Properly baked fish may well become a great addition to not only everyday, but also a festive table, the main thing is to know what to combine this product with. In the circle of housewives, recipes for cooking goodies using rice, vegetables and hard cheese have gained deserved popularity. True, there are several options for creating a full-fledged second course in the oven. Of course, each cooking process will have its own characteristics, which it is better to know about before you begin to perform specific actions.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
On the shelves you can find both peeled and unpeeled pink salmon carcasses, but in any case, the fish should not be shabby and without an unpleasant odor. The belly of a quality product is even, fairly flat (unless caviar is inside), the scales are shiny and smooth, and the gills are light red in color, not pale. If you buy a frozen product, then pay attention to the layer of ice: a dense crust should not cover all the fish.
As for the other products, each of them should be as fresh as possible, which will be confirmed by a uniform color and the absence of putrefactive odor. Before cooking, the fish is almost completely thawed and often cut into several portions, vegetables are peeled, washed and cut in the manner specified in the recipe.
Did you know? The abundance of pink salmon in places of its mass catch varies depending on even and odd years. For example, in the rivers of Primorye, fish is most frequent in odd years, while in even its numbers are insignificant, and fishing vessels do not receive enough revenue.
Oven recipes for pink salmon with rice
Despite the large number of recipes for creating baked pink salmon, the most popular options are deservedly include vegetable dishes, which, in addition to the fillet of the fish itself, also include carrots, onions, spinach. No less common additive is hard cheese, which can melt under the influence of high temperatures inside the oven and make the delicacy more juicy and aromatic. In any case, no matter what method of baking pink salmon you choose, you should always follow the step-by-step instructions for its preparation.
With vegetables in the oven
3–455 minutes
round rice (boiled)
1 cup
butter
50 g to lubricate the mold
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- First, cook the washed spinach and broccoli in a separate container, slightly salting the water (after boiling in the liquid for 2 minutes, first send the broccoli, and after removing the spinach, boil it for no longer than 1 minute).
- Lubricate the baking dish with vegetable oil and put rice cooked in salted water into it, leveling it with an even layer, 1 cm thick.
- Spread boiled broccoli and julienne carrots on top of the rice.
- The next layer is three portioned pieces of pink salmon.
- To create a fill, break 3 eggs into a separate bowl and beat them together with spinach and sour cream. For whipping, it is most convenient to use an immersion blender.
- Salt and pepper the fill to taste, and then pour everything onto the fish, about half filling the baking dish.
- Grate the cheese and, together with the nut crumbs, put it in a baking dish, covering all the previous ingredients.
- Place the future dish in an oven preheated to 160 degrees and leave to bake for 30-40 minutes. As soon as the surface is well browned - it's time to get the fish casserole.
Important! To the table, pink salmon with rice and vegetables is best served warm. So the dish will retain its flavor and will be characterized by amazing taste.
Baked in foil
440 minutes
pink salmon (frozen)
1 PC.
rice (boiled)
1.5 cups
mayonnaise (or sour cream)
1 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Peel slightly frozen fish and cut into slices 2-3 cm thick each.
- Cut a piece of foil (40–50 cm long or most at your discretion) and lay out the resulting fish pieces on it, placing them with the skin down.
- Sprinkle each piece of fish with salt and pepper, gently rubbing the seasoning into the texture of the fibers.
- Lubricate the surface of the fish with mayonnaise and lay out the onion, chopped in half rings, previously salting it with a small amount of salt.
- Pour the grated carrots on top of the onion so that it forms a kind of fur coat on the fish.
- At the end of the process of packing pink salmon, move the rice on top of the vegetables, gently leveling it with a spoon or forming a small mound (it should be placed in the center of the dish).
- Wrap the fish in foil, covering it with another part of the same sheet, and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
- After the specified time, remove the appetizer from the oven, wait until it cools down a little and put it on the serving plates.
Important! For baking pink salmon in foil, it is best to prepare a glass container in which the fish can evenly bake from all sides.
In a slow cooker
450 minutes
pink salmon
1 PC. (weighing about 1 kg)
vegetable oil
50 g for frying
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Defrost pink salmon, wash it under running water, and if necessary, get rid of entrails and head. Cut into suitable portions.
- Spread the meat with mayonnaise, picking up each part of the fish.
- Peel onions and carrots, chop them into cubes.
- Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and pour the prepared onion, frying it on all sides for about 5 minutes (stirring regularly in the "Frying" mode).
- After the onions are ready, add the carrots to the bowl and continue to fry everything together for another 5–7 minutes.
- Pour the washed rice to the fried vegetables, leave the ingredients to fry for another 2-3 minutes, and then put the spices and pour water, gently mixing the future side dish.
- On the rice surface, put pieces of pink salmon greased with mayonnaise, close the multicooker lid, set the mode to “Pilaf” or “Baking” and cook until the appliance sounds (on average, the cooking process takes no more than half an hour).
- Before serving, it is recommended to sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs, which will make it even more fragrant and mouth-watering.
Did you know? With regular use of pink salmon meat, a person is less likely to get a sunburn, which is associated with the presence of a large amount of zinc in the fish, which protects the skin from ultraviolet radiation.
Each of the described recipes is tasty and original in its own way, so if you like to cook and really appreciate pink salmon, you should try each option. So that the result will definitely please you and not deceive expectations, be sure to adhere to the given amount of ingredients and the sequence of all actions.
