A mullet is a schooling sea fish, inhabiting small depths, near the shore. Also in the people, it is called a sultan, because only sultans were allowed to eat it. This tender fish has a slightly sweet taste and a bit like crab meat. It is tasty in any form - stewed, smoked, fried in a frying pan and salty. Let's consider with you options for how to cook a mullet.
The recipe for a mullet
Ingredients:
- bulb - 2 pieces;
- mullet - 3 pieces;
- wine vinegar - 20 ml;
- olives without pits - 200 g;
- thyme - 2 stems;
- olive oil - 20 ml;
- grape juice - 200 ml;
- sauce teriyaki - 20 ml;
- potato - 100 g;
- butter-125 g;
- milk cow - 50 ml;
- a leaf of a beet - 12 pieces;
- celery leaf - 16 pcs .;
- spice.
Preparation
We put the peeled and chopped onions in a container, pour in wine vinegar and grape juice . Then add the olive oil and thyme. We cover the container with food film and pick it in the refrigerator for several weeks. Olives are poured into a cup, put in a microwave, cut 10 minutes and completely dried, then shredded with a blender to form a powder.
We boil the potatoes until they are ready, add a slice of cream butter, pour in the milk and turn them into mashed potatoes. With a mullet take off the fillets neatly and fry it on melted butter on low heat, podsalivaya to taste. On a plate we spread an air cap from a mashed potatoes, we put a mullet on top of it and sprinkle with crushed olives. We decorate the dish with celery leaves, beets and serve to the table together with teriyake and pickled onion.
Recipe for mackerel in the oven
Ingredients:
- mullet fillet - 8 pieces;
- cherry tomatoes - 15 pcs .;
- olive oil - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- pine nuts - 40 g;
- bulb - 1 piece;
- raisins dry - 30 g;
- capers - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- olives without pits - 40 g;
- mint, basil - to taste;
- spice.
Preparation
Raisins wash with cold water and pour for 20 minutes hot, then squeeze well. Nuts fry lightly in a dry frying pan. We clean the onion and finely chop it. Capers are washed and dried. Tomatoes shred on 4 parts.
Now we warm up the frying pan with butter and first pass the onion, then add capers, raisins, nuts and olives. We cook 5-7 minutes, put tomatoes, mix, cover with a lid and cook for 10 minutes. Now remove the sauce from the plate, add chopped finely mint and mix. Oven warm up to 180 degrees. Fish are washed, processed and laid out in a roasting dish. Solim, pepper to taste, sprinkle with oil, cover with sauce and bake for 15 minutes.
Recipe for a fried mullet
Ingredients:
- ginger root - 5 g;
- peanut oil -1;
- mullet - 2 pieces;
- salt sea;
- coriander - 0.25 beam.
For sauce:
- orange - 2 pieces;
- seeds of coriander - pinch;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
We clean the fish, leave the head and tail, wash it in cold water and drain it. In a small frying pan, lightly fry the coriander seeds and as soon as they darken, pour them on the table and crush them with the flat side of the knife.
From orange squeeze juice, pour it into a saucepan with a heavy bottom and, stirring, cook on moderate fire for about 15 minutes.
Fill with a small amount of cold water and bring to a boil. Next, boil exactly 2 minutes, and then drain the water and let the ginger cool. Peanut butter is heated in a frying pan so that it begins to hiss, sprinkle the mullet with salt, put it in boiling oil and fry from both sides, until it is ready. We serve fried mullet with orange slices, cilantro giants, boiled ginger and orange sauce.