Cod - dietary fish.
And, although it is tasty in boiled and fried form, it is still better to bake it, because cod in foil in the oven, on the one hand, is more useful, but on the other - so it will turn out juicier and denser.
Cod in foil in the oven: general cooking principles
The taste of cod in the foil in the oven perfectly shade the vegetables: onions, carrots, Bulgarian pepper. Good fish and potatoes. White and black pepper are also perfectly combined with cod in foil in the oven, many like it if a garlic clove is added to the fish. As for the other spices, they significantly change the taste and aroma of cod, so rosemary, oregano or thyme should be added if you like them very much.
It is customary to add lemon to fish. However, cod does not have a greasy taste, so lemon is not very necessary, unless you like it more. Sliced lemon can be served separately, you can squeeze it into ready-made fish.
Very well served with cod cooked in a foil in the oven, sauce. This may be the usual fish sauce (mayonnaise + ketchup), tar-tar or lemon sauce.
To cook cod in the foil in the oven, it is better to take a whole carcass and cut the bones yourself: the fillet from the store will be dryish, and maybe frozen.
Recipe 1. Cod in a foil in the oven with vegetables
For this recipe for cod in foil in the oven, you can take a not very large carcass, even quite dry and skinny, soaked with vegetable juice, will be juicy and tasty. You can even take a ready fillet.
Ingredients
Cod carcass weighing about 500 g
Bulb - 1 large
Carrot - 1 root vegetable
Bulgarian pepper - 1 pod
Cooking oil for frying
Salt, black and white pepper, parsley, oregano or other spicy greens Method of preparation
Cod clean, wash, free from bones.
Grate each fillet with salt and pepper, sprinkle with chopped greens.
Chop the pepper and grate the carrot. Onions cut into thin strips and lightly fried in vegetable oil. Remove the onion and simmer a little pepper and carrot.
Cut off a large enough piece of foil, brush with oil and put one fillet on it with the skin down. Put vegetables on it, cover with other fillets and wrap in foil, leaving some free space inside and tightly wrapping the edges.
Put in an oven heated to 180 degrees and bake for about 20 minutes. Before serving, cut into portions. You can serve lemon and sauce.
Recipe 2. Cod in a foil in the oven with an orange
To cook cod in foil in the oven according to this recipe, you must take a whole gutted fish, with or without a head, you decide. But if you are going to cook with your head, remove your eyes and gills.
Ingredients
Enough large cod carcass
Oranges - 1-2 pieces
Lemon - 1 piece
Antonovka type apple - one
Onion - one small
Salt, pepper, herbs to taste
Method of preparation
Clean and wash the carcass. Grate it with salt and pepper.
Cut the apple into thin pins. Grind greens. The onion is quite finely chopped and passaged in oil. Combine onion, apple and greens, add a little salt and lay in the abdomen of cod.
Make transverse cuts to the bone on one side of the carcass and place there, alternating, thin circles of orange and lemon with the skin (you must first wash them thoroughly with a brush, you can even with soap).
Wrap the citrus-stuffed fish in a sheet of foil, oiled and bake for 40 minutes at a temperature of about 190 degrees.
Remove the mold, carefully, so as not to burn yourself, make an incision with scissors and push the edges of the foil apart and return to the oven for another 10 minutes, increasing the temperature to 200-210 degrees.
Recipe 3. Cod in foil in the oven with sour cream
Ingredients
Cod fillet - about half a kilo
Sour cream fat - 200 g
Mustard - a couple of tablespoons
Butter - about 70-100 g
Salt, black and white pepper
Olives, lemon, greens - to serve
Method of preparation
Mix sour cream and two tablespoons of mustard, salt and pepper.
Cut the fillet into portions and spread with a mixture of sour cream and mustard. Wrap each piece in a separate envelope of foil, put a small piece of butter on top, wrap tightly and bake at about 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. If the fillet pieces are large or thick, then they need to be baked longer. In any case, 5 minutes prior to readiness, you should cut the envelopes and increase the temperature in the oven.
When serving, garnish the fish with olives, lemon slices and chopped greens.
Recipe 4. Cod in foil in the oven “Greek”
Ingredients
Cod fillet - about a kilogram
Boiled egg - 2 pieces
Tomato paste - 2 spoons
Mayonnaise - 4 spoons
Spicy greens (eg rosemary)
Olives
Tomatoes - 2-3 medium sized
Lemon
Vegetable oil for lubrication
Method of preparation
Fillet cut into portions. Mix mayonnaise with tomato paste, if desired, salt it.
Spread each piece of fillet with a mixture of mayonnaise and tomato paste, sprinkle with chopped spicy greens (if it is dry, rub it in your fingers to make it smaller).
Tomatoes and eggs cut into circles. Cut lemon into semicircles.
On sheets of foil, lightly oiled, put the pieces of fish, on top of each place a circle of tomatoes, a circle of eggs and half a circle of lemon. Throw 2-3 olives. Thoroughly wrap envelopes.
Bake fish in a hot (about 200 degrees) oven for 25-30 minutes. Serve with salad or just fresh vegetables.
Recipe 5. Cod in foil in the oven "In Roman"
Ingredients
Cod fillet weighing about a kilogram
Zucchini - 1 piece, about 500 g
Cherry - 250 g
Sweet pepper - 1 piece Capers - 2 tablespoons
Pesto
Dry wine - 100 ml
Salt, pepper, a mixture of Italian herbs
Garlic - 2-3 cloves
Olives, olives, lemon - to serve
Vegetable oil for roasting and for greasing foil
Method of preparation
Cod fillet cut into portions and fry in a pan.
Garlic skip through the press. Zucchini cut with a peeler into thin strips, and pepper - straw, and cherry - in half.
Each slice of fish spread pesto and garlic. In envelopes of foil, oiled, put a layer of vegetables, then fish, throw a little capers on top and pour in a teaspoon of wine. Carefully wrap the envelopes, seeking to ensure that the sauce and juice of fish and vegetables do not flow out.
Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about 20-25 minutes. When serving, garnish with olives, olives and lemon slices.
Recipe 6. Cod in foil in the oven with potatoes
This recipe involves cooking cod in foil in the oven for a hearty lunch. Of course, he is not very dietary.
Ingredients
Cod fillet
Potatoes at the rate of 2-3 tubers per serving (depending on their size)
Onions - 1 onion
Low-fat sour cream
Rosemary
A piece of bacon
Butter - about 70 g
Method of preparation
Wash the potatoes, peel, cut into thin pieces. Onions peel and chop.
Envelopes from foil grease and put half of the potatoes. Brush with sour cream, sprinkle with rosemary and place the fish on top. Also smear it with sour cream, sprinkle with onion and cover with the remaining potatoes, which also smear with sour cream, and put the thinnest slices of bacon on top. Wrap the envelopes tightly and bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. Then, very carefully, so as not to burn yourself and not to pour out the juice, open the envelopes, increase the temperature to 220 degrees and hold it for another 10 minutes.
Recipe 7. Cod in foil in the oven with oyster mushrooms
This version of cod in foil in the oven is quite suitable for the holiday table. Ingredients
Cod weighing 1 - 1.5 kg (carcass)
Lemon
Oyster mushrooms - 300 g
Natural yoghurt - 125 g
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Grated Parmesan - 100 g
Parsley - bunch
Butter
Method of preparation
Clean, wash and dry the carcass with a paper towel. Oyster mushrooms wash and clean. Garlic skip through the press and mix with yogurt. In a yogurt with garlic pickle fish for about half an hour. Grease a large sheet of foil with oil, put oyster mushrooms on it, and fish with marinade on them. Cover with thin slices of lemon. Sprinkle with parsley and grated butter generously.
Thoroughly wrap the fish in foil and bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Then carefully open the foil with scissors and push the edges apart.
Sprinkle with grated parmesan and return to the oven for another 20 minutes, increasing the temperature to 210 degrees.
Recipe 8. Cod in foil in the oven “Under the fox fur coat”
Ingredients
Cod fillet - 1 kg
Carrot - 2 large
Onions - 1 large onion or 2 medium
Lemon juice
Mayonnaise
Boiled eggs - 3 pieces
Salt, pepper - to taste
Vegetable oil
It is better not to add any garlic or spicy herbs, but if you really want, you can add a little bit.
Method of preparation
Rub carrots, chop onions and sauté vegetables in oil. Sprinkle with fillet of lemon juice, salt, pepper and grease generously with mayonnaise. Eggs to chop and sprinkle with fillets, and on top of them lay out the "coat" of carrots and onions.
Pinch the edges of the foil to make an envelope and bake the fish with vegetables in the oven at 200 degrees for about half an hour.
Recipe 9. Garlic to cod sauce in foil in the oven
Ingredients
“Dutch” type cheese - 100 g
Soft melted cheese in the tub (for example, “Viola”) - 100 g
Garlic - half a head or a bit more
Dry white wine - 1 spoon
Olive oil (can be corn) - 1 spoon
Method of preparation
Cheese grate as small as possible, mix it in melted cheese. Add garlic, wine and oil passed through the garlic press. The sauce should brew for half an hour.
Recipe 10. Lemon sauce with garlic to cod in foil in the oven
Ingredients
Lemon - 1 piece
Olive or Corn Oil - 30 ml
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Salt, white pepper
Cooking method
With half a lemon, remove the zest and chop it. Crush the garlic with a pestle and mortar, mix it with the juice of two lemons. Blender (but you can manually), mix the zest, garlic, oil and lemon juice, add salt and a little pepper. Let stand for about half an hour.
Cod in foil in the oven: Tricks and tips
- To make cod in foil in the oven more juicy, you can pickle it in water before cooking, diluting some vinegar in it, and if you want to reduce the smell of fish, it is better to take vinegar, apple, wine or just flavored . However, you can moisten the carcass or fillet with lemon juice.
- A very pleasant fish is that which has been aged for half an hour in natural yogurt or sour cream with a fat content of 10%, mixed with herbs or chopped garlic cloves.
- Serve the fish well. You can garnish with potatoes or rice. You can put out the vegetables.
- You can not add wine to the envelope if the dish is intended for children, but prepare the sauce from it and serve it separately. To do this, slightly evaporate the wine, pouring it into the pan and adding chopped olives and grated nuts (walnuts or pistachios).
