The mullet is found in the warm southern seas, in Russia - in Azov, Black and Caspian. Mullet of the Caspian Sea less fat, but large. Meat at a mullet white, quite fat, without pinbones. All types of this fish perfectly are suitable for frying, boiling and roasting. Successfully fennel supplements a mullet. The smoked and dried mullet is very tasty. But the true taste of this fish can be felt, having steamed her.
It is required to you
- Mullet - 1 kg.
- 3 average bulbs
- 3 potatoes
- 3 average carrots
- leek - 1 piece
- olive oil
- lemon
- mustard
- 200 гр. cheese
- salt
- pepper or
- mullet - 1 kg.
- onions - 2 pieces.
- 4 garlic gloves
- 1 glass of wine
- fennel greens
- parsley
- salt
- pepper
- ground crackers.
Instruction
1. Clean a mullet, draw and carefully wash out, remove the head. Make a deep cut along a spine bone. Then divide fish into two fillets, doing small undercuts along edges. Salt fillet, pepper and you will sprinkle juice of a half of a lemon.
2. Peel carrots, onions and potato. Grate two carrots, and a third cut bars. Cut the remained half of a lemon and leek circles. Cut potatoes on quarters. Grate cheese on a small grater. Mix together olive oil, pepper and salt. Put the cut carrots, potatoes and leek in a cup with oil, mix and lay out on a bottom plate of the double boiler.
3. In a top plate of the double boiler place onions rings, on them from above - a piece of fillet of a mullet. Grease it with mustard, strew with a half of grated carrots and cheese.
4. Then lay the second fillet, also strew with cheese and carrots. From above put lemon circles. Cover the double boiler, prepare twenty minutes.
5. If there is no double boiler, bake this remarkable fish in an oven. Heat oil in a frying pan. Cut onions thin circles, put it in the warmed frying pan and brown about ten minutes. Rub the prepared drawn large carcass of a mullet on both sides with pepper and salt, put inside garlic, greens of fennel and parsley. After that shift the fried onions in a deep baking tray. From above put fish, water her with wine and strew with bread crumbs.
6. Close a baking tray and bake minutes 10-15, then uncover and leave for 10-15 minutes until fish easily separates from bones. Give on a table, having decorated with fennel branches.
7. If it wasn't succeeded to find a large fish, prepare several small.