “reach”.
Served saury soup with fresh herbs. We put a whole piece of fish in each plate. You can also add a small piece of butter.
Options
- Soup from saury will be less high-calorie and dietary, if you do not add fish oil from a can and do not passer vegetables.
- You can get a thicker and more rich fish soup if you add tomato paste based on starch to the roasting.
- For the dish you can use completely different types of cereals: rice, barley, pearl barley, bulgur or millet.
- For fans of culinary experiments and unusual serving, we recommend adding a loose egg to the boiling soup at the last stage of cooking. The result is a delicious and very beautiful thread in the broth.
- For the original taste and create a creamy consistency, you can add cream cheese. Before sending it to the soup, it is recommended to hold it in the freezer for a couple of minutes and grate it on a fine grater.
How to choose canned food
As we know, the taste of a dish directly depends on the quality of the original ingredients. Choose canned saury following a few important tips:
- The jar of fish should be smooth, without chips, dents or other flaws.
- Read carefully what canned food consists of. Raw materials can be both fish and fish waste. The difference in raw materials is clear, and the choice in favor of fish is obvious.
- Marking with the date of manufacture should be a laser engraving, not a paper sticker.
- The letter “S” squeezed out on a jar indicates that exclusively high-quality and fresh fish was used for production, and not waste.
- When the jar is open, do not rush to add fish to the soup. We smell it and look carefully at the color of fish meat. There should be no inclusions, blackouts, spots on fish slices and an unpleasant aroma coming from a can.