Fish for a festive feast is cool! Fish dishes are popular among women because they are lower in calories. Bream baked in the oven will appeal not only to lovely ladies, but also to all other guests.
It is very easy to prepare aromatic bream with a crispy crust. This is probably why it is served so often on restaurant menus. When made at home, fish deserves special attention for the holiday.
To bake holiday bream in the oven you will need: a chilled bream carcass, various types of onions, high-quality olive oil, lemon, dill, salt, spices to taste, mustard beans, sour cream (optional).
Let's get started. If possible, ask the market trader to clean your bream so as not to waste time and energy on this not always pleasant task. The fins of a large fish are prickly for the gentle hands of the owner. Male chefs will have it a little easier, of course.
So, the bream is cleared of scales. Next, the head and tail are cut off with a fish hatchet. The carcass is cut from below, as shown in the photo, and gutted. After that, the fish should be washed in running water and lightly dried with a paper towel. Then add salt on all sides and transfer to a plate for further preparation.
The onions are peeled and chopped into half rings. Dill is also chopped here. Onions and dill are mixed. The belly is stuffed with the resulting filling.
You need to make small slits on the back of one side of the carcass using a sharp knife. Thin lemon slices are inserted there.
The bream preparation is placed in a mold and generously sprinkled with olive oil intended for frying, stewing or baking.
Now the carcass can be peppered. After this, the fish skin is smeared with grainy mustard or mustard mixed with sour cream. I settled on the second option. Mixed a teaspoon of mustard with a tablespoon of sour cream and added salt.
I went over the carcass with a silicone brush and immediately sent the mold into the preheated oven. The fish should catch immediately. Then the top can be lightly covered with a sheet of foil, but after 20 minutes, open again and cook until golden brown.
Bream baked in the oven is ready to serve!
Carefully transfer to a festive flat plate. The fish is decorated with fresh herbs or vegetables.
I decorated the bream to my taste, so don’t judge strictly.
For a long time, I deliberately excluded bream from my menu because of its bonyness, which I now regret. If you properly bake the whole bream in the oven, using a large specimen of the fish, the problem will be solved by itself. I offer recipes that I have mastered recently. Having fallen in love with healthy fish, I now cook it with sour cream and mayonnaise, season it with salt, and sometimes stuff it. More often I bake it whole, directly into the scales in foil. This has its own bonuses, since the fish turns out incredibly juicy, the meat is very tasty, and the bones in the bream are almost invisible.
What is especially pleasing is that bream dishes have low calorie content. Judge for yourself, without adding other products, in 100 g. dishes are only 109 kcal. The dish is filling, you can eat just a little and survive until the next meal without any problems.
How to properly bake bream in the oven
I’m sharing baking secrets that will help you understand that bream is an amazingly tasty fish, and bones are not a hindrance.
- For cooking in the oven, it is better to select large specimens; use small fish for frying. Large fish have less bones and more meat.
- Remove the scales - this is the most labor-intensive job. The exception is if you decide to cook the whole bream in the simplest way, there is this recipe.
- Many argue that when roasting whole, there is no need to remove the insides. I advise you to get rid of it. If the gallbladder ruptures, it spreads bitterness into the belly of the fish - the dish will be ruined. Be sure to remove the gills, even if you leave the head.
- Before placing in the oven, make small cuts on the carcass so that the spices have a chance to soak into the meat.
- Don't like the fishy smell? Use lemon, its juice will drown out the unpleasant taste and smell.
- If you like a crispy crust on your fish, brush the top with sour cream, mayonnaise or butter.
Calorie content of bream
Fish meat is low in calories , so it can be consumed in various diets. Calorie content also depends on the form in which the fish is consumed.
- Fresh bream: calorie content - 105 kilocalories per 100 grams of product;
- Dried bream: calorie content – 221 kilocalories per 100 grams of product;
- Boiled bream: calorie content – 126 kilocalories per 100 grams of product;
- Smoked bream: calorie content – 160 kilocalories per 100 grams of product;
- Hot smoked bream: calorie content – 172 kilocalories per 100 grams of product;
- Sea bream: calorie content – 105 kilocalories per 100 grams of product.
As for carbohydrates, there are none in this product at all. The fat content of meat is no more than 5 grams per 100 grams of product. As mentioned earlier, the product is rich in proteins, so it is recommended to be used in various diets, especially those designed to gain muscle mass. Despite this, it is worth paying attention to the fact that bream is one of the fattiest fish. The larger the fish, the more fat it will contain. Therefore, those people who are concerned about their weight should consume young ones. In cooking, meat goes best with buckwheat and potatoes. Dill, lemon and suneli hops are ideal as seasonings.
Bream baked whole in foil with scales
According to avid fishermen, the most delicious fish will be obtained by baking bream with scales, without cutting, whole. In order not to lose a drop of fat and to maintain the juiciness of the meat, the best way is to cook it in foil. Then the dish will exceed all your expectations.
When baking in this way, the fish skin is easily removed from the bottom up. The scales do not fly off and do not interfere with eating. All the fat remains in the fish, making it juicy.
You will need:
- Large bream – 1.5-2 kg.
- Lemon.
- Black pepper.
- Salt.
- Garlic cloves – 2-3 pcs.
- Thyme, rosemary, any spices for fish - all seasonings of your choice.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Make a small cut on the belly of the bream. Reach in with your fingers and gently but firmly pull out the insides. Do not tear abruptly, so as not to disrupt the integrity of the gallbladder. If this happens, lengthen the incision and quickly and conscientiously rinse the inside of the abdomen. In the video offered at the end of the article, you can see how to remove the entrails through the back of the fish.
- Cut the carcass along the entire length diagonally (3-4 cuts).
- Squeeze the juice from the lemon, pepper, add other seasonings as desired, salt, garlic pulp. Stir the mixture. Rub the carcass, trying to get into the cuts, and put a little inside the fish.
- Place foil on a baking sheet and place the fish. If the tail of a large fish does not fit in length, trim it with scissors.
- Wrap the carcass in foil, leaving no holes. Place in the oven.
- Baking temperature – 180-190 o C. Baking time – hour. Take it out, unfold the sheet and check readiness. If necessary, if the bream weighs about two kilograms, return it back and hold for another 10 minutes. Transfer to a wide dish and begin the belly feast.
Use of bream meat in cooking
Bream is a very popular fish in Russia, it belongs to the Carp family, and small representatives of this species are called bream.
Of course, bream is a fish often found in cooking. And not in vain, because his meat is tasty and juicy. You can often hear that bream is similar to pike and pike perch. And in terms of the amount of fat, bream can be compared with carp and catfish. A small drawback that makes cooking bream difficult is the abundance of bones in the fish. It is believed that the most useful fish are those of medium size and age.
When purchasing, pay attention to the appearance of the fish and its expiration date. Be sure to choose freshly caught bream. How to cook bream? This fish can be prepared in various ways. It is fried, boiled, baked, and also prepared fish soup and aspic based on bream. Large individuals are used for smoking, pickling and frying.
Bream can be harmful to humans only if improperly prepared. The fish turns out to be dangerous after smoking. This process contributes to the appearance of carcinogens in the fish, and also increases the calorie content of bream. You should not eat this fish too often, so as not to cause an allergic reaction or nausea.
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There are more than 50 ways to prepare bream, because it is baked with cheese and olive oil, and aromatic herbs and seasonings are added. Bream is also good as an ingredient for hunting fish soup: it will add the necessary fat content to the dish.
You can also cook from bream:
- Fish cutlets or dumplings by turning the cut bream carcass 2 times in a meat grinder. You can cook from the resulting minced meat!
- Do you have any bream heads left? Cook fish soup from them, adding black pepper, salt and fresh herbs.
- Hunter-style bream is bream baked immediately after being caught from a reservoir in foil on a grill.
How to bake whole bream in foil in the oven
Using the list of ingredients from the previous recipe, cook the fish whole, but without scales, by cleaning the bream carcass. The only addition to the list is sunflower oil.
How to cook:
- Remove scales from the carcass. Gut the fish by making a cut in the belly. Remove the fins and head. Rinse and place on a napkin to absorb excess moisture.
- Rub the bream with pepper and salt all over the carcass.
- Cut the lemon into slices along with the zest. Finely chop the garlic cloves. Start the belly.
- Brush the fish with oil.
- Place on a sheet of foil and arrange sprigs of thyme and rosemary on top.
- Wrap the fish tightly and place in the oven. Bake at 180 o C for 30-40 minutes.
Bream in the oven with potatoes in mayonnaise - a very tasty recipe
The easy preparation of the dish will appeal to many housewives, especially if you persuade your husband to clean the bream.
- One and a half kilograms of bream.
- Potatoes – 2 kg.
- Mayonnaise – 100 gr.
- Parsley - a bunch.
- Seasoning for fish, salt - to taste.
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation:
- Prepare the fish by removing scales and entrails. Wash and dry.
- Make cuts along the carcass with a mesh. Rub with seasonings and salt. Let stand for 10-15 minutes so that the fish is soaked.
- Without wasting time, peel the potatoes. Cut into thick strips or rounds. Salt, add mayonnaise and pepper. Stir.
- Finely chop the parsley and put it in the belly of the bream. Secure with a toothpick to prevent fat from leaking out.
- Grease the pan with oil and place the fish. Place potato strips nearby.
- Send to bake at 180 o C. Cooking time 30 minutes. I advise you to stir the potatoes several times so that they do not remain soggy.
Stuffed bream with buckwheat and sour cream in the oven
You'll have to tinker a little, but the dish is worth it. In addition to buckwheat porridge, you can stuff bream with rice. The cooking technology is similar to this recipe. If you want to speed up the process and preserve the juiciness of the fish, bake the bream in a sleeve or foil, but this is not a necessary condition.
Take:
- The fish weighs about a kilogram.
- Ready-made buckwheat (rice) porridge – 400 gr.
- Eggs – a couple of pieces.
- Bulb.
- Butter – 50-60 gr.
- Dill - a small bunch.
- Sour cream – 120 ml.
- Breadcrumbs – 30 gr.
- Salt.
How to bake stuffed fish:
- The day before, cook crumbly buckwheat (how to cook it correctly,). Cool.
- Remove fish scales, entrails, and trim fins. Rinse the carcass thoroughly and dry it, spreading it on a napkin.
- Chop the onion into cubes and fry until golden.
- Boil one egg, chop finely. The second egg is used raw. Beat into a bowl and work with a fork, sprinkling in a little salt.
- In a separate bowl, mix buckwheat with fried onion and cubes of boiled egg. Add the beaten egg and salt. Stir.
- Stuff the belly of the bream.
- Place some of the breadcrumbs on the greased bottom of the pan and smooth it out. Place the stuffed fish on top.
- Pour sour cream over the top and sprinkle with the remaining crackers. I advise you not to pour it all out at once; during the cooking process, lubricate it with a new portion so that the top of the carcass does not dry out. Collect the fat rendered from the fish and water it too.
- Place in the oven. Temperature - 200 o C. bake for 35-40 minutes.
If you are not confident in your abilities, cook bream in the oven, following the recommendations from the video. May you always have delicious food!
Unfortunately, we don’t cook fish often, because it’s not so easy, especially when dealing with river fish. But sometimes you want to eat delicious, aromatic fish... In this case, bream in the oven in foil is a great option! You will only have to tinker at the cleaning stage, then everything is simple, and most importantly, the result will not leave anyone indifferent! Everyone will definitely lick their fingers and ask for more! So, how to deliciously bake bream in the oven...
For a simple traditional method of preparing baked bream in the oven from the equipment, in addition to a mold and a knife, we will need foil, as well as the following ingredients:
Before baking, you need to prepare the fish. To do this, wash the whole carcass, then clean it of scales and cut off the fins. After this, you need to remove the insides: we rip open the belly, remove everything inside, clean it of bones, and rinse the cavity under strong pressure of water. Then rub thoroughly with pepper and salt outside and inside. Let it soak.
Wash the lemon and cut into thin rings. Peel the garlic and finely chop it. We put all this inside the fish. Apply oil to the outside of the carcass, put rosemary and thyme on it. Then, so that there is only one seam and on top. Place the dough on a baking sheet. Set the oven to 180 degrees. We bake our fish for about half an hour.
The readiness of the fish can be understood by its pupils - if they turn white, then it’s time to get it.
Served with sour cream and fresh vegetables. Bon appetit!
The benefits of smoked and dried bream
The fish is very filling and nutritious due to its high content of easily digestible protein and a small amount of fat.
But the calorie content of bream per 100 g of edible product may vary depending on the cooking method:
Product | Calorie content (kcal) | Protein/fat (g) |
dried | 221 | 42/5,9 |
cold smoked | 160 | 29,7/4,6 |
Smoked fish is fattier, and its meat is more difficult to digest than other types of heat treatment (boiled, stewed, baked). In addition, it contains a lot of sodium, which should be avoided by hypertensive patients, people with peptic ulcers and those suffering from kidney disease.
Read also the description, characteristics and uses of sea bream.
There are also smoke components present here, which in large quantities can be harmful, so a product that is smoked in the traditional way in home smokehouses using only natural ingredients and good wood (alder, hazel) is more useful. Such bream has a completely different taste (it is compared to the taste of smoked chicken) than the product from industrial smokehouses, where the fish is treated with a chemical solution that gives it a smoked taste and a characteristic color.
Such fish can be recommended for consumption from time to time to those who have no contraindications to smoked fish, and it should only be a tasty and small addition to the diet.
Dried bream is healthier because it is processed only with salt and dried naturally. Small specimens and undergrowth are suitable for drying. Before eating, it is advisable to soak the fish to remove excess salt and make the meat softer. Drying food is the oldest method of preservation, and the shelf life of such fish is several years. The method is cheap and effective under suitable conditions.
Find out also how to deliciously cook bream with potatoes in the oven.
Fish in marinade
This method of cooking baked bream in the oven requires more time, but the result exceeds all expectations! Bream in foil turns out juicy, very tasty, and what a magical aroma it has!
We will need:
So, we prepare the fish: wash it, clean it, cut off the fins, remove the entrails and bones. Then . To do this, peel the onion and cut it into rings. Fill it with vegetable oil (enough to coat the fish). Add all the spices there, squeeze out the lemon juice and mix thoroughly. Coat the carcass very well on all sides, as well as inside, with marinade, put it in a container, pour the remaining marinade into it. Cover with a lid and let sit for at least 2 hours.
To ensure that the fish is completely soaked, you can make transverse cuts on its “sides”. And before baking, you can put lemon slices, garlic or tomato half rings there.
After our fish has been soaked, we can put it in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees. You can serve with fresh vegetables, potatoes, and rice.
How to cut and cook bream without feeling the bones
The answer to this question is simple: bake it whole and in the oven.
Cooking a whole bream (baking in the skin) has one important advantage for us: getting rid of annoying bones. When we cook it in this form in the oven, and then remove the skin from one side of the ribs and the spine, all the bones become visible, as if on an x-ray. You can immediately and easily remove them, and serve a completely “clean” fish dish that everyone can eat without difficulty.
Recipe for bream with vegetables
The recipe for bream baked with vegetables is ideal for a festive table: beautiful, immediately and very tasty!
To prepare we need:
Wash the fish, clean it, gut it and marinate it for a couple of hours. At this time we clean all the vegetables. We chop one onion finely, three carrots on a coarse grater. Let's fry. Cut the second onion and carrot into thin rings, all the potatoes into equal-sized pieces.
Line the bottom of the pan with foil and grease with oil. Lay out in layers: potatoes, carrots, onions. You need to lay it out approximately in the shape of the fish, but 3-4 centimeters more. Then add the prepared fish. Raise the edges of the foil as much as possible and wrap it up. Then we put another piece of foil on top and close the “holes”, try not to have large seams from which the juice could leak.
Each layer of vegetables can be coated with mayonnaise or sour cream, then the dish will turn out more juicy.
Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour. You can serve with sour cream sauce: mix sour cream, salt, pepper and fresh chopped herbs. Bon appetit!
Bream, baked in pieces
You can deliciously bake bream in the oven not only whole, but also in pieces.
To do this you will need the following set of products:
- 1 kg bream;
- 100 g of first or highest grade flour;
- 40 g butter;
- 120 ml medium fat milk;
- 1 small bunch of fresh parsley.
For spices, you will need salt and pepper in the required quantity.
- Rinse the carcass, gut it and cut into medium-sized portions.
- Pour milk into a deep plate and add salt. Soak the fish pieces in it for 13 - 16 minutes.
- Roll them on each side in flour and place on foil, laid out on a baking sheet and greased with vegetable oil.
- Melt the butter and pour it over the fish pieces.
- Wrap the foil loosely and place the baking sheet or baking dish in the oven.
By the time of loading, the oven should be preheated to 160 - 180 degrees, then the dish will be ready in 15 - 20 minutes.
It is recommended to serve this treat in portioned plates with parsley and fresh vegetables.
Fish stuffed with mushrooms
Any large fish can and should even be stuffed, because the result is an incredibly tasty dish! The most traditional filling option is.
We need:
As always, the first thing we do is process the fish: wash it, clean it, cut off the fins, get rid of the entrails and bones. Afterwards we wipe it with spices and send it to soak.
At this time, wash the mushrooms and cut them into thin pieces. Peel the onion and chop finely. Fry onions and mushrooms. Stuff the fish, rub it with oil, wrap it in foil and bake at 180 degrees for about thirty minutes.
Serve with sour cream sauce and fresh vegetables. Bon appetit!
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You can cook fish in different ways: boil, fry, stew. But bream will turn out much tastier if you cook it in the oven at home. When baked, its nutritional and beneficial properties will be preserved, and the meat will turn out soft and juicy. Let's discuss how to cook bream in the oven deliciously.
Fish is an integral product in the human diet. Some people like sea food, others prefer river food. Bream is considered one of the most delicious and healthy river fish. Its meat is tender and tasty, rich in protein, which is easily digestible, and also contains important vitamins and microelements.
How to cook bream caviar at home?
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How much does Bream Caviar cost (average price per 1 kg)?
Moscow and Moscow region.
230 rub.
Bream fish or Abramis brama is the only representative of the Bream genus known to science today, which belongs to the Cyprinid fish family. It is noteworthy that people have come up with their own original names for different age species of bream fish. For example, young specimens of bream are called nothing more than breams, and old fish are called chebaki or kilyaki.
It is worth noting that the maximum recorded body size of bream was 82 cm, weight reached 6 kg. Researchers have found that the maximum life cycle of bream is 23 years. Breams are a schooling fish species. For habitat, bream chooses deep-sea places with a lot of vegetation.
Professional fishermen note that bream is a rather smart and cautious fish species that is not so easy to catch. Bream fish feed on plankton, as well as algae, shells, tubifex and snails. Quite numerous schools of fish can be seen in the waters of large lakes. It is interesting that schools of bream act like a “vacuum cleaner” and simply perfectly clean the bottom of reservoirs, literally leaving roads behind them.
A kind of “harvesting” of bream can be noted with the naked eye on the surface of reservoirs by the floating bubbles of swamp gases that form during the passage of a school of fish. Fish such as bream live in the waters of the northern and central parts of Europe, and also in the basin of the Caspian, Azov, North, Baltic and Black Seas.
Bream are found in the waters of such large rivers as the Ob, Yenisei, and Irtysh. Bream is considered an important commercial fish, which is widely used in cooking. As a rule, bream meat and caviar are used for food. Fish is sold fresh, frozen, dried and dried. In addition, you can find canned bream on sale.
Bream caviar is usually salted and served as an independent snack. Typically, bream caviar is used to make sandwiches and also as a filling for tartlets. Bream caviar can not only be salted, but also used fresh.
You can make delicious and healthy nutritious pancakes from bream caviar fried in vegetable oil. In addition, you can use fried bream caviar as a filling for pancakes. The calorie content of bream caviar is quite low and amounts to 142 kcal, which are contained in 100 grams of the product.
This relatively low level of calorie content of bream caviar allows the product to be classified as dietary. It is worth noting that bream caviar, as well as the vast majority of varieties of fish caviar, will be a tasty, nutritious, and most importantly healthy treat for people of all ages.
You can prepare bream caviar at home in various ways and using many recipes. Not all housewives know what to do with bream caviar and how to cook it correctly. Thanks to this truly healthy product, you get very tasty and delicious dishes that will become a real decoration for your holiday table.
Pickling
Salting is one of the most common options for preparing this seafood. Properly salted bream caviar is a delicacy with a truly unique and distinctive taste. Salted caviar is a completely ready-made unusual appetizer, but it can also be an addition to another dish.
The main stage of product preparation will be the process of freeing each egg from a kind of protective film. This process can be called in one simple word - punching. If you will not be using too much caviar for drying, then you can use a very ordinary colander; as an alternative, a sieve or even a vegetable grater will do.
One of the simplest and most common recipes for pickling bream caviar is to place it in a bowl, add salt, mix and let it sit for a while. When the process is completed, the caviar can be served. As you can see, salting caviar is not that difficult. Please note that this method of harvesting caviar may not be completely safe, because various parasites may remain in the product, which can cause harm to the body. So be careful.
Frying is another way to prepare this product. It is not as popular as, for example, salting, but nevertheless, some housewives prefer this method. Everything is quite simple here. The first step is to make sure that the caviar chosen for cooking is fresh and mature.
This can be determined by its color, smell and shape of the eggs. Overripe caviar is not suitable for cooking. An unripe product will also not be able to reveal its true taste characteristics. After selecting and purchasing caviar, it is necessary to thoroughly wash it and remove unnecessary film. Well, then let’s turn on our imagination.
Drying
Drying is a rather labor-intensive and costly process. Due to the lack of experience, housewives' dried caviar may turn out too dry or, conversely, completely raw for the first time. But we know that this will not stop real gourmets. There is a certain drying technology, which, if desired, you can study and prepare real dried bream caviar at home.
Technology for drying bream caviar:
- Carefully cut the bream.
- Prepare coarse salt.
- Process the caviar under cold water and salt it, preferably in a ceramic or glass container.
- Leave the bream caviar to marinate for approximately 7 hours.
- Remove the caviar and place it on a metal grid. You need to get rid of excess moisture.
- To ensure that the salt is evenly distributed, you need to put the product in cold water again for 30 minutes.
- It is necessary to dry caviar outside, placing the product on a wire rack.
- The drying process lasts for 25-40 days.
- Around day 15-20, bream caviar is covered with a film of salt, so it needs to be placed in warm water (up to 40-50 degrees).
- At the end of this long and at the same time fascinating process, we put our amazing product back on the grill and bring it to full readiness.
Dried bream caviar is used in all kinds of works of culinary art of all peoples of the world. Dried bream caviar is a real treat for gourmets.
How to salt bream at home using the dry method? Everything is very simple here, stock up on coarse salt, a couple of fish and twine. Then it's all a matter of technique.
Salting process step by step.
- Leave the fresh fish to just lie there for 2 hours, but not in the sun, preferably in the room, if it’s not hot, or in the refrigerator.
- Wash the bream, thoroughly clearing it of all river mucus. If you wish, you can clean the insides, but it is worth noting that they make the fish fattier and tastier.
- Pour salt into the bottom of a deep bowl so that the layer is approximately 1 cm.
- Take each fish and coat it with salt, carefully adding it to the mouth and behind the gills.
- Place the bream on salt in a basin, leaving a small distance between the carcasses, and if the fish are very large, then pierce each belly with a thin knife in one or two places.
- Sprinkle the same layer of salt on top as on the bottom.
- Cover the basin with a paper towel or gauze, place in a well-ventilated and not sunny place for 12-14 hours.
- After the allotted time, turn the fish carcasses over, cover with a lid and place a jar of water on the lid. Leave for three days, do not forget to turn the carcasses over every 10 hours, otherwise they may simply rot.
- Remove the bream from the basin, shake off the salt, pierce the tails of each carcass with twine, without pressing the breams to each other, they should be at a distance of about 10 cm from each other.
- Hang the twine with the fish in a dry, cool and ventilated place, cover with gauze. The drying process for medium-sized fish will take 3-4 weeks. As soon as the bellies of the carcasses turn amber, the fish are ready.
How to salt bream at home using the wet method. This is a common method, especially among city dwellers who have nowhere to hang fish for several weeks. With this salting, the fish will be ready on the fourth day.
Wet salting process step by step.
- Wash the bream, remove the gills, but do not gut the fish.
- Pour enough salt into a bucket of water so that when you dip a raw chicken egg into it, it rises to the surface.
- String the fish in the eye area with twine, about 4-5 pieces per bunch.
- Using a syringe, apply a small amount of salt solution into the abdomen of each carcass.
- Place the food in a container with a salty solution and send it to a cold place, for example, a cellar (the temperature should be about 7-8 degrees Celsius, no more). In three to four days the bream will be ready; all that remains is to hang it on twine for several days on the balcony or in any other ventilated place so that the fish wilts and is ready to eat.
Soaking the fish
When planning to dry bream, every person should understand that when the fish is salted, it must be soaked in water, otherwise the bream will be too salty and you will not be able to eat it.
How fish is soaked.
- Salted bream must be cleaned of salt, leaving about 5% of what it was at the beginning.
- You need to fill a bucket with clean water and put the fish in it for 10-12 hours, and every 3 hours, change the water in the container with new one.
Drying bream
Baked bream in foil whole and with scales
The simplest recipe for cooking bream in the oven is to bake the whole bream in foil, including the scales. This method has many advantages:
- Just gut the fish; there is no need to remove the scales.
- The dish will turn out tender and juicy thanks to the thick skin that retains moisture inside.
- When you remove the scales from the finished fish, the bones will be clearly visible.
Ingredients:
- 1 bream;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- salt;
- cumin (to taste).
How to cook:
- Wash the bream, cut off the fins, remove the gills. Cut the onions and carrots into rings and place on a sheet of foil.
- Salt and sprinkle the fish with pepper, place on top of the onions and carrots. Add spices or cumin to taste.
- Place chopped onions and carrots on top again.
- Wrap tightly with foil without gaps to prevent juice from escaping.
- Place in the oven for 45 minutes at 180°C.
- Remove the skin from the finished bream. Cut the carcass, remove the bones.
- Garnish with herbs and serve along with a side dish.
The dish is more suitable for everyday meals, but can also be served to guests. With this method of cooking, the meat retains its juiciness and unique aroma.
Video recipe
Baked bream stuffed with porridge
Cooking stuffed bream in the oven will require more effort. The method is labor-intensive, but the result will please you.
Compound:
- Bream;
- Two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- Half a glass of buckwheat;
- A teaspoon of mushroom powder;
- A pair of eggs;
- Bulb;
- A little butter;
- Salt;
- Spices for fish;
- Breadcrumbs.
Cook buckwheat porridge. Season with butter, mushroom powder, chopped boiled eggs, fried onions. Let cool. Rub the carcass with salt and spices. Stuff the belly with buckwheat porridge, pin the sides together with toothpicks or fasten with thread. Cover a baking sheet with foil and place the prepared carcass on top.
This dish is served hot, served with fresh vegetables and herbs.
How to bake bream with potatoes without foil
If you want to feed your family or guests, save time and effort, then bake bream in the oven with potatoes. The recipe is simple, even novice cooks can handle it. The taste of the dish will not leave anyone indifferent.
Ingredients:
- bream – 1 piece;
- potatoes - 3 pieces;
- sour cream – 30 grams;
- flour – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt;
- lemon.
Preparation:
- Clean the fish and wash it well, cut it, add salt and roll in flour.
- Wash and peel the potatoes, cut into cubes.
- Grease a baking tray with sunflower oil, place the bream first, then the potato cubes on top.
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Place the baking sheet with the ingredients and leave to bake for 25 minutes.
- After 25 minutes, remove the fish, pour sour cream on top and return to the oven for 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle the finished dish with lemon juice.
The baked bream takes on a beautiful golden hue, and the potatoes are saturated with aroma and juice. The dish is perfect for a hearty family dinner.
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Bream beneficial properties
What are the benefits of eating bream? The individual is one of those fish beneficial properties are often underestimated, and to be more precise, I don’t know about them at all. The beneficial properties of such fish are as follows:
- The product contains many biologically active substances, due to which the meat is almost immediately absorbed by the body.
- Meat contains a lot of proteins, so it is recommended to include it in the menu of athletes and people who want to improve their health after injuries or surgical operations.
- Meat contains a lot of omega-3 and omega-6 acids, which are among the main factors in the prevention of atherosclerosis and many other diseases associated with the cardiovascular system. Such acids can reduce the level of bad cholesterol in the circulatory system, which improves overall health, reduces the formation of blood clots and normalizes blood sugar levels.
- Meat is also very rich in phosphorus, which helps restore bone tissue in the body.
- In addition, the product contains a large amount of B vitamins and vitamin PP.