Mackerel is boiled for 7-10 minutes. Cook the whole mackerel for 25 minutes.
Cook the mackerel in a slow cooker for 25 minutes on the “Steam cooking” mode.
How to cook mackerel
You will need – mackerel, water, salt, lemon, herbs and spices to taste
1. Defrost mackerel, if frozen.
2. Gut and wash the fish, cut off the tail and head, cut the fish into 4-5 portions.
3. Mix a liter of water with a tablespoon of salt, add a couple of bay leaves and fresh dill, put the pan on the fire.
4. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice from both halves into a saucepan, add the lemon peel to the saucepan.
5. When the water boils, put the pieces of fish in a saucepan, cook for 7 minutes.
How to cook delicious mackerel
Mackerel can be prepared by boiling it in a baking bag – it tastes like a baked mackerel, and the consistency remains very delicate.
Cooking products
Mackerel – 1 fish weighing half a kilo
Carrots – 1 piece
Gelatin – 1 tablespoon
Pork lard – 6 slices
Chicken eggs – 2 pieces
Quail eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
How to cook mackerel in a bag
Rinse the mackerel, cut off the head and tail, cut along the belly, gut, remove the spine with bones and wash again – outside and inside. Peel and grate the carrots. Rub the fish with salt and pepper, sprinkle with gelatin, put chopped bacon instead of the spine, put grated carrots inside.
Boil chicken eggs, cut each into 4 pieces. Place inside the mackerel.
Fasten the mackerel with toothpicks or tie it with a thread, put in a baking bag, which is tightly tied at the end.
Boil 1 liter of water, put a bag of mackerel and cook the fish for 12 minutes.
Then cool the fish under pressure (for example, under a saucepan with water), cool, put in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Serve boiled mackerel in a bag, cut across into portions.
Delicious facts
It is better to buy whole mackerel for cooking – it is easy to peel it, even frozen, but the whole fish will turn out to be more appetizing-looking dishes.
The calorie content of boiled mackerel is 210 kcal / 100 grams.
The price of frozen mackerel is from 250 rubles / kilogram (price for June 2020 on average in Moscow).
How to smoke mackerel
Products
Mackerel – 1 pcs.
Onion peel – from 2 onions.
Salt – 3 tablespoons.
Black leaf tea – 2 tablespoons.
Sugar – 2 tablespoons.
Smoked mackerel recipe Thaw the mackerel, gut and rinse thoroughly. Rinse the onion husks under cold water. Add onion peels to a saucepan with 1 liter of water and cook for 10 minutes. Add tea, salt, sugar, stir and strain.
Pour the mackerel brine into a bowl, put the fish, cool and put under a press in the refrigerator for 3 days. Then dry the fish, grease with vegetable oil and then store in the refrigerator. When serving, cut into portions.