Salmon is understood to mean any fish from the salmon family (salmon, trout, chum salmon, pink salmon, etc.). Salmon and its relatives are not only very tasty, but also healthy food, which is valuable primarily omega-3 fatty acids, which protect our body from the development of various inflammatory processes, which, as you know, are the cause of most diseases. Also, these fatty acids prevent the formation of blood clots, which are the main cause of heart attacks.
It has been proven that 100 grams of salmon contains the daily intake of vitamin D and half the daily intake of such essential substances as vitamin B12, niacin, selenium, vitamin B6 and magnesium. Useful even canned salmon, as it is found in high levels of calcium. In addition to these, salmon contains more than 80 other nutrients.
If we talk about this fish in a culinary aspect, then it is characterized by a slight decrease in size after frying and stewing, the ability to maintain its nutritional properties and attractive appearance. For the preparation of most dishes, prepared salmon fillets or steaks are used, although it is very successful to use whole fish or its individual parts. As a rule, salmon is fried (using a pan or grill), or baked in the oven.
Salmon Dishes - The Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Baked Salmon in the Oven
Very useful, tasty and at the same time not at all complicated dish, for the preparation of which salmon fillet is baked in foil with eggs, onions and dill. Foil allows you to store all the nutrients in the fish, and lemon and dill give it a characteristic taste and aroma. You can garnish the dish with fresh vegetables.
Ingredients:
2 salmon fillet of 400 gr. each;
1 tsp lemon juice;
2 boiled eggs;
2 onions;
40 gr butter;
1 small bunch of dill.
Cooking method:
1. Cut into thin slices 2 onions.
2. Peel 2 boiled eggs and chop finely.
3. Finely chop the dill.
4. Having laid one salmon filet skin down on a foil sheet, sprinkle it with lemon juice, salt and sprinkle with eggs and ykrop, then cover with prepared onion slices, pour over the melted butter.
5. We cover everything with a second piece of fillet, skin laid up.
6. Wrap the foil tightly, put all the pan and bake in the oven for half an hour.
Recipe 2: Creamy Salmon
Salmon cooked in a creamy sauce is an excellent second course. By skipping the frying step, you can get boiled-stewed fish. After frying, the fish gets a special aroma and turns out to be more uniform and dense. Mustard and green onions added to the cream give the dish a slightly spicy flavor.
Ingredients
1.5 kg of salmon fillet (or other fish of the salmon family);
half a lemon;
grows up. frying oil;
pepper to taste;
For the sauce:
0.5 l of cream or sour cream;
1 tbsp. l mustard;
20 gr. butter;
a bunch of green onions (about 100 gr.);
2 tbsp. l breadcrumbs;
to taste salt, pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the fish in portions, salt, but not pepper. We put them in a deep plate in layers, spraying each with lemon juice, and leave for 15 minutes.
2. Pour the oil into the pan and, after heating it over high heat, quickly fry the salmon pieces (no more than 1 minute, this is important), ready to shift into the baking dish.
3. Finely chop the green onions.
4. In another pan (you can wash the same one in which we fried fish) melt a piece of butter over medium heat.
5. Putting a little chopped onion, put the rest in a pan and fry for a short time, stirring constantly, only to let it lose in volume.
6. Mix cream or sour cream with mustard, salt, pepper, pour into a pan and heat the sauce with constant stirring until the first bubbles appear. An important detail: low-fat cream (up to 20%) or even more sour cream can curl up, no need to be scared. After intensive mixing, there will be no large flakes, and after baking even small ones will not be noticeable at all.
7. Pour the fish in the form with the resulting sauce, then, sprinkling everything with ground breadcrumbs, bake in the oven for about half an hour.
8. Ready fish can be sprinkled with left onion before serving.
Recipe 3: Salmon Salad
An incredibly simple but tasty dish in which salmon is mixed with boiled eggs, grated hard cheese and canned peas.
Ingredients:
1 can of salmon;
5 hard-boiled eggs;
100 gr. cheese;
0.3 cans of green canned peas;
5 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
pepper and salt to taste.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare the components of the salad: remove the bones from the fish and knead the resulting fillet with a fork; grate the cheese; finely chop eggs.
2. Mix chopped eggs, fish, grated cheese, green peas, salt, pepper.
3. Season with mayonnaise and put in a beautiful salad bowl, sprinkle with parsley.
Recipe 4: Salmon Soup
Very tasty, hearty and easy to prepare soup. One detail: salmon habitats are clean places, so it does not have any odors. Accordingly, I want to warn you against using various soup seasonings “for fish”, which are good for cyprinids, which often have a smell of mud, and in the case of salmon, they only deprive the soup of that unique appetizing aroma characteristic of salmon family fish.
Ingredients:
300 gr salmon fillets;
1 carrot;
3 potatoes;
1 onion;
rast. butter,
2-3 bay leaves;
to taste salt and pepper, parsley
Cooking method:
1. Cut the fillet into small pieces having a thickness of about 2 centimeters.
2. Peel and wash the vegetables, then cut the potatoes into cubes, finely chop the onion, grate the carrots.
3. Pour water into the pan and place the carrots and bay leaves there. When the water boils, make the fire less and cook the carrots for about 10 minutes.
4. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown, add it to the pan, cook for a few more minutes and send the potatoes there. We bring our soup to a boil again and put the fish there.
5. After making the fire maximum, bring the soup to a boil, turn it off and let it “reach” for about 10 minutes. It will be good if the soup is infused for another half hour, then its taste will become even more saturated.
6. Pouring soup into plates, you can add to each slightly finely chopped parsley.
Recipe 5: Salmon Steak
Spoiling a salmon steak is a difficult task even for a novice cook, if you follow all the recommendations in the recipe. Many people like to just bake a steak on the grill or fry in a pan. In our recipe, in which salmon steaks are stewed in a pan in grapefruit juice, the meat is especially tender, with a noble taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
4 salmon steaks;
1 tbsp. l olive oil;
3 onions;
250 ml freshly squeezed grapefruit juice
a few cloves of grapefruit.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onions and finely chop them.
2. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan with a non-stick coating and fry the chopped onion until soft.
3. Put the steaks in the pan, fill with grapefruit juice, sending the grapefruit slices there, cover with a lid and cook for not more than 5-7 minutes on low heat.
4. Ready steaks are served with fresh bread, or with a side dish in the form of rice or vegetables.
Salmon dishes - tips from experienced chefs
To prepare a good salmon dish, it is very important to choose the right product. If you buy fresh fish that is cut into steaks or fillets, make sure that it has not been frozen before. You can find out by the pulp, which should be soft, dense and not watery. Remember - the fresher the fish, the tastier, more aromatic and simply more beautiful your dish will be.
To fry salmon, you should first preheat the pan well, and fry it very quickly, as indicated in the recipe. If this rule is neglected, fat will escape from the fish and it will become dry and may fall apart.
One of the main rules: fish, in which there is so much of its own taste and aroma, minimally needs seasonings. Before the heat treatment, it is best to sprinkle salmon with lemon, which will perfectly emphasize all the taste advantages of our fish. When baking salmon, you can overlay it with thinly sliced lemon slices.
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