Fish dishes are present in the normal diet of people at least once a week. If a person cares about the condition of his nails, bones, hair and skin, then he tries to eat fish more often. There are people who do not even think about the benefits of this product, they have a pretty set of various recipes for its preparation of fish, simply because they adore it.
Variety of fish dishes
You can make fish soup, you can stew it in sour cream with herbs and lemon, you can marinate it and just bake it in foil. Kulebyaki and pies are widespread, in which it plays the role of filling. The range of recipes is rich and great. But most often they prefer to fry fish. The easiest way to fry it is to roll in flour and salt and fry thoroughly in vegetable oil, using a frying pan.
But what if you do not use a flour product?
Is it possible to fry fish without flour? Of course you can! There are several ways to cook it without using the flour ingredient. Right now let's look at recipes that give an example of how to cook such a fried dish.
Cheese fish fillet
Before you fry the fish in a pan without flour, you need to purchase it, of course. Better for this purpose, telapia, pollock, hake fillet - in general, low-fat varieties (700-900 grams) are suitable.
Together with fish you need the following set of ingredients:
- hard cheese (Russian, for example, perfect) - 200 grams;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- a pinch of salt and pepper;
- breadcrumbs - 2 tablespoons;
- various spices to taste;
- vegetable oil - for frying.
Cooking method
And now we learn how to fry fish without flour, so that you get a delicious crust. To begin, prepare all the products.
If the fillet is frozen, thaw it at room temperature and squeeze out excess moisture. Cut into medium pieces and, salt and pepper, sprinkle with other suitable spices. Do it better in a deep bowl.
Grate the cheese. Drive raw eggs into a bowl and mix them with a spoon of water and grated cheese. Pour crackers on the dish - we will roll the fish fillet in them.
Before frying fish without flour in a frying pan in oil, we arm ourselves with a thick-walled good frying pan. And pour vegetable oil into it. It should be so much that the fish pieces are covered with oil at least a quarter. We heat the pan and proceed to frying.
In turn, take each fish fillet and roll it generously in breadcrumbs, dip in cheese batter. Immediately lay the pieces of fish in a pan and fry on both sides until a rosy, crispy cheese crust appears.
Put the finished fish on a dish lined with paper towels. So the product will get rid of excess fat. You can lay the finished fish on a wire rack - it cools evenly and does not damp, while retaining a crisp.
The method without the use of crackers and flour
And so you can fry fish without flour and crackers. Sometimes it happens that this method helps a lot. For 1 liter of clean cold water, you need half a large spoonful of salt and a quarter spoonful of sugar. Salt will give the fish fillet hardness.
Before frying fish without flour, it needs to be held in the marinade for some time. Dissolve salt and sugar in water and place prepared pieces of fish for half an hour in a container. This method is good in order to fry not only a full fillet, but also a small fish (peeled and freed from inedible elements).
After 30 minutes, remove the brine and slightly dry the fish. To speed up the process, pat it dry with a paper towel.
Warm oil well
Pour a decent amount of vegetable oil into the pan (it should completely hide the bottom). Before frying fish without flour, make sure that the oil is hot, then the fish pieces will not stick to the bottom and will not cause a lot of unpleasant troubles associated with the ugly appearance of the finished product and prolonged washing of the pan from burnt fish parts.
When the oil is heated to a boil, slightly reduce the heat. And quickly put in a frying pan fish fillet or a whole small fish. Fry fish on each side for three to five minutes. During this time, she will have time to fry and cover herself with a beautiful crust.
Serve the finished fish with any suitable side dish. Usually, any kind of potato, boiled rice or pasta goes to the side dish.
Fish in egg batter
Thanks to the following recipe, you can also fry fish in an egg without flour. This cooking method has a lot of fans. This is not surprising, because the final dish is tasty and beautiful.
Hake fillet is best for cooking. You can make other types of fish in a similar way, but before you fry the fish without flour in egg batter, you need to remove all the bones from it, leaving one pulp.
Necessary products for cooking:
- half a kilogram of fish (peeled and chopped);
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- garlic - a few cloves;
- spices for fish;
- lean oil for toasting fish;
- greens and salt.
We wash all the greens in running water and chop it finely. Pour prepared greens into a bowl. Add spices, pepper, salt to it and squeeze out all the garlic through a press.
In a deep bowl, mix the pickling mixture (herbs with spices) and pieces of prepared fish. We leave everything in this form, covering it for 2 hours. It is better if the fish spends these hours in the refrigerator.
Pour vegetable oil without aroma into the pan. We pour generously so that the fish is immersed in boiling oil for a quarter. Heat oil over moderate heat. When it hisses, we drive the eggs into the bowl and quickly mix them with a fork or whisk until a homogeneous substance is obtained.
Dip the fish fillet in this mixture and send it to the heated oil. Be careful when the fish touches the oil, and in the process of cooking the latter can give a spray. This comes from the contact of cold liquid with boiling vegetable oil.
We fry the fish on each side for several minutes. Approximately three to five, but the cooking time also depends on the thickness of the pieces themselves or the caliber of the whole fish. Do not cut too thick pieces, then the dish will turn out more delicious and aromatic.
Put the finished fish on a wire rack so that the excess fat is gone and the crust is not wet. You can use a flat, wide dish pre-coated with several layers of paper towel.
Roasted Mackerel with Nuts
This exquisite method of cooking fish without the use of flour is suitable even for a festive table.
We need:
- mackerel - 2 pieces; if you need to cook more fish, double the amount of ingredients;
- walnut kernel - 180-200 grams;
- breadcrumbs - 3 large spoons;
- chicken eggs - 2-3 pieces;
- oil for frying fish;
- spices, salt, garlic, crushed through a press.
How will we cook? Gut the fish and rinse. Pull out the spine with lateral bones.
Finely chop the nuts with a knife or grind with a blender. You can use a meat grinder for this purpose. Mix the nut mass with breadcrumbs with salt and spices in a separate plate. Mix the eggs with a fork in a separate deep bowl, add crushed garlic to them.
Dip each filet first in a nut breading, then dip in a bowl with an egg and spread on a hot frying pan with vegetable oil without flavor. Take your time and wait until small bubbles appear on the surface, only then you can start cooking mackerel in a nut breading.
Each mackerel fillet needs to be fried on both sides until a delicious crispy crust is formed. Serve the finished fish with potatoes, stewed vegetables.