Salmon is commonly understood as any fish from the salmon family (salmon, trout, chum salmon, pink salmon, etc.). Salmon and its relatives are not only very tasty, but also healthy food, which is valuable primarily omega-3 fatty acids, which protect our body from the development of various inflammatory processes, which are known to cause most diseases. Also, these fatty acids prevent the formation of blood clots, which are the main cause of heart attacks.
It is proved that 100 grams of salmon contains the daily intake of vitamin D and half the daily intake of such essential substances as vitamin B12, niacin, selenium, vitamin B6 and magnesium. Even canned salmon is useful, as it has an increased calcium content. In addition to these, salmon contains more than 80 other nutrients.
If we talk about this fish in the culinary aspect, then it is characterized by a slight decrease in size after frying and stewing, the ability to retain its nutritional properties and attractive appearance. For the preparation of most dishes use prepared fillets or salmon steaks, although very successfully you can use whole fish or its individual parts. As a rule, salmon are fried (using a frying pan or grill), or baked in the oven.
Salmon Dishes - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Baked salmon in the oven
Very useful, tasty and at the same time not at all a complicated dish, for the preparation of which the salmon fillet is baked in foil with eggs, onion and dill. Foil allows you to save all the nutrients in the fish, and lemon and dill give it a characteristic taste and aroma. You can garnish the dish with fresh vegetables.
Ingredients:
2 salmon fillets 400 gr. each;
1 tsp. lemon juice;
2 boiled eggs;
2 onions;
40 gr. butter;
1 small bunch of dill.
Method of preparation:
1. Cut 2 slices into thin slices.
2. Clean 2 boiled eggs and chop finely.
3. Finely chop the dill.
4. Putting one salmon fillet skin-down on a sheet of foil, sprinkle it with lemon juice, salt and sprinkle with eggs and ykpopom, then dab with prepared onion slices, pour over the top with melted butter. 5. Cover the whole with a second piece of fillet, laid leather up.
6. Tightly seal the foil, put all the dirt and bake in the oven for half an hour.
Recipe 2: Creamy Salmon
Salmon cooked in cream sauce is an excellent second course. Skipping the frying stage, you can get boiled fish stew. After roasting the fish gets a special flavor and it turns out more homogeneous and dense. Mustard and green onions added to the cream give the dish a slightly savory taste.
Ingredients
1.5 kg salmon fillet (or other fish of the salmon family);
half a lemon;
grows frying oil;
pepper to taste;
For the sauce:
0.5 liters of cream or sour cream;
1 tbsp. l mustard;
20 gr. butter;
bunch of green onions (about 100 gr.);
2 tbsp. l breadcrumbs;
to taste salt, pepper.
Method of preparation:
1. Cut the fish in portions, salt, but do not pepper. We put them in a deep plate in layers, sprinkling each with lemon juice, and leave for 15 minutes.
2. Pour the butter into the pan and, heating it over high heat, quickly fry the pieces of salmon (no more than 1 minute, this is important), we put the finished in the baking dish.
3. Finely cut green onions.
4. In another pan (you can wash the same one in which we fried fish), we melt a piece of butter over medium heat.
5. Putting a little chopped onion, put the rest in the pan and fry for a short time, stirring constantly, only so that it loses in volume.
6. Mix the cream or sour cream with mustard, salt, pepper, pour into the frying pan and heat the sauce with constant stirring until the first bubbles appear. An important detail: low-fat cream (up to 20%) or even more sour cream can curl up, no need to be scared. After intensive mixing, there will be no large flakes, and after baking, even small ones will not be noticeable at all.
7. Fill the fish in the form with the resulting sauce, then, sprinkling everything with ground breadcrumbs, bake in the oven for about half an hour.
8. Prepared fish before serving can be sprinkled with green onion left.
Recipe 3: Salmon Salad
Incredibly simple, but tasty dish in which the salmon is mixed with boiled eggs, grated hard cheese and canned peas. Ingredients:
1 can of canned salmon;
5 hard-boiled eggs;
100 gr. cheese;
0.3 cans of green canned peas;
5 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
to taste pepper and salt.
Method of preparation:
1. Prepare the components of the salad: remove the bones from the fish and knead the resulting fillet with a fork; grate cheese; chop eggs finely.
2. Mix chopped eggs, fish, grated cheese, green peas, salt, pepper.
3. Fill all with mayonnaise and lay out in a beautiful salad bowl, sprinkle with parsley.
Recipe 4: Salmon Soup
Very tasty, nourishing and easy to prepare soup. One detail: the salmon’s habitat is clean, so it has no extraneous odors. Accordingly, I would like to warn you against using various soup seasonings “for fish”, which are good for carp fish, which often have the smell of mud, and in the case of salmon, they will only deprive the soup of that unique, appetizing flavor characteristic of salmon fish.
Ingredients:
300 gr. salmon fillets;
1 carrot;
3 potatoes;
1 onion;
rast. butter,
2-3 bay leaves;
to taste salt and pepper, parsley
Method of preparation:
1. Cut the fillet into small pieces having a thickness of about 2 centimeters.
2. We clean and wash the vegetables, then we cut the potatoes into cubes, finely chop the onions, and grate the carrots.
3. Pour water into a saucepan and put carrots and bay leaves there. When the water boils, make the fire less and boil the carrots for about 10 minutes.
4. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown, add it to the pan, cook for a few more minutes and send the potatoes there. Again, bring our soup to a boil and put the fish there.
5. Making the fire maximum, bring the soup to a boil, turn it off and let it “walk” for about 10 minutes. It will be good if the soup is infused for another half an hour, then its taste will become even more saturated.
6. Spread the soup in plates, you can add to each a little finely chopped parsley.
Recipe 5: Salmon Steak
To spoil a salmon steak is a difficult task even for a novice chef, if you follow all the recommendations given in the recipe. Many people like to just bake the steak on the grill or fry in a pan. In our recipe, in which salmon steaks are stewed in a frying pan in grapefruit juice, the meat is especially tender, with a noble taste and aroma. Ingredients:
4 steaks of salmon;
1 tbsp. l olive oil;
3 onions;
250 ml of fresh grapefruit juice
several cloves of grapefruit.
Method of preparation:
1. Peel the onions and chop them finely.
2. Heat the olive oil in a large pan, having a non-stick coating, and fry the chopped onion until tender.
3. Put the steaks in the pan, pour with grapefruit juice, send the slices of grapefruit to the same place, cover with a lid and cook for not more than 5-7 minutes with a small fire.
4. Ready steaks are served with fresh bread, or with a side dish in the form of rice or vegetables.
Dishes from salmon - useful tips from experienced chefs
To prepare a good salmon dish it is very important to choose the right product. If you buy fresh fish that is cut into steaks or fillets, make sure that it has not been frozen before. You can find out by the pulp, which should be soft, dense and not watery. Remember - the fresher the fish, the tastier, more fragrant and simply more beautiful your dish will be.
For frying salmon, you should preheat the pan well, and fry very quickly, as indicated in the recipe. If you ignore this rule, fat will be drained from the fish, and it will become dry and may fall apart.
One of the main rules: fish, in which there is so much of its own taste and aroma, is in minimum need of seasonings. Before cooking, sprinkling salmon with lemon will be the best, which will perfectly emphasize all the taste of our fish. When baking salmon, you can lay it in thinly sliced lemon slices.