If cooking fish for the holiday table seems like a bad idea to you, it’s worth rethinking this dish. Many guests at the holiday expect to be fed with different delicacies, more often meat. But, fish dishes against the background of meat dishes can look more winning. The fact is that you can get tired of the usual French-style meat and roast. Especially if the holidays in your family last for a long time.
Therefore, to replace meat delicacies should be prepared fish. However, is it really necessary to buy tuna and salmon? The cost of this fish is quite impressive. You can replace expensive fish with mackerel
. Let’s prepare baked mackerel for a festive table.
Ingredients for baked mackerel:
- fresh-frozen mackerel – 2 pcs;
- salt – a pinch;
- potatoes – 4 pcs;
- onions – pcs;
- paprika;
- dried garlic;
- coriander – 12 tsp;
- soy sauce – 4 tbsp.
Cooking baked mackerel:
Make two parallel incisions along the backbone of the fish and take out the backbone with bones. Open the fish along the spine, remove the insides and black film. Also remove fins and gills, make incisions along the ribs on each side at a distance of a couple of cm.
Sprinkle mackerel fillets with salt and seasoning for fish, leave to marinate for 15-20 minutes. Cut the peeled potatoes into thin plates, sprinkle with seasonings for vegetables and potatoes.
Grease a baking tray with vegetable oil, lay the potatoes on the surface.
Bake potatoes at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Cut onions in half rings. Put the onions on the baked potatoes, lay the fillets on top with the meat down.
In a bowl mix paprika with coriander and dry garlic, pour soy sauce and vegetable oil. Brush each mackerel with this marinade.
Wash parchment, put on top of the fish and vegetables. Bake the dish at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
Splash the fish with lemon juice and serve to the table together with potatoes.
It turns out to be a festive and tasty dish.
