Nototenia is a delicious fish that is baked, fried, used to make stuffed pancakes. In addition, very rich fish soups can be prepared from notothenia.
Baked Notothenia
To prepare baked notothenia, you will need the following ingredients: 300 g of fish, 100 ml of milk, half a head of onion, 2 tablespoons of sour cream, 50 g of hard cheese, salt to taste, fresh parsley.
Notottenia goes on sale in the form of carcasses with cut off heads and tail. Therefore, it is enough to defrost the fish before cooking, remove the remaining scales and rinse thoroughly under running cold water. Carcasses are dried with paper towels.
A baking dish is greased with vegetable oil. On the bottom of the form, spread the notation. The fish is poured with milk and salted to taste. Onions are cut in half rings and fried in vegetable oil. The finished onion is placed on top of the fish. The ingredients are smeared with sour cream and sprinkled with grated cheese.
Nototenia is baked at a temperature of 180-200 ° C, setting the form to the middle level of the oven. After about half an hour, the fish is removed from the oven and sprinkled with chopped parsley. Then the notothenia is cooked for another 5-10 minutes. The fish is completely ready when the cheese turns into a golden brown crust.
Fried notothenia
To prepare fried notothenia, you will need the following ingredients: fish, bread crumbs, salt, spices, vegetable oil for frying.
Prepared carcasses are rubbed with salt and spices and left alone for a quarter of an hour. Vegetable oil is poured into a dry frying pan and heated over high heat. The fish is dipped in breadcrumbs and fried on both sides until golden brown. Serve fried nototenia to the table with a side dish of boiled potatoes.
Notothenia and salmon soup
Products required for cooking: 3 notothenia carcasses, 3 potato tubers, 2 carrots, 2 onions, 50 g of millet, black peppercorns, bay leaves, salt to taste, fresh dill. Broth will require fins and head trimmings.
2.5 liters of water are poured into a saucepan and put on high heat. The cuttings from the head and the fins of the salmon are placed in the water. The broth will take about 20 minutes to cook. This is enough time to prepare vegetables.
Onions are finely chopped, carrots are cut into thin cubes, and potatoes are cut into small wedges. The fish broth is filtered and chopped potato tubers and washed millet are placed in it. When the potatoes become soft, nototeenia is added to the soup, peeled, bones and cut into small pieces.
Onions and carrots are fried in vegetable oil until golden brown.
As soon as the soup boils, put a couple of bay leaves, a few black peppercorns and fried onions and carrots in it. When serving, sprinkle the soup with chopped parsley.
