The sauce served with the pike will complement the dish with flavor notes. When preparing it, cream or fish broth is usually used, although there are also very original recipes for sauces with the addition of pickled mushrooms and vegetables, fruits, berries and even citruses.
Classic white pike sauce
This simple recipe is one of the most common and is made from common foods. But, despite this, the sauce turns out to be delicate in consistency, tasty and goes well with any fish, including pike - fried, stewed or baked in the oven.
For cooking you will need the following products:
- 0.5 liters of fish broth;
- 1 egg yolk;
- 4 tablespoons butter;
- half tablespoon flour;
- half a lemon.
Step-by-step recipe for white pike sauce:
First, cook an ordinary fish broth, for this you can use the pike's head, fins, tail left after cutting the fish carcass. Strain the finished broth and refrigerate.
Melt half of the specified amount of butter in a pan, do not bring to a boil. Slowly add flour, stirring constantly, so that no lumps form. If the flour sticks together, crush the lumps with a fork. Fry lightly.
Remove skillet from heat and pour in cold fish broth. Stir until smooth. If there are any lumps, use a blender.
Season with salt and add the yolk, whisk lightly.
Place the white pike sauce on the stove and heat until boiling, stirring continuously.
Remove from heat and let cool. Then add the melted remaining butter and lemon juice. Stir.
Serve cold with the pike.
Sour cream sauce for pike
Sour cream is often used to make various sauces, including fish. It is fatty, has a delicate creamy taste with a slight sourness and is well suited for a sauce base.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- half a glass of low-fat sour cream;
- 1 glass of fish broth;
- 1 tbsp butter;
- ½ tbsp flour;
- nutmeg or lemon zest to taste
- green onions;
- salt.
Step-by-step recipe for sour cream pike sauce
Melt the butter, do not bring it to a boil. Add flour and rub all the lumps.
Pour in the fish broth (it can be cooked from the head and pike scraps when cutting the carcass).
Bring the sauce to a simmer, stirring occasionally, and cool.
Add sour cream, salt and stir.
Finely chop the green onion and add to the sauce.
Add a choice of chopped nutmeg or lemon zest for a different flavor. Whisk lightly.
The sauce is ready, you can pour it over the fish on a plate or serve it to the pike separately in a gravy boat.
Mustard cream sauce
It pairs well with oven-baked or fried pike and is easy to cook.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- 250 ml cream;
- 4 tablespoons butter;
- 2 tsp mustard seeds;
- 1 tsp lemon juice;
- green onions to taste;
- salt.
Step-by-step recipe for mustard and cream pike sauce
Whip the cream first and add the mustard seeds to it.
Next, heat the mass over medium heat until thickened with constant stirring. Then cool it down.
Add soft butter to the sauce, add lemon juice and salt to taste. Stir until smooth.
Sprinkle the pike sauce with finely chopped green onions before serving.
Pomegranate-garlic sauce for pike
The combination of pomegranate juice and garlic gives the original pungent taste. Sour cream makes the sauce a pleasant, delicate consistency. You can add some spices. This sauce is good to serve with fish, including pike.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- 4 tablespoons sour cream;
- 2 tbsp soy sauce;
- 2 tbsp pomegranate juice;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- a pinch of ground black pepper;
- a pinch of spices for fish;
- a pinch of paprika;
- some fresh dill;
- salt.
Step-by-step recipe for pomegranate-garlic sauce for pike
Mix sour cream, pomegranate juice, soy sauce, spices into one mass, salt to taste.
Crush the garlic, chop the herbs, add to the sauce, stir again.
Serve with fried or baked pike, or fish cakes.
Strawberry-tomato
A very original sauce will appeal to gourmets. It enhances the flavor of freshwater fish like pike.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- 1 tomato (large);
- 5-6 ripe strawberries;
- 1 onion (medium);
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar;
- 3 tbsp olive oil;
- a couple of sprigs of parsley;
- salt.
Step-by-step recipe for strawberry tomato sauce for pike
Remove the skin from the tomato by cutting it slightly and dipping it in boiling water for a couple of seconds. Then the skin will come off easily.
Cut the tomato into small cubes.
Finely chop the strawberries too.
Chop the parsley.
Chop the onion finely.
Put all the ingredients in a bowl, season with salt to taste, add olive oil, apple cider vinegar and let sit for 30 minutes. Then whisk with a blender. Serve with fried pike, baked in the oven or on the grill.
Potato with garlic
This sauce is interesting because it is thick, because the potatoes add viscosity. However, it is ideal for pike in taste. The sauce in the photo looks like a side dish, but it turns out very tasty.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- 3 potatoes;
- half a glass of milk;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar;
- 30 ml olive oil;
- salt to taste.
Step-by-step recipe for garlic potato sauce
Boil peeled potatoes in unsalted water. While hot, crush into puree, adding warm milk. It is convenient to use a blender for this.
Crush the garlic and add to the potatoes, and pour in the olive oil and apple cider vinegar and stir.
Season with salt to taste and blend until smooth.
Original sauce with orange, mayonnaise and rum
This seemingly odd combination of citrus, ketchup and mayonnaise-based rum actually enriches the taste of freshwater fish a lot. Try this pike sauce and it might become your favorite.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- half a sweet orange;
- 3 tbsp hot ketchup;
- 3 tbsp olive mayonnaise;
- 3 tbsp good rum;
- curry to taste and desire.
Step-by-step recipe for orange sauce, mayonnaise and rum with ketchup
Squeeze the juice from half an orange, add hot ketchup, mayonnaise and rum.
Add spices and bring to a sauce with a blender.
Serve with ready-made pike, you can also bake fish with this sauce in the oven on a baking sheet or in foil.
Mushroom with wine
A very tasty sauce, while it can not only be served with pike, but also used as a dressing for fish salad.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- 100 g of porcini mushrooms or champignons;
- half a glass of milk;
- 1 onion;
- 2 tbsp butter;
- 1 tbsp flour;
- green onions;
- pepper and salt to taste.
Step-by-step recipe for mushroom pike sauce
Rinse the porcini mushrooms and boil. Then cool and chop finely.
Chop the onions and lightly fry in butter, no browning.
Put mushrooms in a pan with onions and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, so as not to burn.
Add flour, sprinkle in small portions and stir constantly to prevent lumps from forming. Pour in milk, salt to taste, pepper and simmer for 5 minutes.
Transfer the mushroom sauce to a bowl and sprinkle with finely chopped green onions. Serve hot with fish.
