Cooking pike cutlets: a few recipes

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

Pike meat is considered a he althy dietary product. The most valuable and delicious, according to culinary specialists, are small fish up to 2.5 kg. Their meat is very soft and juicy, and pike cutlets are tender. This fish, compared to other freshwater inhabitants, contains the least amount of bones.

In addition, it contains various vitamins and microelements that are of great importance for the proper development of a person. And the last advantage is that the meat of this fish is low-calorie, so it can be consumed by absolutely everyone (only 89 kcal per 100 gr.). We will not delve into a more detailed description of the freshwater beauty, it is better to prepare nutritious pike cutlets with pork.

Buy a kilo of fish fillets. You will also need the following items:

- milk (150 ml);

- semolina (50 gr.);

- white bread (2 slices);

- pork meat (200 gr.);

- egg;

- s alt, pepper.

Dip bread in milk and leave to soften. We pass the fish fillet and pork through a meat grinder, it is better several times so that all the bones turnin puree. We drive an egg into the fish and meat mass, season with spices and add flour to make the minced meat homogeneous and not watery. Next, we form cutlets from pike and fry in oil. Serve boiled rice or potatoes with dill as a side dish.

Steamed pike cutlets in breadcrumbs

Ingredients:

- fresh pike;

- two eggs;

- onion;

- sour cream (10 gr.);

- carrot;

- white bread (2 slices);

- garlic (2 cloves);

- flour (20 gr.);

- sesame;

- cilantro;

- s alt, pepper.

Gut the fish, cut off the head, fins and tail, wash, separate the loin and scroll in a meat grinder with onion, bread and garlic. Add grated carrots, sour cream, eggs, finely chopped cilantro, s alt, black pepper and sesame seeds to the contents - mix thoroughly.

To add airiness, you need to beat the mass on the table, then mold round cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and send to a double boiler for half an hour. A light, low-calorie dish retains all the nutrients. Minced pike cutlets prepared in this way can also be given to children along with mashed potatoes.

Third, no less delicious freshwater fish recipe with cheese. To prepare cutlets, you will need the following set of products:

- half a kilo of pike fillet;

- cheese (200 gr.);

- eggs (2 pcs.);

- onion;

- butter (50 gr.);

- semolina (20 gr.);

- breadcrumbs;

- dill, red pepper and Adyghe s alt (to taste).

Remove the skin from the fish, separate from the bones, wash and grind several times. Onions should be cut into cubes, carrots grated and mixed with minced meat. Squeeze it out so that the glass is excess liquid, and add grated cheese, butter, herbs, beaten eggs with s alt and pepper, add semolina.

Wet hands with water and make oval cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and send them to a heated frying pan. We fry on both sides. We spread the finished pike cutlets on green lettuce leaves, pour over with lemon juice and sprinkle with fresh herbs. Bon appetit!

You can add any ingredients to your taste in minced meat. Or you can sprinkle a whole fish with plenty of s alt and bake in the oven. Under the "s alt coat" the meat acquires juiciness, special tenderness and amazing aroma. Enjoy delicious dishes from this amazing and valuable fish.