Tench fish is a nutritious, moderately oily aquatic living creature, rich in vitamins and minerals. It contains a small number of calories that our body quickly absorbs, so this fish can be used for a diet menu. Lin can be prepared in many ways - it can be cooked, fried, baked in the oven or steamed. And how to do it right, we suggest learning more.
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Fish tench: product features
Lin is a freshwater inhabitant, which is very popular among culinary experts, due to its gentle taste and unpretentiousness in cooking. In size, the fish is not large, but sometimes you can find quite large specimens.
The meat of tench has a sweetish taste, while it is juicy and low-calorie, since the fat content in it does not exceed 7%.
True, such a fish has its drawbacks. Firstly, tench is quite bony, and secondly, it has a faint smell of mud, which not everyone likes. You can get rid of such an unpleasant aroma if you hold the carcass for several hours in cool water or just rinse with saline.
How to clean fish
Tench is a rather slippery fish and its scales are thin and very small. Therefore, cleaning it is not so easy and conventional methods are not suitable here. But, if you decide to just fry such a fish, then it is not necessary to clean it. In the process of cooking, the scales turn into a crisp.
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True, you still have to get rid of the mucus. To do this, you need:
- Rinse the carcass under cold water to remove the smell of mud.
- Then sprinkle it with boiling water - so the mucus coagulates, and in appearance it will resemble egg white.
- After this, rinse the fish again under cold water.
To prepare other dishes tench still have to be cleaned from scales. How to clean, now we will tell, because everything is simple here.
- We also wash the fish.
- Wash off the mucus with hot boiling water.
- Using a sharp knife or a fine grater, we scrape off the scales. So that the fish does not slip in the hands, it can be sprinkled with salt.
- Now it remains to pull out all the insides. We make an incision from tail to head, (the main thing is not to touch the gall bladder, otherwise the meat will become bitter), take out all internal organs and wash the carcass under cold water.
- If the smell of mud is still present, then we treat the line with saline.
Now you can choose recipes for preparing a delicious dish.
Fish fillet tench
Jellied - a very tasty and beautiful dish. This is an analogue of the well-known aspic, but for it we will use fish instead of meat. As a rule, aspic is prepared from dense fish with a minimum number of bones. And despite the fact that tench is bony, it will become a good basis for preparing a jellied dish.
Ingredients:
- tench (1 - 1.5 kg);
- two onions;
- two carrots;
- two tablespoons of gelatin;
- lemon;
- 1 tsp vinegar
- cloves, allspice, bay leaf;
- salt, sugar;
- parsley greens.
Cooking method:
- Cut the cleaned fish from scales and bones into pieces. We put fins, heads and bones in a pan, fill with water and bring to a boil. Add onions and carrots whole, cloves, allspice, salt and bay leaf. Cook fish with vegetables for an hour.
- Filter the boiled broth through a sieve, put fish in it again and cook for another 20 minutes.
- In the finished broth (without fish) add sugar, vinegar and pre-soaked gelatin. We put on the stove and cook until the gelatin is completely dissolved. We filter the composition and cool to room temperature.
- In the dish chosen for serving, we nicely lay the pieces of fish, slices of lemon, cubes of carrots, parsley and halves of quail eggs. Fill everything with fish broth and put in a cool place until completely solidified.
Fry in a pan
Lin can be cooked in different ways, but the easiest way is to fry in a pan. True, here there are some interesting recipes that you can use.
- We heat the pan with vegetable oil. On high heat we fry the tench on one side and the other for 5 minutes. Then we reduce the fire and cook the fish until golden brown.
- Pieces of fish can be grated with salt and pepper, roll in flour and fry on both sides until crisp. Then add onion rings to the fish blanks, fry in a pan for another 5 minutes, and then pour a little water and stew the dish until cooked.
- Salt the prepared carcass, pepper and leave for 15 minutes. Melt the butter in a pan. We part the flour with water, add a spoonful of sour cream, pepper and salt. Pour the mixture into a pan, mix with melted butter and as soon as the sauce boils, lay out the fish and simmer for 20 - 30 minutes.
How to cook in the oven
Tender baked in the oven with a side dish will be a good dish for a family dinner or a festive feast. In this recipe we will use potatoes as a side dish. How to cook tench in the oven? Nothing is easier!
Ingredients:
- tench (3 - 4 pcs.);
- 5 to 6 potatoes;
- two onions;
- three cloves of garlic;
- vegetable oil;
- salt, pepper, herbs.
Preparing tench in the oven is very simple:
- Mix vegetable oil with chopped garlic, herbs and spices. Pour the fish with the prepared mixture and give it time to brew.
- In the form we spread the potatoes cut into thin slices, on top - the onion rings. Salt, pepper and spread the pickled fish on top of the vegetables. Pour all the remaining sauce.
- Bake the tench in the oven at 200 ° C for 40 minutes.
Tench stewed with mushrooms
Tench stewed with mushrooms will certainly delight you with its extraordinary taste. The combination of tender fish meat and the aroma of mushrooms will not leave anyone indifferent.Your guests will definitely appreciate this dish.
In cooking, it is better to use forest mushrooms, for example, mushrooms, but if this is not possible, then champignons are also suitable.
Ingredients:
- tench (1 kg);
- two glasses of boiled mushrooms;
- two onions;
- two glasses of white wine;
- a spoon of flour;
- two tablespoons of butter;
- lemon peel;
- allspice, salt.
Cooking method:
- In a deep container, fry mushrooms and onions in vegetable (butter) oil.
- We add the fish to the fried mushrooms, which must first be rubbed with salt and pepper.
- Pour all the wine and simmer for 30 minutes.
- In butter in a separate bowl, fry the flour, add the zest of lemon and a little juice. Pour in the liquid that remains after the fish is stewed.
- We put the prepared tench on the dish, put mushrooms nearby and pour everything with the cooked sauce.
Steamed fish in a slow cooker
Tench itself is a healthy fish. But if you steam it, be sure to hear the praise of any nutritionist.
You can treat yourself to such a diet dish for dinner without fear of heaviness in the stomach and gaining excess weight.
Ingredients:
- tench;
- bay leaf, cloves, cardamom;
- salt pepper;
- bunch of dill and parsley.
Cooking method:
- Pour water into the multicooker bowl and put all the spices and herbs in it.
- Rub the fish with salt, pepper, vegetable oil and spread on a wire rack for steaming. Together with the carcass, you can put onion rings and chopped potatoes.
- Cooking in the “Steam” mode for 25 minutes. When the water with spices boils, the tench will be saturated with the aromas of herbs.
With sour cream sauce
There are many ways to prepare a lake dweller. Lin can be fried, steamed or boiled soup from it ... But the most delicious is the tench baked in sour cream. The fish comes out very tasty, tender and juicy.
Ingredients:
- tench;
- vegetable oil;
- a glass of sour cream;
- two tablespoons of flour;
- clove of garlic;
- salt, spices for fish, bay leaf.
Cooking method:
- Cut the carcass into slices, salt and pepper.
- Mix the flour with seasonings for fish, roll the fish blanks in it and fry them in vegetable oil until golden brown.
- Add crushed garlic and pepper to sour cream, mix and fill the fish with the resulting sauce. Add bay leaf and, if desired, chopped greens. Simmer the dish over low heat for 20 minutes.
No matter how you cook the tench, it will always be tasty and juicy. This fish is especially well combined with vegetables and sour cream sauce. Try and be sure that the result will pleasantly surprise you.
