Jewish stuffed fish

Step 1. How to make gefilte fish - stuffed fish in Jewish with onions in a pan? Prepare the ingredients. Traditionally, oily fish with strong skin and a small number of intermuscular bones (carp, carp, catfish) are used. Wash the fish well, remove the gills and cut into steaks 2-3 cm thick, remove the insides (the abdomen should remain whole). Sprinkle the fish and leave it for 15-20 minutes. If you have frozen fish, then pre-freeze it. Read on to find out how to do this at the end of the recipe.

Step 2. How do you prepare vegetables? Peel and wash the onions, carrots and beets. Leave some of the pure onion husks. She'll be useful. Cut the beets and carrots in large pieces. Cut the two bulbs into four parts and cut the remaining in half.

Step 3. How to prepare fish for cooking mincemeat? From each piece of fish, remove the meat part, leaving the skin intact and without pulp. Set the skins on a separate plate. Separate the flesh from the bones. You need bones too, put them in a separate plate.

Step 4. How to make mince for gefilte fish? Soak the bread in water. Instead of bread, you can add 2-3 tbsp to minced meat. L. Manky. Pass through the meat grinder fish flesh, bread (squeezed from water and without crusts) and onions sliced into quarters. Sprinkle and peach. Add the eggs and stir well. If desired, the onions can be pre-fried to rosy in a pan in a small amount of vegetable oil.

Step 5. How to make a vegetable pillow for cooking gefilte fish? At the bottom of a large, thick-bottomed pan, lay out onion husks, beets and carrots sliced in large slices, fish bones and halves of the remaining bulb. Spill the sugar and add the juice of half a lemon. With the choice of a pot will help article on the link at the end of the recipe.

Step 6. How to get fish peels from the fish? Fill the prepared fish skins with minced meat, but not too tightly, by about 2/3 of the volume, as during heat treatment the mince will increase in volume. Hands or a spoon periodically soak with cold water - so the mince will not stick. Start the head through an incision from below or on the gill side. The surface of the ground meat can be smoothed with a wet knife or hand to make it look neat. Slightly press the mince inside the skin to the edges so that it does not fall out when cooking.

Step 7. How to put fish in a pot for cooking? Carefully move all stuffed pieces into a pan over the vegetable "pillow". Try to put them tightly together, in one layer so that they do not deform when boiling. Pour the contents of the pan with cold water so that it barely covers the fish. Add 1-2 teaspoons of salt. You don’t need to pour too much water.

Step 8. How to cook gefilte fish properly? Place the pan on a strong fire and bring to a boil without covering the lid. As soon as the first bubbles and foam appear, reduce the fire to a minimum. Foam carefully remove noise so that the broth turns out to be transparent. Cook under a loosely covered lid with a weak boil from 1. 5 to 3 hours. The longer the fish, the softer the bones and the softer the fish. In the process, you can gently turn over and add water if the sauce boils heavily.

Step 9. How to prepare stuffed fish in a Jewish way for a beautiful serve? Very carefully, so as not to damage the fish, put the gefilte fish on a dish with noise. Let the broth cool a little, strain it through a sieve or gauze, removing all vegetables, bones and husks. Pour the fish with strained broth and completely cool at room temperature. Only after that, clean the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight to completely solidify the broth in the jelly. Bon appetit!