Pink salmon is a noble variety of fish. Her meat is appreciated not only by a set of trace elements and vitamins, but also by the fact that its consumption does not affect body weight. This moderately oily tasty fish is recommended for children and adults. The article suggests several recipes on how to cook pink salmon in kefir marinade.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
The secret to successfully making pink salmon is fresh fish.
Therefore, when buying, pay attention to the fact that the carcass should be with:
- fishy fresh smell;
- white (light) belly;
- pink gills;
- wet, slightly slippery tail;
- tight-fitting, shiny scales.
Start by washing and gutting pink salmon, if the fish is not frozen (then it is previously thawed). Subsequently, the meat is processed in accordance with the selected recipe. To cook juicy and tender meat, try to stand it before frying or baking in kefir marinade. For its preparation you will need fresh low-fat kefir.
Did you know? Pink salmon refers to fish whose gender changes with age. So, at birth, most individuals are females, but in the process of growing up, some of them become males.
Recipes for making pink salmon in kefir marinade
Pink salmon is easy to prepare. Even an inexperienced cook can bake it in the oven. Refined taste in a mouth-watering dish is given by marinade or sauce. It is often recommended to withstand meat for about 30 minutes. before baking in the oven. Baked fish always looks appetizing on a table surrounded by any products.
Portioned in foil
1 kg40 min.
pink salmon
1 PC. (600-800 g)
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pour kefir into a bowl and add 5 tbsp. l soy sauce.
- Add pepper and mix.
- Cut the prepared fish into portions and pour the marinade.
- Cut the peeled onions in half rings and fry in a pan until golden brown for about 5 minutes.
- Washed tomatoes cut into circles.
- Grate hard cheese on a medium grater. Peel and chop the garlic.
- Cut the foil into squares and form a baking dish in the form of a boat.
- At the bottom of the molds, pink salmon is laid out, then garlic and fried onions, 2 cups of tomato each.
- Pour the prepared preparations with marinade.
- Sprinkle the surface with cheese.
- Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C and cook for 20–25 minutes. Serve hot without removing from molds. Garnish with greens.
Video recipe
Portioned in foilImportant! It is not recommended to keep pink salmon in the oven when baking, otherwise it will become too dry and hard.
Whole
1 kg60 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash fresh pink salmon, gut, remove the head and fins, peel. On the sides of the fish make cuts.
- Prepare the marinade by mixing kefir with soy sauce. Add finely chopped garlic.
- To process pink salmon with marinade, including inside, leave to marinate for 15 minutes. Then turn over and immerse in the marinade on the other side for another 15 minutes.
- Cut the peeled onions in half rings or a cube, fry in a pan in vegetable oil until golden brown. Estimated frying time - 3 minutes.
- Grate hard cheese.
- Wash and chop the tomatoes in circles.
- Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C. Pour the marinade into the baking dish, put the fish on it. Sprinkle onion and put tomatoes on top, sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Put in the oven for 20–25 minutes. Serve hot fish with any side dish.
Video recipe
WholeImportant! If frozen fish is used for cooking, then it is thawed gradually. First you need to put on the middle shelf of the refrigerator for 2 hours, and only then take it out on the table, otherwise the meat will crumble.
In the pan
700 g30–40 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash, gut, peel and cut the fish into separate steaks. Pour kefir into a bowl, add salt and pepper.
- Fry the peeled onions in vegetable oil until tender.
- Dip steaks in kefir sauce and put on fried onions.
- Pour the rest of the sauce onto the fish and cover the pan with a lid. Stew for 15 minutes. over low heat. Then turn to the other side and continue cooking for another 15 minutes.
- Serve the fish with rice. To make it a beautiful pistachio color, add spinach when cooking.
Video recipe
In the panDid you know? The lines on the gill circles of pink salmon are individual. They are not repeated in the same way as fingerprints in humans.
The perfect combination for pink salmon is rice, but you can serve it with any other side dish. Fish belongs to low-calorie foods, so it perfectly complements fatty foods, making dinner balanced and beneficial for the digestive system.