Mackerel with vegetables - general principles of preparation
Mackerel is great not only in smoked form, but also cooked with vegetables. The dish will turn out inexpensive and very tasty, suitable even for a festive table. Combines fish with almost all vegetables - with tomato, potatoes, onions, carrots, eggplant. To make the dish tasty, you need to properly cut the fish.
Mackerel with vegetables - preparation of products and utensils
Mackerel can be cut in several ways. If you bake a fish, you can leave it whole by cutting the belly like a pocket. In this case, remove the head and tail, pull the giblets and remove the black film.
You can also cut the mackerel lengthwise by taking out the spine. You will get two pieces of fillet from one carcass, and from above you will spread the vegetables. All bones will need to be removed from the fish.
If you cook mackerel with vegetables in a pan, you can also cut it with steaks ...
What vegetables are useful for your dish? Onions, potatoes and carrots can be found at home with any housewife, but you can diversify the taste of fish by adding tomatoes, eggplant, pepper or fresh herbs to the mackerel. In addition, do not forget about sour cream or mayonnaise - these ingredients in the cooking process will soak the mackerel with vegetables and make it more juicy.
Mackerel recipes with vegetables:
Recipe 1: French Mackerel with Vegetables
French mackerel with vegetables is one of the favorite dishes of this nation, and just such a mackerel will be served to you in most French establishments. We do not consider onions as vegetables; rather, it is an additional product in the first and second courses, but the French have a different opinion (remember, for example, the famous onion soup). Make a mackerel with three kinds of onions and feel yourself in Paris.
Ingredients Required:
- Mackerel fish - 2 carcasses
- Leek - 1 stalk
- Onions - 1 piece
- Shallots - 100 grams
- Fat sour cream (not sour) - 120 ml
- Butter - 60 grams
Cooking method:
- Prepare the fish. It is best to cook the loin portion of the fish, and therefore cut it across, take out the ridge with bones, salt.
- Chop the onions finely, cut the leek into medium-sized rings. Cut shallots also, but not very finely.
- Melt the butter in a hot frying pan, put onions and shallots and fry for 4 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Put the mackerel on the foil, put onion and shallot mixture on top, and raw leek on top of the mixture. Salt and pour sour cream. Wrap the foil and send the fish to bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Then remove the top of the foil and bake for another 10 minutes.
Recipe 2: Mackerel with vegetables (with onions and carrots)
We will prepare this fish in a pan without spending too much time and effort. You will need carrots, onions and sour cream. Some housewives also add here a spoonful of tomato paste. The dish turns out to be satisfying, moderately fat and very tasty.
Ingredients Required:
- Mackerel - 2-3 fish
- Onions - 1 piece
- Carrot - 2 pieces
- Sour cream - 60 grams
Cooking method:
- Prepare the fish - you can cut it so that it turns out only the fillet, but you can cut it into steaks - pieces. In the first case, it will be nicer to eat, because you will not need to look for bones. In the second case, the fish will look more appetizing, but the bones can spoil the pleasant impression of the dish.
- Make the usual frying of chopped onions and grated carrots.
- Add fish to vegetables and pour sour cream. Stew mackerel with onions and carrots for 10 minutes.
Recipe 3: Mackerel with vegetables (with potatoes and spinach)
This delicious holiday dish is very loved in Italy. Not everyone understands why spinach is added and ask if cooking can do without it. Of course you can, but you will take half the usefulness from the dish. This juicy herb is rich in vitamin and protein, and therefore generously put it not only in mackerel with vegetables, but also in other dishes.
Ingredients Required:
- Potato - 5 pieces
- Mackerel - 2 fish
- Spinach - 1 bunch
- Vegetable oil
- Sour cream (not sour) - 80 grams
Cooking method:
- Mackerel needs to be cleaned, peeled and the spine removed. Salt the fish and put in the refrigerator.
- Peel and cut the potatoes into thin slices. Put it in a container of water, after a couple of minutes, drain it, repeat the procedure and do this until the water becomes clear. Then lay the potatoes on napkins and dry.
- Finely chop the spinach.
- Grease the baking deck with oil, put a layer of potatoes, salt and grease with sour cream. Place a fish on the potato, sprinkle with spinach on top. Pour all the sour cream, put the deck in the oven and cook at a temperature of 160 degrees 40 minutes.
Recipe 4: Mackerel with vegetables (tomato, basil and cheese)
Fish generally tastes delicious with vegetables, but with some - especially. Try another Italian recipe - baked mackerel with tomato, cheese and basil. Dishes will be very fragrant and not greasy.
Ingredients Required:
- Fish - 2 carcasses
- Tomatoes - 3 pieces
- Salty hard cheese - 150 grams
- Fresh basil
- Mayonnaise
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Cut the mackerel so that you get layers of boneless fillet.
- Scald tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin from it. Dice the vegetables. Put them in a sieve for 10 minutes to stack the juice. Wash the basil, cut, add to the tomatoes, salt and mix.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and add to the mixture of tomatoes with basil.
- Put the mackerel on a greased deck, a tomato and cheese on it, pour a small amount of mayonnaise on top. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees.
Recipe 5: Mackerel with vegetables (with eggplant)
A tasty dish in which at first glance it is simply impossible to recognize mackerel with vegetables. Cooking it fast, easy and inexpensive.
Ingredients Required:
- Fish - 2 pieces
- Eggplant - 2 pieces
- Tomatoes - 2 pieces
- Onion - 1 piece
- Sour cream - 120 grams
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Remove the skin from the fish, remove the bones and finely chop the fillet into cubes.
- Shred onion finely.
- Dice tomato and eggplant.
- Preheat the pan, grease and fry the onion until golden, add eggplant, fish and tomatoes. Five minutes later, when the liquid from the vegetables evaporates, add sour cream to the dish. Fry for 15 minutes, stirring.
Mackerel with vegetables - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Mackerel with vegetables will be delicious, not only if you cook it on the stove or in the oven, but also in a slow cooker. Heat the bowl, grease with butter and put the ingredients there. You need to cook the fish for 30 minutes in the "Frying" or "Stewing" mode.
- If you have an air grill, then with its help you cook a delicious mackerel with vegetables. Wrap the fish in foil and lay on the middle grill. Cook for 30 minutes at 200 degrees ...
- Do not forget to use greens. Parsley, dill and basil will decorate the taste, and spinach will also add brightness and color. When serving, use fresh lettuce.
- To make the mackerel with vegetables tastier, you can add non-sour cream, cream or mayonnaise to the dish.
- Instead of salt, you can use a small amount of soy sauce. Sprinkle the fish fillet with soy sauce, wrap in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes.
