How to cook bream in the oven

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The bream fish is not classified as a delicacy, which means that it has little fat and a lot of small bones. But if you work hard enough, then from this modest inhabitant of lakes and rivers you will get a gourmet dish. So that your guests do not distinguish bream from trout, you need to resort to the help of little secrets, certain rules, following which we can “ennoble” our delicious fish. First, you should thoroughly clean and gut the carcass. This is not so easy to do, because the scales are very tight to each other. To get to the meat, you need to sprinkle the entire surface with coarse s alt, wait a bit, and then, starting from the tail, scrape against the scales.

Then we release the fish from the gills, entrails, eyes. We wash the carcass and dry it. Now the second secret: how to get rid of countless small bones? With a sharp knife, make shallow cuts along the body from head to tail every half a centimeter. Then, during heat treatment, small bones will be baked so that they will no longer be felt. Now it's time to think about how to cook the bream.

There are many recipes: we should proceed from the fact that if we are not going to dry or dry the fish, we need to tryso that the carcass does not lose fat during cooking. To do this, you either need to pre-fry the sides until a crust forms, and when baking, wrap the fish or even a baking sheet with foil. Bream dishes will turn out especially fragrant and tasty if, before heat treatment, rub the outside of the carcass with spices, s alt, pepper, and sprinkle with lemon juice or inside

and put slightly pickled onion rings and herbs (basil sprigs, parsley, cilantro, dill) into the belly. To prevent the filling from falling out, the edges of the abdomen should be fastened with toothpicks.

How to cook bream in the oven? Spread a baking sheet with vegetable oil, put the carcass wrapped in foil on it. If you cook fish right away with a side dish, for example, with potatoes, then lay finely chopped circles of the root crop next to it and wrap the entire baking sheet with foil, then put it in a preheated oven for half an hour. Remove the foil, pour everything with sour cream or heavy cream and send to bake for another quarter of an hour. Before serving the bream on the table, do not forget to remove the greens from the belly, and sprinkle the fish itself with dry white wine and lemon juice.

Here is another recipe for how to cook bream in the oven. Cook separately buckwheat porridge - not very much, a portioned bag (100-150 g) is enough. Fry onions in oil until golden brown, boil a hard-boiled egg. Add onions and eggs to the porridge: finely chopped boiled, as well as shaken raw. We clean the fish, gut it, wash it, dry it, rub it with s alt. We stuff the carcass with porridge, fix the sides with toothpicks. On greasedWe spread the bream on a baking sheet, sprinkle it with breadcrumbs and bake for half an hour. Then pour sour cream and still let stand in the oven. Before serving, pour the resulting sauce

and sprinkle with dill.

Few people know how to cook bream in a pan. It is necessary to cut the fish into portioned pieces, removing the tail, fins and head, breaded each in a mixture of flour and s alt, and then fry on all sides in vegetable oil until a crust forms. In a deep cast-iron frying pan, put the onion, pre-fried until golden brown, fish on it and pour a glass of sour cream. Stew like this on low heat for a quarter of an hour, then add spices, s alt and cook for another 10 minutes. Two minutes before removing from the stove, sprinkle the bream with grated cheese.