Recipe for catfish. How to cook delicious fish

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The recipe for catfish should take into account the peculiarities of cooking this fish. Large specimens are very tough, it is difficult to eradicate the marsh specific smell from their meat. However, if you succeed, then they will come in handy in order to cook catfish dishes. Photos (recipes illustrated) show how appetizing dense flesh this fish has. Catfish is considered the most delicious if it is small enough and does not exceed half a meter in length.

Pre-training

Catfish (cooking recipes with photos show that pieces of this fish are always served without skin) does not have scales. But its surface is covered with unpleasant mucus. If it is not removed, then the dish that this recipe will help us prepare (according to it, catfish should be subjected to several types of heat treatment) will give off mud and swamp. It is better to clean this fish immediately and from the skin. Or remove it during the primary heat treatment. Rub the cleaned carcass with coarse rock s alt (you can use sea s alt).

Remove the insides from the ripped abdomen. Cut off the gills, fins, head and tail. Rub the inside with the same s alt. Rinse after a couple of minutes. Cut into portions and drizzle with lime or lemon juice.

Easy recipe

Catfish is better to cook without adding a lot of oil, because it is a fatty fish. But you don’t need to feel sorry for spices - fragrant herbs will come in handy. Let's start with the simplest recipe. Catfish, of course, can be smoked, stuffed, baked and made into meatballs. But all of the above already requires a little more skill. In a frying pan, you can cook breaded fish with almost no skills. Rub the pieces with s alt (do not overdo it if the catfish was already s alted during the cleaning process), sprinkle with spices.

Dip alternately in flour breading and then in boiling oil (we remind you that it should be a little). Serve with lemon on the table. The double batter is no more complicated, but will make the catfish (especially if it is large and hard) more juicy and tender. Take two plates and pour the flour with spices into the first, the so-called lezon (an egg beaten with s alt and a drop of milk) into the second. Dip a piece of catfish first in the dry mixture, then in the egg, and then again in the dry. Fry in vegetable oil in the same way as in the previous recipe.

Delicacy baked in sour cream

In the oven, catfish is best cooked wrapped in foil. A small carcass can be stuffed with herbs, lemon slices. Large - stuff with boiled buckwheat with fried carrots. To carcassnot overdried, you need to bake it from 35 to 50 minutes. You can also bake catfish in sour cream to keep it juicy. To do this, cut it into portions, roll in flour, fry. Then put in a baking dish, pour sour cream and leave in the oven for half an hour. The liquid will evaporate, and the catfish will be covered with a delicate crust. In order to make the taste of the dish richer, it can be baked with vegetables. For example, with browned onions or slices of boiled celery.