Clean the vomers, wash and put in boiling water, add salt and spices, cover with a lid. Start cooking time from the moment of boiling – 20 minutes. In the first minutes, monitor the foam, remove it in a timely manner.
How to cook vomera
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Vomer – kilogram
Vinegar 3% – 10 milliliters
Black pepper – a few peas
Parsley – a bunch
Salt – half a teaspoon
Bay leaf – 3 pieces
How to cook vomera
1. Clean the vomers from scales and giblets, cut out the gills, rinse in cool running water.
2. Wash the parsley, separate the stems from the leaves, chop the stems into strips 3 centimeters long.
3. Pour 2,5 liters of water into a saucepan, add salt, place on the burner over high heat, let it boil.
4. Put the whole fish in a saucepan with boiling water, wait for it to boil.
5. Remove the foam, put peppercorns, bay leaves, vinegar, parsley stalks.
6. Cook fish over low heat for 20 minutes.
7. Remove the pot from the burner, remove the vomer from the broth, remove the fins, head, skin, bones.
Dalmatian soup from vomer
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Vomer – kilogram
Carrots – 200 grams
Potatoes – 500 grams
Young onions – 300 grams
Olive oil – 50 milliliters
Dry Serbian spices – to taste
Lemon – half
Flour – a third of a glass
Salt – a teaspoon
Pepper – a few peas
How to make Dalmatian soup from vomer
1. Wash the young onions, chop the white part, set aside the green onion.
2. Pour the oil into a deep saucepan, place over medium heat, fry the chopped onion for 5 minutes.
3. Put flour in a saucepan, mix, fry for a few minutes.
4. Pour 1,5 liters of water into a saucepan, wait until it boils.
5. Wash and peel potatoes and carrots.
6. Cut the potatoes into squares 2 centimeters thick, carrots into strips 3 centimeters long and one centimeter thick.
7. Put potatoes and carrots in broth, keep on medium heat for 15 minutes.
8. Rinse the fish in cool water, remove the giblets and cut out the gills.
9. Put vomers in broth, keep on medium heat for 10 minutes.
10. Remove the vomers from the saucepan, remove the fins, head, bones, skin, cut the fillets with a fork.
11. Squeeze the juice out of half of the lemon.
12. Chop the green onion feathers.
13. Put vomer meat, salt, Serbian spices, pepper, lemon juice, chopped onion into the broth, cook for 2 minutes, remove from the burner.
Delicious facts
– Vomer – it sea fish, common in the east of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic shelf. It lives in shallow waters with a muddy or muddy-sandy bottom at a depth of 50-80 meters.
– Often vomera called selenium by the name of the genus of fish.
– Catch Atlantic vomers for industrial purposes is only a few tens of tons per year. More often this fish becomes an object of sport fishing. Peruvian selenium is of commercial interest. It is caught off the coast of Ecuador. This fish is popular in the cuisine of Eastern Europe and Russia. It is Perunian selenium that can most often be seen on our counters.
– Middle vomer weight – from 100-150 to 500 grams, size – 33-40 centimeters.
– Main season vomer consumption in Russia – summer. The Slavs buy this fish most often for smoking.
– Cost frozen vomer – from 200 rubles / kilogram (on average in Moscow as of July 2019).
– The vomer has another name – the moonfish. He got it thanks to the body in the form of a ball, on which there are almost no fins.