There are many options for cooking fish. It can be fried, stewed, steamed … Today we will talk about how to cook fish properly. For cooking, they use such types of fish as flounder, hake, trout, halibut, carp and many others.
To cook fish you will need:
- 1 kg of any fish,
- 1 head of medium-sized onion
- 200 gr carrots
- 4 bay leaves, 8-10 pcs. peppercorns,
- dill and parsley,
- salt.
Boiled fish preparation method:
- Take the fish, remove the scales, take out the insides, cut out the gills, wash well.
- A small fish is cooked whole, and it is advisable to cut a large fish into pieces.
- But you don't need to cook large and small things together.
- In order for the fish to remain intact during cooking, make notches on it with a sharp knife.
- Place the peeled and washed fish in a saucepan, peel up, pour boiling water so that the fish is two fingers under water.
- Then put coarsely chopped onions, carrots, bay leaves, black pepper, herbs and table salt there.
- When it boils strongly, you need to remove the foam and then make a small fire and cook until tender.
- When choosing pike, flounder, cod or sterlet for cooking, the cooking time is 20-25 minutes.
- But pike perch, pink salmon and trout are cooked faster, only a quarter of an hour. It is necessary to find out whether our fish has been cooked in this way by trying to separate the fin from a piece or a whole fish.
- In the event that it comes off easily, then the fish is ready.
Bon Appetit!
