The smelts are inexpensive at the price and a small fish, small by the sizes. It is very tasty if it is correct to prepare it. In this recipe the large bones of fish are removed, and the remained small - at all won't be felt. The stewed smelts in milk will develop an original and delicate taste.
Ingredients:
- 2 kg of smelts;
- 500 ml of milk (fat content of 3.2%);
- 1 pieces of onions;
- 10 peas of any pepper;
- 1 leaf of a lavrushka;
- small salt.
Preparation:
- Before preparation fish it is necessary to clean, cut off the head, all fins and a tail, to remove an entrails, to clean off a belly nap on internal walls of a paunch. At the head to hook the ridge a tip of a knife and to separate accurately from a carcass. As a result practically fillet of smelts will turn out. Wash out a baking plate a stream of cold flowing water.
- Cut onions half rings or large into cubes.
- In a deep frying pan to pour a little milk so that it hid a bottom and to lay out the first layer of fillet of smelts.
- Further it is necessary to add some salt, to pepper and put a little a part of onions. There will be several Sloyev.
- Then still fish and onions, also we put a lavrushka and peas of pepper (it can be both black, and white, and red). Further again layer of smelts and onions. So will be until all smelts come to an end.
- Fill in with milk fish in a frying pan so that the last top layer was hidden.
- Put a frying pan with fish on big fire, wait when contents begin to boil, then to close densely a cover and to extinguish until ready (on small fire) about an hour. During this time the smelts will prepare completely, and all small stones which remained in it will be softened to such state when are absolutely soft and imperceptible when chewing.
In the recipe oil isn't used at all, it also isn't necessary, in a frying pan there is enough liquid that fish didn't burn. It is possible to serve the dish garnished or at all without it. In the course of suppression, milk slightly will thicken, it can be used as a fish sauce. The smelts which became impregnated in milk will have slightly sweetish taste.