Cooking fish is a delicate and painstaking process. You may not always get juicy and flavorful fish. Often people tend to keep fish too long on the fire in a pan, because of which it becomes dry and tasteless.
Instead of frying fish, it is worth trying to bake or stew it. This way, the tender meat will retain the nutrients and juiciness of the product. However, stewing and baking also requires certain skills and experience.
Let’s tell you how to deliciously cook a fish dish.
Ingredients for stewed fish:
- fish fillet – 800 g;
- water – liter;
- salt – tbsp;
- oregano pepper – 5 pcs;
- black pepper peas – 5 pieces;
- bay leaf – pcs;
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp;
- butter – 20 g;
- onion – pcs.;
- carrots – pcs;
- flour – tbsp;
- sour cream – 200 ml.
Preparation of stewed fish:
In a saucepan pour 500 ml of water, pour salt, add oregano and black pepper peas, bay leaf. Clean the fish from fins, skin and innards, cut into small pieces.
Put the fish in water, cook under a lid over medium heat for 5 minutes. At this time, heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, melt butter
. Cut onions into small cubes, fry in a frying pan until soft. Grate carrots, add to onions, fry.
Take the fish out of the broth.
Pour flour into the pan with vegetable mass, stir. In the vegetable mass add sour cream, pour 300 ml of broth, bring to a boil.
Cooled fish get rid of bones, divide into small pieces.
Put the fish into the boiling gravy, cook for 15 minutes on minimum heat under a lid.
You can cook such fish in sauce with any garnish – be it rice, mashed potatoes or buckwheat. You can take inexpensive fish – hake or pollock.
