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Put the sole into boiling water and cook for 10 minutes.
How to cook sole
Products
Sole (fillet) – 600 grams
Mustard – 3 teaspoons
Lemon – half
Parsley – a bunch
Horseradish – 3 cm long stem
Butter – 3 tablespoons
Salt – half a teaspoon
How to cook sole with horseradish and lemon sauce
1. Wash the sole fillet in cool water.
2. Pour a couple of liters of fresh water into a saucepan, wait until it boils, put the sole and cook it for 10 minutes, remove it from the pan.
3. Wash and chop the parsley.
4. Cut off the lemon, grate the zest, squeeze the juice out of the lemon pulp.
5. Peel horseradish, chop finely.
6. Mix in a cup softened butter, chopped parsley, horseradish, zest, lemon juice, mix.
7. Put sole into a baking dish, put the sauce on top, place in a microwave oven for 5 minutes on the “Preheat” mode or for 10 minutes in an oven heated to 190 degrees.
Delicious facts
– The fish got its name from its flattened shape. Another name for the sea language is salt. In Latin, this means outsole. The fish got this name because of the similarity in shape to the shoe sole.
How to cut a sole into fillets
1. Cut off the upper fin with a knife.
2. At the tail on the dark side of the fish, cut the skin, hook the edges and remove the skin from the whole fish, pulling it from the tail to the head.
3. Cut off the head, in place of the cut, grab the edge of the skin on the light side of the fish and remove the skin from the head to the tail.
4. Cut off the fins with kitchen scissors.
5. Make an incision in the abdomen, remove the insides. With the help of a sharp knife, helping with your hands, trim the fillets from the bones.
6. If you use the head and fins to cook fish broth, cut out the gills and eyes.
– Sole is not recommended to season hot spices, since the taste of the sole is too easy to kill. Dill, parsley, thyme, rosemary, cilantro, sage, oregano, basil, white and pink peppers, lemon, orange peel or juice, nutmeg, saffron, fennel, celery, capers go well with fish.
– In Russian stores under the name Sea tongue, they often sell other fish – pangasius… Outwardly, it looks like a sole, but it is fatter than it and is fried several times during cooking.