Salmon in cream is more a festive dish than an ordinary one. However, it is much easier to please your close people in the middle of a week than it might seem.
Prepare salmon simply and quickly. The ingredients that make up the dish are available, with the exception of the salmon itself.
But from time to time, pampering yourself and your family with a wholesome and incredibly tasty dish is not only possible, but even necessary.
Salmon in cream - general principles of cooking
Without a doubt, salmon, like any other marine life, contains a lot of nutrients, but that's not all. In its composition a large amount of melanin, which favorably affects the cells of the body, providing a rejuvenating effect. Therefore, this fish must be included in the human diet.
For the preparation of salmon in cream, you can buy as a whole fish, and its filet part or steaks. Prices are about the same, but the advantages of split fish are indisputable. No need to fiddle, removing the skin, cutting off the fins and removing the bones.
Salmon in cream can be prepared without any additives as a basis for such side dishes as rice, potatoes, peas, vegetables. Also, when cooking, you can add additional ingredients, for example, pasta, mushrooms, seafood, vegetables, and get a completely independent dish. It all depends on your taste preferences.
In addition to salt and pepper, you can add spices such as garlic, hot and sweet peppers, marjoram, dill, cayenne pepper, and rosemary to salmon and cream. All of them are perfectly combined with fish and complement the dish with its flavor.
Decorate the finished fish with greens: parsley, rosemary, dill; olives, olives, red caviar.
Recipe 1. Salmon in cream
Perhaps the easiest recipe for salmon in cream. Minimum of time - maximum taste and benefits.
Ingredients:
• four salmon steaks (about 500-600 grams);
• 200 ml of cream;
• 130 ml of water;
• spices;
• half a lemon;
• salt pepper;
• 20 ml of olive oil;
• two or three sprigs of parsley and rosemary.
Preparation:
1. Wash the salmon, dry with a paper towel and rub with salt, sprinkle with pepper.
2. Cut the lemon into slices, rub the fish with them.
3. Pour the oil into the pan, fry the steaks on both sides for two minutes to a light blush.
4. In a bowl, mix the water with the cream. Add if desired, a pinch of curry, cayenne pepper, marjoram.
5. Slightly roasted salmon steaks are laid out in a heat-resistant form, filled with fragrant cream mixture.
6. We bake at 240-250 degrees for literally ten minutes.
7. Spread steaks on plates, pour with cream, decorate with fresh greens.
Recipe 2. Salmon in cream with tomatoes and cheese
The divine aroma and taste of salmon in cream under a cloud of tomatoes and cheese will not leave indifferent even the most fastidious gourmet.
Ingredients:
• kilo of salmon;
• two large fleshy tomatoes;
• half a can of pitted olives;
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• parsley leaves;
• 100 ml of cream;
• salt;
• spices (a mixture of peppers, marjoram and others to taste);
• some vegetable oil for roasting.
Preparation:
1. Fish cut: remove the skin, cut off the fins, remove bones.
2. Sprinkle the resulting fillet with salt and temporarily set aside.
3. In the cream pour spices, chopped olives and chopped parsley.
4. Put the fillet in the mold, pour the prepared cream.
5. On top of the salmon we put sliced tomatoes in thin circles, sprinkle all with grated cheese.
6. Bake for 20-30 minutes, the cheese crust should get a nice golden color.
3. Salmon in cream with mushrooms
There is no lemon in the recipe, but if you want to give the dish a delicate citrus sourness, you can pour in a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice or grate the zest in a ready-made cream sauce.
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of salmon fillet;
• one onion;
• 200 grams of champignons;
• 220 ml of cream;
• salt;
• spices;
• leaves of dill and parsley;
• 30 grams of flour;
• 20 ml cooking oil.
Preparation:
1. Rinse the mushrooms, spread on a towel and dry.
2. Cut the mushrooms into plates.
3. Rinse the dill, cut off the twigs and throw it out or leave it to cook another dish, chop the leaves.
4. Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes.
5. Heat the oil in a pan, fry the onion in it, add the champignons, fry for 8-10 minutes over medium heat until blush.
6. Pour the flour to the fried ingredients, stir.
7. Pour in warm cream to room temperature, add salt and spices. Tomim until the sauce thickens, this process does not take more than 7-8 minutes.
8. Remove the pan with the mushrooms and cream from the heat, put the chopped parsley in it, stir and remove for a while to the side.
9. Put the washed and dried fillet of salmon on a baking sheet, pour over the sauce. Cooking for 20-25 minutes.
4. Creamy salmon with vegetables
A hearty dish that does not require a side dish. Mushrooms in salmon with cream, if desired, you can not add.
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of salmon fillet;
• 400 grams of potatoes;
• one bow;
• one lemon;
• vegetable oil;
• spices, salt;
• Bulgarian pepper;
• 150-200 grams of champignons;
• 15 grams of flour;
• 160 ml of cream;
• greenery;
• 30-40 grams of butter.
Preparation:
1. Peel the potatoes and cut into small bars and boil in slightly salted water until half cooked. Water is drained.
2. Mushrooms and onion chop cubes. Fry for five to seven minutes in butter until golden. 3. Mix the potatoes with the roast, lay out evenly in a mold for baking.
4. Pepper is washed, cut into two parts, remove the middle part and cut into cubes. Spread over potatoes.
5. The next layer put the salmon, cut into medium pieces. Pre-rub the fish with spices and sprinkle with lemon juice.
6. In a small container prepare the fill of cream. Grind greens, mix with melted butter. Pour the flour, mix thoroughly so that no lumps remain. Quietly pour cream. Bring sauce to a boil, pour the prepared ingredients in the form.
7. Cooking salmon in cream in the oven for about half an hour.
5. Salmon in cream with pasta
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of pasta;
• 250-280 grams of salmon fillet;
• 220 ml of cream;
• a couple of dill branches;
• spices, salt;
• a clove of garlic;
• 20 ml of olive oil;
• 60 grams of parmesan.
Preparation:
1. Boil pasta, recline in a colander.
2. Cut the fillet into cubes two centimeters wide.
3. Heat the butter in the pan, spread the garlic, sliced slices. Fry it literally 15-20 seconds and immediately add pieces of fish. Stir fry for a couple of minutes.
4. Pour in the cream, put the grated parmesan and chopped dill. Add salt and spices to taste.
5. Tom all the ingredients in the pan for about five minutes, then add the pasta. Thoroughly mix, cover the pan with a lid, turn off the gas.
6. Insist the salmon in cream with pasta for five to ten minutes, serve to the table.
6. Salmon in cream with shrimps
To prepare this dish you will need a uniform with high sides. If one is not available, you can simply reduce the amount of ingredients.
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of salmon;
• 230 grams of peeled shrimp;
• large carrots; • onion;
• salt and spices;
• five cloves of garlic;
• Bell pepper;
• 400 ml of cream;
• 40 grams of flour;
• 25 grams of butter.
Preparation:
1. Put the carrot in a mold, cut into thin strips.
2. The next layer put chopped onion.
3. On top of the onion lay out salmon, cut into pieces.
4. Put the shrimp on the fish (the shrimp should not be frozen).
5. Heat the cream in a small saucepan, add butter, chopped peppers, salt and spices. Pour flour. While stirring, bring the sauce to a thicken on low heat.
6. Pour seafood sauce. We bake at 200 degrees twenty minutes.
7. Salmon in cream with spinach
The original dish, perfect for both regular and dietary table.
Ingredients:
• six salmon steaks;
• 130 ml of 15% cream;
• ground pepper;
• one large lemon;
• salt;
• 200 grams of fresh spinach.
Preparation:
1. Wash steaks, dry.
2. Rinse the spinach, recline in a colander, chop finely.
3. Wash the lemon, slightly peel off the skin and cut into slices.
4. Cover the baking tray with foil, lay out twelve circles of lemon in two rows.
5. We spread each steak on two lemon peppers, lightly salt the fish, we add pepper to taste.
6. Neatly lay out the chopped spinach on the salmon, slightly pressing down the greens.
7. Directly on the spinach pour two to three tablespoons of cream.
8. We bake twenty minutes.
8. Salmon in cream with red caviar
Ingredients:
• 180 grams of salmon fillet;
• a small bunch of dill;
• salt pepper;
• two pieces of 30-gram butter;
• two or three tablespoons of lemon juice;
• half onion;
• vegetable oil;
• 30 ml of white wine (dry);
• 80 ml of heavy cream;
• Bay leaf;
• 20-30 grams of red caviar.
Preparation: 1. Cut the fillet into portions, grease with vegetable oil, sprinkle with pepper, chopped dill and salt. Squirt lemon juice, set aside for half an hour to the side.
2. Chop the onion and fry in butter, adding bay leaf to the flavor.
3. We pour in wine, we torment until full evaporation of liquid.
4. Pour in the cream, add more butter, simmer for five minutes.
5. Cool the prepared cream sauce, add caviar, mix.
6. Place the steaks on a greasy baking sheet, bake for ten minutes.
7. Put the prepared salmon in plates, pour the sauce of cream and red caviar.
Salmon in cream - useful tips and tricks
• For cooking salmon in cream, be sure to choose a cream that is high in fat, so the dish will turn out much softer and tastier.
• Virtually every recipe involves pre-marinating fish in spices and lemon juice. Squeeze the juice from citrus is not difficult if the fruit is lightly rolled on the table, pressing his palm.
• Salmon is cooked quickly, so there is no need to increase cooking time.
• Used spices, such as pepper, are best ground in a mortar. Powder spices do not give such a rich flavor.
• Fish living in their natural habitat is much more useful than their counterparts who lived in artificial reservoirs.
