If you are afraid of drying the fish during baking, then use a sheet of foil, which reliably retains all moisture and aromas. Among other things, fish in an envelope of foil can be supplemented with a variety of sauces, citrus juice or wine, as the foil does not allow liquid. In the recipes of this material, we will learn more about how to prepare mackerel in the oven in foil.
Recipe for mackerel in foil in the oven
Almost all the fish are perfectly combined with the classical flavors of oriental cuisine, like soy sauce, ginger and rice wine. Once again, we try to prove this in the following recipe.
Ingredients:
- mackerel carcasses - 620;
- onion - 95 g;
- ginger root - 1 pc. (4 cm);
- cloves of garlic - 3 pcs .;
- hot pepper - to taste;
- a bunch of green onions;
- rice vinegar - 5 ml;
- Cherry tomatoes - 240 g;
- soy sauce - 35 ml.
Preparation
Gutting and rinsing the carcass of mackerel, chop them with a large sea salt, rubbed with garlic teeth and hot pepper. Divide the ginger root into pieces and put them into the gutted fish abdomen along with the feathers of the green onion. Sprinkle the fish with a mixture of soy sauce and rice vinegar. Cover the work surface with foil and lay on the sheet a slide of onion rings. Top with fish and tomatoes. Fold the foil with an envelope. How much baked mackerel in foil in the oven is determined by the size of the fish itself, but the average carcass will take no more than 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
Mackerel in foil in oven with lemon
You can speed up the preparation of fish if you previously separate the fillets. To do this, pass a knife along the ridge and begin to gradually descend along the costal bones towards the abdominal cavity, trying to grab as much pulp as possible.
Ingredients:
- Hake fillets - 830 g;
- butter - 25 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- cloves of garlic - 3 pcs .;
- white wine (dry) - 55 ml;
- laurel leaves - 2 pcs.
Preparation
Abundantly season both pieces of fillet with sea salt. Cut the butter and spread on one of the pieces of fish. At the top, place the leaves of the laurel, and behind them the garlic teeth cut into petals. Cover the first fillet with a second piece and wrap it with a double sheet of foil. Do not seal the envelope to the end, pour the wine into it and close the hole.
We prepare mackerel in the oven in foil at 200 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
Baking mackerel with rice in foil in the oven
Mackerel, like any other fish, you can bake in foil directly with a garnish, putting the last in the abdomen of the fish. As a side dish in this variation of the dish, we use simple rice, which we supplement with spices and vegetables.
Ingredients:
- rice - 1 item;
- seeds of coriander - 1 teaspoon;
- turmeric - 5 g;
- onion - 75 g;
- sweet pepper - 85 g;
- ground paprika - 1 teaspoon;
- cloves of garlic - 2 pcs .;
- raisins - 55 g;
- carrots of mackerel - 780 g.
Preparation
Boil the rice, season it with turmeric and paprika. Seeds of coriander fry, moulder in a mortar and add to the croup. Spare the vegetables and combine them with raisins. Add the vegetables and raisins to the boiled rice, then fill the croup cavity in the carcass. Wrap the fish with foil and bake for 25 minutes at 190 degrees.
Preparation of mackerel in the oven in foil
Ingredients:
- mackerel - 3 carcass;
- butter - 55 g;
- a handful of parsley and onion greens;
- onion - 35 g;
- lemon juice - 35 ml;
- a pinch of cayenne pepper;
- Dijon mustard - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- cloves of garlic - 2 pcs.
Preparation
Scrub the onion, chop the greens and chili the garlic clove. Combine all the prepared ingredients with the remaining ingredients from the list and put everything in the cavity of the fish carcass. Wrap the mackerel with a sheet of foil and leave in the oven at 200 degrees for 25 minutes.