In terms of its nutritional value, pink salmon is a little inferior to expensive relatives, and the taste of the dishes prepared from it often turns out to be on top. One of the most popular dishes is pink salmon, baked in the oven. It is easy to cook it this way, meanwhile it turns out to be tasty and appetizing.
Cooking Features
Baking of pink salmon in the oven requires knowledge of some subtleties, otherwise the prepared dish may turn out to be insufficiently juicy.
- The main secret is to choose the most pink salmon. The fresher it is, the tastier it will turn out the dish from it. It is best to bake pink salmon that have not been frozen, but it is not always possible to purchase one. It is also possible to use frozen fish for baking, but you need to defrost it before cooking slowly, preferably in the refrigerator.
- Pink salmon - not the most juicy fish. In order for it not to become dry and hard when baking, it is pre-marinated, and when baking it is used fatty sauces. Baking in foil reduces the risk of overdrying the fish, but cooking time should not be exceeded anyway.
- Pink salmon can be baked whole, with steaks, in the form of fillets - it all depends on the selected recipe. If you do not plan to bake the whole pink salmon, you can purchase ready-made fillet. However, if you make the fillet yourself, it will cost less. The main thing is to possess the technique of primary processing and cutting of fish, to work in gloves using a knife with a sharp blade.
Specific features of the roasting process of pink salmon may depend on the selected recipe.
Pink salmon, baked whole
Composition:
- pink salmon - 1, 5 kg;
- butter - 100 g;
- onions - 75 g;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- mayonnaise - 0, 2 l;
- watercress - 50 g;
- spinach - 100 g;
- parsley - 50 g;
- wine vinegar (3%) - 10 ml;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Clean the pink salmon with a special knife, gut, cut off her fins and head, wash the carcass well and dry with a kitchen towel. Make transverse incisions 2 cm apart.
- Salt and pepper the fish inside and out.
- Peel the onion and cut it into thin half rings.
- Cut cold butter into thin slices. Insert pieces of oil into the incisions, put the rest in the abdomen. Put the onion there.
- Chop the greens, first cut it into small pieces, then mix it with a blender. Add vinegar, mayonnaise, lemon juice. Mix everything together with a blender until you get a uniform green sauce.
- Spread salmon with sauce on all sides.
- Wrap the fish in foil and place on a baking sheet.
- Place the baking tray in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. Bake 35 minutes.
Whole baked pink salmon looks like a banquet dish. It can be served whole, laid out on a beautiful dish, decorated with thin slices of lemon.
Pink salmon baked in the oven with vegetables
Composition:
- pink salmon fillet - 0.5 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 4 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- hot chilli pepper (optional) - 25 g;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the salmon fillet in running water, dry with a napkin, and rub with pepper and salt.
- Peel carrots and coarsely rub.
- Cut the peeled onion into small pieces.
- Remove the seeds from the bell pepper, wash the pepper, cut it into 4 pieces, and cut them into thin strips.
- If you like spicy dishes, cut into thin strips and half a pod of hot pepper.
- Chop parsley finely.
- Wash and dry the tomatoes. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices with a very sharp knife.
- Heat the oil in a pan and put the onion in it. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Add the carrots and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Put peppers (onion and carrot) with onions and carrots. Fry everything together, stirring, for 10 minutes.
- Lubricate the baking dish with oil and place the pink salmon fillet in it.
- Coat the fish with vegetable fry.
- Spread tomato cups on top.
- Heat oven to 200 degrees. Send in a form with a fish, previously covered with foil or a lid. Bake 25 minutes.
It is possible to serve pink salmon cooked according to this recipe without a side dish, although the dish with potatoes or rice will not only be more satisfying, but also tastier.
Pink salmon baked in foil
Composition:
- pink or steaks - 0, 8-1 kg;
- sour cream - 0.5 l;
- onions - 0, 2 l;
- complex seasoning for fish - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the fish, clean it, gut it, cut it into portions. If desired, you can use ready-made steaks.
- Sprinkle pieces of pink salmon with complex seasoning for cooking fish dishes. Leave it to marinate for half an hour.
- Peel the onions and cut into small rings. If the onion is large, then it is better to cut it into half rings.
- Prepare pieces of foil by the number of steaks. Place a sour cream in the center of each piece.
- Spread pink salmon steaks in pieces of foil. Sprinkle them with onion rings, cover with remaining sour cream.
- Pack each steak well in foil.
- Put the pink salmon in foil on a baking sheet and place it in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. After half an hour the dish will be ready - you can take out.
The pink salmon baked in foil with sour cream is very tender and juicy. Serve it with vegetable garnish.
Pink salmon baked in foil with vegetables and cheese
Composition:
- pink salmon steaks - 0, 8 kg;
- carrots - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- cheese - 150 g;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry the steaks of salmon with a towel.
- Salt, pepper, sprinkle lemon juice on both sides and leave for 15 minutes.
- Cut the cheese into thin slices.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into thin mugs.
- Peel the onion and cut it into small pieces.
- Peel the carrot and rub it large.
- Fry the onions and carrots in hot oil in a frying pan.
- Cut the foil into pieces sufficient to wrap a piece of steak in each piece.
- Place a little vegetable zazharki on each fox fox.
- Place the steak on the vegetable cushion.
- Cover the steaks with tomato slices.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- Wrap the pink salmon in foil, put on a baking sheet and send to the oven for 20 minutes.
- Roll out the foil, put the cheese on top. and continue baking for another 10 minutes.
For a similar recipe, you can cook and fillet of pink salmon. If you cook the fillet, you can bake it not only in portions in foil, but also in form.
Pink salmon baked with carrots and garlic
Composition:
- pink salmon steaks - 0, 8 kg;
- carrots - 100 g;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- onions - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- butter - 100 g;
- salt, seasonings - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare pink salmon steaks for 15 minutes in salt, seasonings and lemon juice.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Rub carrots.
- Cut onion into thin half rings.
- Cut the foil into pieces of the right size, brush with vegetable oil.
- Place a piece of pink salmon on each sheet of foil.
- Put the fish on a piece of cold oil, cover it with vegetables and pack in foil completely.
- Place the foil with fish on a baking sheet and send it to an oven warmed to 200 degrees. Bake the fish for 30 minutes.
The fish prepared according to this recipe is tender and fragrant.
Pink salmon baked in the oven - a dish at a cost price is inexpensive, and it doesn’t take much time to cook it. However, in taste and appearance it is on top.
