How to cook mackerel
You will need - mackerel, water, salt, lemon, herbs and spices to taste
1. Defrost the mackerel, if frozen.
2. Gut and wash the fish, cut off the tail and head, cut the fish into 4-5 portions.
3. Mix a liter of water with a tablespoon of salt, add a couple of bay leaves and fresh dill, put the pan on fire.
4. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice from both halves into a saucepan, add the lemon peel to the pan.
5. When the water boils, put the pieces of fish in a saucepan, cook for 7 minutes.
How to cook delicious mackerel
Mackerel can be prepared by boiling it in a baking bag - it tastes like a baked mackerel, and the texture remains very delicate.Cooking products
Mackerel - 1 fish weighing half a kilo
Carrots - 1 piece
Gelatin - 1 tablespoon
Pork lard - 6 slices
Chicken eggs - 2 pieces
Quail eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
How to cook mackerel in a bag
Rinse the mackerel, cut off the head and tail, cut along the belly, gut, remove the spine with bones and wash again - outside and inside. Peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Rub the fish with salt and pepper, sprinkle with gelatin, put chopped bacon instead of the spine, put grated carrots inside.
Boil chicken eggs, cut each into 4 pieces. Place inside the mackerel.
Fasten the mackerel with toothpicks or tie it with a thread, put in a baking bag, which is tightly tied at the end.
Boil 1 liter of water, put a bag of mackerel and cook the fish for 12 minutes.
Then cool the fish under pressure (for example, under a saucepan with water), cool, put in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Serve boiled mackerel in a bag, cut across into portions.
Fusofacts
It is better to buy whole mackerel for cooking - it is easy to peel it, even frozen, but from the whole fish you will get more appetizing-looking dishes.The calorie content of boiled mackerel is 210 kcal / 100 grams.
The price of frozen mackerel is from 250 rubles / kilogram (price for June 2020 on average in Moscow).
How to smoke mackerel
ProductsMackerel - 1 pc.
Onion peel - from 2 bulbs.
Salt - 3 tablespoons.
Black leaf tea - 2 tablespoons.
Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
Smoked mackerel recipe Thaw the mackerel, gut it and rinse thoroughly. Rinse the onion husks under cold water. Add onion skins to a saucepan with 1 liter of water and cook for 10 minutes. Add tea, salt, sugar, stir and strain.
Pour the mackerel brine into a bowl, put the fish, cool and put under a press in the refrigerator for 3 days. Then dry the fish, grease with vegetable oil and then store in the refrigerator. When serving, cut into portions.