The sterlet is fish from family sturgeon. She is considered royal fish as it was very much loved by monarchs. Among these monarchs there were Ivan il Terribile and Peter I who daily wished to see it on the table.
Though fish is called red, actually her meat of white color, it has practically no bones and tastes like veal. Both meat of this fish and caviar contain fatty acids an omega-3. These acids are extremely useful to our organism – they restore nervous cages, normalize activity of a brain and eye blood circulation. It is possible to prepare a sterlet differently: from it great fish soup will turn out, it can be cooked, extinguished, fried, steamed, to smoke, bake and make aspic. Many recipes are advised to add to dishes from a sterlet wine or even champagne. Very tasty it will turn out if to add brut to fish soup. And in general it is easily possible to experiment with this fish therefore that the recipe of the sterlet baked in salt.
It will be required to you:
one sterlet – 2 kg coarse sea salt - 3.5 kgmelky sea salt of-1 kg mustard seeds – 100golivkovoye oil – 1 tablespoon solperets ground white 1. In a bowl to mix coarse and small sea salt, to add seeds of mustard and a glass of water.2. Clean a sterlet – to remove an entrails, gills and a back fin. To remove a viziga, it is necessary to make a cut about a tail, to hook a needle or a fork on a part of a viziga and to extend it. Then to wash out fish and to dry up her a paper towel. Season a sterlet I will merge also pepper from within. 3. On a baking tray to lay out a layer of mix of salt and mustard. The layer has to be not thick. On it to put fish a stomach down. 4. Oil olive sides and a back of a sterlet and then completely to cover with the remained mix from salt fish. Then slightly to press hands.5. In an oven already there has to be temperature of 200 degrees, and bake a sterlet of 20-30 minutes.6 there. When fish is ready, it is necessary to take out her from an oven, to purify salt (the hammer can be necessary) and to remove skin.7. It is necessary to give a sterlet at once, having decorated it with lettuce leaves, cherry tomatoes and spinach. Enjoy your meal!