There are almost no bones in the meat of a sea rooster. The meat of this fish is white in color, tastes like mackerel, dense in consistency. Sea Rooster is an essential ingredient in the famous Marseille Bouillabaisse soup from French cuisine.
Instructions
Step 1
Sea rooster can be cooked in a variety of ways. Cooked in a double boiler, its meat is added to salads. It goes well with sea rooster fillet with leafy, juicy salad, eggs, herbs, fresh cucumbers, dressing based on lemon juice and olive oil.
Step 2
As a warm appetizer, sea rooster is cooked fried in breadcrumbs or batter and served on bamboo sticks. Sweet and sour citrus sauce goes well with this fish. In the form of a cold appetizer, a rooster carpaccio is prepared, dressed with a sauce made from parsley.
Step 3
You can also bake rooster with spinach or apples, and serve as a hot dish. The meat is fried with mushrooms and onions, and it also tastes great with cheese. Based on this, fillets can be baked with cheese or cooked in a pot. Soup made from grilled cheese and pieces of rooster fillet is very tasty.
Step 4
The sea cock is a very expensive and rare fish. To sell this type of fish, you need to have a special permit. It is almost impossible to buy a rooster on the free market, except from private merchants.
Step 5
The sea cock is listed in the Red Book and its catch is prohibited. That is why in the Black Sea resorts they do not prepare dishes from it, despite the fact that it is found near the coast. If you are lucky enough to get your hands on a sea cock, use the recipes below for a delicious seafood dish.
Step 6
You can cook stuffed poultry rooster. To prepare it, you will need 300 grams of fish, 200 grams of mayonnaise, several cloves of garlic, 50-100 grams of vegetable oil, pepper and salt.
Step 7
Peel the fish, pepper and salt. Make a couple of cuts across the back, in which place half the garlic cloves. Fill a small baking sheet with oil. After that, sprinkle the fish with flour on one side. When the fish is laid out on a baking sheet, you need to pour it with mayonnaise and cook in the oven for 20 minutes.
Step 8
In addition to the above method, you can steam this fish. You will need 2 fish, some olive oil, one lemon and one tomato, pepper and salt, and fresh basil.
Step 9
First of all, you need to pour boiling water over the tomato for a minute and peel it from the skin, then remove the seeds from it and cut into cubes. Cut the lemon into pieces of the same size (without the zest), mix it with tomatoes and oil, and then salt and pepper. You must cook the fish using a steamer, transfer to plates and pour over the prepared sauce. The sea cock is ready.
