Hake is a healthy fish, lean, without annoying small bones. Many chefs call it a "legacy of the Soviet era." After all, then hake and pollock were the most accessible from sea fish for the average man in the street. However, fish is loved in many countries, for example, in Japan. Modern culinary specialists cook hake not because it is available and quite cheap, but because it is very tasty, especially if you cook hake in the oven! In this case, the useful properties of this product are not lost. And this fish contains vitamins, amino acids, and microelements, which are so necessary for the human body. Well, let's try to cook?
Hake baked in the oven
We can say that this cooking method is second in popularity only to fish fried in batter. Hake fillet is perfectly baked with vegetables. They can then be used as a side dish. This dish is also tasty when cooked with sour cream. Hake is often baked in the oven in foil. In addition to excellent taste, recipes for dishes from this fish are quite simple to execute and save the family budget.
Basic Recipe
Hake baked in the oven is juicy and tender. Such a dish is not contraindicated even for people with diseases of the intestines and stomach, as it is dietary, especially if you cook fish with vegetables.
So, to bake a hake, we need the following ingredients: fish fillet - 1 kilogram, 200 grams of hard cheese, two carrots, two onions, five potatoes, seasonings, mayonnaise. All products must be taken only the best quality. This is especially true for the choice of fish! It should not be re-frozen, as this results in the loss of many useful and palatable qualities.
Cooking
The fish must be thawed, washed in running water. The fillet assumes the absence of bones and skin, but it does not hurt to review the product before cooking for their presence. If fins remain, they should be removed. Cut the fillet into small pieces. You can lightly marinate the fish: to do this, sprinkle it with seasonings, add a little vegetable oil and lemon juice, mix thoroughly and set aside.
We take care of vegetables. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Peel the carrots and grate coarsely. Wash the potatoes well (the skin can not even be peeled), cut into not too thick circles. We lay out the ingredients in layers in a special dish with high sides: first fish, then onions, carrots, potatoes. Pour with mayonnaise (make a lattice). Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about an hour. A few minutes before you take the dish out of the oven, it should be sprinkled with grated cheese to form a golden crust. This is how you can cook hake in the oven.
Variations on a theme
Often, tomatoes are also added to the dish in question. They give the dish a characteristic sourness. You need to add them to the layer after the carrots and before the potatoes. Choose firm tomatoes so that they do not give too much juice (otherwise you will get fish soup).
By the way, any low-fat sea fish is suitable for preparing this kind of dish.
On the "cushion"
Hake in the oven, cooked on a “cushion” of vegetables, is preferred by some cooks who claim that this way all the vitamins are preserved and the taste improves. Let's try to do the same.
We need the following ingredients: three potatoes, two carrots, onion, hake fillet (500 grams), cheese or sour cream, seasonings, vegetable oil.
In a mold greased with oil, we form a kind of “pillow” of vegetables. All vegetables for this clean, wash, cut into small pieces. Onion cut into half rings or rings. On the resulting “pillow” lay out the pieces of the prepared fillet (it needs to be thawed, washed, lightly marinated). From above, we coat the whole dish with liquid sour cream with seasonings or mayonnaise - as you like. We send the whole structure to the oven, heated to 180 degrees. We bake for about an hour. Before the end, you can sprinkle the fish with hard grated cheese.
Hake in the oven in foil
Amazingly this fish turns out, bake it in foil. The method of preparing this dish is very simple. We will need: hake fillet (500 grams), a couple of onions, a couple of carrots, seasonings, a couple of spoons of medium-fat swept.
Defrost hake fillet, sprinkle with seasonings for fish. Peel the carrots and onions and chop coarsely. In the prepared pieces of foil we put the fillet, carrots and onions. You can add some sour cream on top. You should get 6-8 small foil molds with fish and vegetables. We spread them with holes up on a baking sheet and send them to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 45 minutes. Then we take it out, unfold the foil and put it in portions on plates. You can use mashed potatoes as a side dish for this dish.
in salt
This old way of baking does not require much skill. We take a hake fillet (you can also take a carcass, but without a head and cleaned of everything superfluous), rinse and cut into pieces. We wrap each piece in foil, on which there is already a lot of salt. You don’t need to feel sorry for her, since the fish will “take” the required amount and will not oversalt. Put the wrapped fillet on a baking sheet so that the juices do not flow out. Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Unwrap, remove salt and serve with garnish. A very original dish is obtained in this way from hake fish.
Recipes in the oven for cooking this delicious fish delight with their variety and ease of execution. In addition, many useful qualities of a hake are preserved.
