Oven baked salmon: recipe. Video
The salmon queen of fish does not require a particularly delicate attitude towards itself, moreover, it is about her that they say that it is difficult to spoil it when cooking. But there are recipes that make it especially good, and they relate to baking in the oven.
How to cook salmon in foil
In order to cook fish according to this recipe, take: – 6 salmon steaks; – 2 onions; – 2 carrots; – 150 g champignons; – 1 lemon; – salt, black pepper; – marjoram; – 30 ml of vegetable oil.
Before cooking salmon, peel, rinse and cut into steaks about 2 cm thick; if they are thinner, the fish may taste a little dry. Dry the peeled and washed salmon with a paper towel, removing the remaining moisture, salt, sprinkle with pepper and dried marjoram, set aside for an hour to soak in the aromas of spices. During this time, prepare the filling by frying the previously washed and chopped onions, carrots and mushrooms in vegetable oil. It will be a good addition to fish. Turn off the heat at the moment when the vegetables acquire a golden color, without bringing them to readiness, otherwise they will turn into vegetable caviar during baking with fish. Make envelopes out of foil, grease the bottom of which with vegetable oil, put in each a piece of salmon, on top of which make a pile of vegetables, sprinkle the fish with lemon juice. Seal the foil envelopes airtight and place them in an oven heated to 180 degrees Celsius. A quarter of an hour is enough for the fish to be ready, do not keep it in the oven for longer, otherwise you can dry it out.
According to this recipe, you can also cook whole small fish carcasses, stuffing them with vegetable filling. But in this case, increase the cooking time in proportion to the size of the fish.
How to bake salmon in a mold
To cook fish, take:
– 0,5 kg of salmon steaks; – 15 ml of lemon juice; – salt; – a bunch of dill; – 30 g of vegetable oil.
Serve the fish with the sauce, for which prepare: – 70 g of fat sour cream; – 70 g of mayonnaise; – 1 pickled cucumber; – 1 boiled egg; – dill and onion; – salt, black pepper.
Prepare the salmon by peeling, rinsing and cutting into steaks, brush them with a mixture of lemon juice and vegetable oil. Place the salmon in a mold, place the dill branches on top of the steaks. Bake the fish at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes, covering the dish with a sheet of foil. While the fish is baking, prepare the sauce for it by mixing mayonnaise with mustard and sour cream and adding an egg and cucumber, grated on a fine grater, to them. Chop the greens and add to the sauce at the end of cooking, along with salt and pepper. Remove the finished fish from the mold, arrange in portions and add to each plate of sauce.