New year for many - one of the most important holidays. Choosing dishes for a solemn dinner, some give preference to recipes from fish. It can be caused by love for this product or the fact that Orthodox Christians hold a post at this time. Of course, not each fish will approach a holiday table.
What fish choose
Choosing fish for a New Year's dinner, it is worth defining on what number of people you prepare, what is the time you are ready to spend for preparation and what fat content you want to receive a dish.
The fish is fatter, the nasyshchenny and the taste is richer than her.
The cod, halibut, haddock, perch and hake treat low-fat grades of fishes. It is better to prepare such fish on a grill or on couple. In it also it usually is a lot of bones not the best choice for a New Year's table. Carry to srednezhirny fish a tuna, a mackerel, a swordfish. Such species of fish can be fried and baked. They demand some time for preparation.
The best choice for a solemn dinner – a fragrant, fatty fish, such as salmon, sturgeon, trout. There are many recipes of ceremonial dishes from such fishes, many don't demand a large number of time for preparation, others can be prepared in advance.
For several eaters it is better to buy fish steaks, on the big company – whole a fish trunk.
Recipes for a New Year's table
The good choice of a fish dish for a New Year's meal – the salmon baked in a foil. You can prepare "envelopes" in advance, then you shouldn't distract for a long time from a holiday, it will be rather simple to put a baking tray with a salmon for several minutes in in advance warmed oven. For two portions it is required to you: - 2 fillets of a salmon, weighing about 200 g everyone; - 2 teaspoons of olive oil; - 4 teaspoons of the crushed basil greens; - 4-5 cherry tomatoes; - salt, pepper; - food foil. Cut off two big pieces of a foil, the sufficient size to wrap up them around a fish piece several times. Put each piece in half and oil olive. Lay out in the center of fillet of a salmon skin down, salt each piece and pepper, strew with greens and place on them the tomatoes cut by circles. Create envelopes from a foil. Bake fish in the oven which is in advance warmed up to 220 wasps within 15 minutes. One more popular way to prepare a salmon for a holiday table is to pickle it and to use as snack. The salmon prepared in marinade from whisky will turn out tasty and ceremonial. It will be required to you: - fillet of a salmon weighing 500 g; - 1 cup of a refiner syrup; - ¾ glass of salt; - 1 bulb of fennel cut by thin rings; - ½ glasses of the cut fresh greens of fennel; - 1 tablespoon of ground black pepper; - ¼ cups of whisky; - a dried peel from 1 orange. Put a salmon on food wrap skin down. In a bowl mix sugar, salt, pepper, fennel, fennel, an orange dried peel. Pour out whisky on fish and rub it in flesh, lay out spicy mix and evenly distribute on fillet. Densely wrap up a salmon in a film, put in a bowl and remove in the fridge at least for 72 hours. Wash out a ready marinated salmon under flowing water, wipe dry and slice thin. Such fish can be stored in a container in the cool place up to 2 weeks.