Pike is a lean fish, so cutlets from it can turn out to be dry and tasteless. To prevent this from happening, it is important to choose high-quality raw materials and properly prepare pike dishes. Lard, sour cream, vegetables or other ingredients are added to the minced meat, giving it tenderness and juiciness. Breaded pike cutlets with various sauces baked in the oven will be appreciated by real gourmets.
How to cook pike cutlets
To make homemade pike cutlets very tasty, the most important thing is to use the freshest fish carcass. It must be washed and dried with a paper towel, then gutted, freed from bones and skin. Scroll the fillet 1-2 times in a meat grinder with a fine nozzle. Cooked minced meat must be used immediately without freezing.
To add juiciness to pike cutlets:
- fat;
- fatty pork;
- butter;
- mayonnaise;
- sour cream;
- vegetables, etc.
If the minced pike is dry, it can be combined with potatoes, bread and milk, carrots, cabbage. Fresh or dry herbs, peppers, and herbs are used as seasonings, but experts advise against adding too many of these products so as not to interrupt the delicate taste of pike. To preserve the juiciness of the cutlets, it is recommended to bread them in breadcrumbs, semolina, flour, bran before frying and baking in the oven.
Classic pike cutlets
Prepare 1.5 kilograms of fresh pike fillet, scroll in a meat grinder. Beat a couple of eggs lightly with a broom. Wash and dry a bunch of parsley, peel off a couple of onions. Chop greens and onions, combine with minced meat, add eggs, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix the minced meat well, make cutlets of the same size. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Put the blanks on it and bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 ° C.
Juicy pike cutlets with sour cream in the oven
Cut a fresh pike carcass, screw the fillet in a meat grinder. Add a raw egg and half a glass of fat sour cream to the minced meat, salt and pepper to taste. Stir the ingredients until smooth. To make the cutlets lush and tender, you can use a simple culinary trick: to beat off the minced pike.
To do this, place the fish mass in a large saucepan, take in small portions and beat off, hitting the bottom of the dish. Make cutlets from the prepared minced meat, bread in semolina. You only need 2-3 tablespoons of cereals.
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Place the semi-finished products on a greased baking sheet and cook on one side for 15 minutes, then turn the patties and bake for another 15 minutes.
Spicy pike cutlets in the oven
Prepare 250 grams of fresh pike fillet. Soak a slice of white bread crumb in warm milk, squeeze. Peel the onion head and rotate it in a meat grinder together with fish and soaked bread.
Wash, dry and finely chop fresh dill, combine with minced meat. To taste, add table salt, freshly ground black pepper, as well as a gram of dry ground spices:
- paprika;
- thyme;
- coriander;
- nutmeg.
Form cutlets, bread in breadcrumbs. Bake on a greased baking sheet for 40 minutes at 180 ° C.
Pike cutlets with bacon in the oven
Soak the flesh of a stale loaf in a glass of warm milk, squeeze out after 5-6 minutes. Cut a couple of medium-sized pikes, prepare the minced meat from the pulp. Twice through a meat grinder 300 grams of skinless lard and mix with the fish mass. Peel the onion and chop very finely.
Combine minced meat with a raw egg, soaked bread, onions. Add 5 grams of table salt, pepper to taste and stir well. Sculpt the cutlets, bread in oat flour and bake for 40-45 minutes in the oven, heating it to 180 ° C.
Pike cutlets with cabbage in the oven
Soak the crustless loaf crumb in 0.5 cups of boiled milk. Scroll a kilogram of pike fillet and 250 grams of lard without skin. Free 700 grams of cabbage from hard veins and chop finely, peel and chop the onion.
Combine minced meat, bacon, onion, cabbage, squeezed bread and scroll through a meat grinder with a fine grid. Season with salt and pepper to taste, add a raw egg and mix.
Blind cutlets and roll in breadcrumbs on both sides. Place in a greased baking dish or on a baking sheet. Cook for 35-40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.
Diet pike cutlets with vegetables and herbs
Wash, dry vegetables and herbs for minced meat:
- 100 grams of milk zucchini;
- onion;
- carrots;
- 20 grams of green onion feathers.
Peel vegetables, cut into chunks, chop onion feathers. 0, 7 kg fillet of fresh pike twice through a meat grinder together with zucchini, carrots and onions. Mix the resulting minced meat with herbs.
Add an egg, salt and seasoning to taste, a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal. Stir the minced meat to get a homogeneous liquid mixture. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. Scooping up the same portions of fish and vegetable mass with a spoon, spread out in the form of not very thick cakes on a baking sheet. Bake light and quick cutlets in a preheated oven for only 20 minutes.
Pike cutlets with carrots baked in tomato sauce
The recipe is suitable for avid fishermen if you need to quickly process a rich catch at home. You will need 6-7 pikes weighing about 400 grams. Carcasses need to be skinned, separated from the bones and the pulp must be rolled in a blender. Hard boil 3 eggs, chill and peel. Boil a glass of broth from the fish heads and strain.
Remove the husk and finely chop a couple of onions, peel and finely grate 2 large carrots. Heat a small amount of refined vegetable oil in a cast-iron saucepan and fry the chopped vegetables in it until soft. Divide into 2 equal portions.
Grate eggs on a fine grater, combine with minced pike. Add 1 serving of carrot and onion stir-fry, salt and pepper to taste. Free a bunch of parsley and dill from the stems, chop and mix with the fish-vegetable mixture. Make cutlets from minced meat, roll in flour and fry over high heat in vegetable oil on both sides.
When the semi-finished products are golden brown, place them in a baking dish. Prepare the gravy separately in a saucepan. To do this, mix the second portion of the carrot-onion mixture with two glasses of tomato sauce, preferably homemade.
Finely chop a pod of marinated sweet pepper, combine with the gravy, pour in the fish broth. Season with salt and pepper to taste, add a tablespoon of granulated sugar. Pour tomato sauce over the cutlets and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 ° C.
Pike cutlets with pork in the oven
Free a pound of fatty pork from bones, wash, drain, scroll in a meat grinder together with a peeled onion. Prepare the same amount of minced pike. Soak a couple of pieces of crumb of a stale loaf for 5 minutes in 150 ml of milk, chop a bunch of parsley.
Mix well:
- minced pike;
- pork with onions;
- squeezed bread;
- a tablespoon of mayonnaise;
- salt to taste;
- freshly ground pepper to taste;
- egg;
- parsley.
Form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides in sunflower oil until lightly browned. Move the pan, in which the semi-finished products were fried, to the oven preheated to 180 ° C. Cook for 20-25 minutes.
