Fish is often supplemented with lemon and this is not just. Aromatic citrus gives a pleasant taste, muffles the fishy smell and makes the dish unusually fragrant. Indulge in a juicy fish with lemon?
Fish with lemon - general principles of preparation
You can cook fish with lemons in a pan or in the oven. Baked fish dishes are especially popular, since with their excellent taste they often have a small calorie content. This allows them to be used in dietary and oral nutrition.
Any fish requires preliminary mechanical processing: peeling, gutting, washing. Whole carcasses are prepared or cut. Many dishes use fillets.
The lemon is washed, dried. Use juice, zest or chopped slices of citrus. It all depends on the recipe. It is advisable to remove the seeds, as they can give the dish an unpleasant aftertaste and even bitterness.
Fish with lemon and tomato in a pan
The recipe for simple fish with lemon in a pan, for which you will need absolutely any filet. The dish is cooked with tomato paste.
Ingredients
• 0.6 kg fillet;
• 0.1 kg of onions;
• 1 bunch of greenery;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 spoon of pasta;
• oil, a little salt.
Cooking
1. Wash the citrus and cut it in half. Squeeze the juice from one part. Cut the second rug of lemon into thin slices.
2. Fillet cut into small pieces. Sprinkle with squeezed juice, remove for half an hour in the refrigerator.
3. Cut the onion into rings, but it can also be smaller, throw in a frying pan with heated oil. Fry until transparent.
4. Next, add the lemon slices, fry for a minute and throw the tomato paste.
5. Put the marinated fillet in a pan, cover and simmer for seven minutes.
6. Sprinkle lightly with salt, mix and simmer until cooked for about four or five minutes.
7. Turn off the dish, sprinkle with plenty of fresh herbs. Serve with fresh vegetables, side dishes of rice, potatoes.
Fish in the oven with lemon and olives (dorada)
To prepare such fish in the oven with lemon, you will need canned olives. The approximate quantity is indicated. If desired, you can take a little more or less. The amount of lemon can also be adjusted to suit your taste.
Ingredients
• 2 doradas;
• 15 olives;
• 1 lemon;
• 4 sprigs of parsley;
• 3 tablespoons olive oil;
• salt, pepper, sweet paprika.
Cooking
1. We clean the dorada, take out the insides and rinse well. No need to slice carcasses.
2. Rub the fish inside and out with a mixture of salt, pepper and sweet paprika. Proportions at its discretion. It is advisable to give the fish a little time to marinate.
3. Cut the lemon into slices, olives in half. If they are with stones, then you can use the whole.
4. Take a baking dish and grease with oil.
5. We spread the fish, put lemon slices, parsley branches inside and put a few olives in it.
6. Pour the fish with oil, place the remaining olives nearby.
7. Put in the oven and bake for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Estimated time, we look at the readiness of the fish.
Fish in foil with lemon and mustard
Another universal recipe for which you can use any fish. You will also need ordinary foil, eliminating the need to monitor the process and preserving all the juices in the product.
Ingredients
• 0.8 kg of fish;
• 1 onion head;
• 1 lemon;
• 1.5 tsp mustard;
• salt;
• 1 tsp oils.
Cooking
1. Fish should be washed, dried. You can leave the whole fat or cut into pieces.
2. Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon. The rest of the citrus is cut into thin rings, it will go up.
3. Mix mustard, lemon juice and a pinch of salt, grind. Add vegetable oil. You can also pour hot pepper if the mustard is weak.
4. We rub the prepared fish with the aromatic mixture.
5. Onion head cut into rings. You can also take carrots and cut them too.
6. We take a piece of foil, which is at least four times the size of the fish. We spread in front of ourselves and grease the central part with a drop of oil.
7. Spread onion and carrots on the foil, if it is used.
8. Upstairs is a fish, whole or pieces.
9. Now we lay out the lemon slices, raise the free edges of the foil and tightly twist together.
10. It remains to send the workpiece to the oven, withstand half an hour at 190 degrees and you're done!
Baked fish with lemon and garlic
Another variant of a very fragrant fish baked with lemon in the oven. In addition to citrus and garlic, you will need any greens, we select for your taste. The recipe is suitable for both sea and river fish.
Ingredients
• 0.7 kg of fish;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 large bunch of greenery;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• salt, pepper;
• 1.5 tablespoons of oil, it is better to take olive.
Cooking
1. Remove the zest from the lemon, squeeze the juice.
2. Mix lemon juice with chopped garlic cloves, add prescription oil, zest, salt and pepper.
3. We rub the prepared fish with this mass. Let stand for half an hour.
4. Lubricate a suitable mold and put greens on butter. You can use whole branches or chop.
5. We put fish on the greens. All the liquid that has accumulated at the bottom of the container, you just need to pour on top of the fish.
6. It remains to put the mold in a 200 degree preheated oven. The baking time depends on the type of fish and the size of the pieces. On average, it fluctuates around 15-25 minutes.
Fish with lemon and sour cream (mackerel)
For such fish with lemon, mackerel is great. It turns out to be especially juicy, tender and insanely aromatic. Although other types of fish also fit.
Ingredients
• 2 mackerels;
• 80 grams of sour cream;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 bunch of parsley;
• 0.5 tsp salts;
• 0.5 tsp turmeric
• 1 pinch of black pepper.
Cooking
1. We wash the carcasses of mackerel, take out the insides, and clean the abdomen from the inside with a knife. Black films should not remain, otherwise the dish will be bitter. We also rinse out the internal cavity.
2. Mix sour cream with turmeric, salt, pepper. Add ready-made fish mixes of spices, if desired.
3. Rub the carcasses from the inside with cooked sour cream sauce.
4. Cut the lemon into rings and shove it into the abdomen. Divide evenly into two fish.
5. We also divide the parsley into two parts and put it into the abdomen. The greens will need to be removed when serving, so do not cut and put the whole branches.
6. We shift the mackerel into greased forms.
7. Top with the remaining sour cream, spread all the remaining sauce.
8. We send to bake. A mackerel is prepared for about half an hour with an average mode of 180 degrees. Serving such fish can be not only hot, but also cold.
Oven fish with lemon and cheese
Cheese for fish in the oven with lemon is better to use hard varieties. He will give the dish a delicious crust and harmoniously fit into the taste. Any fish fillet is used. Tasty with tilapia.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of fish fillet;
• 70 grams of cheese;
• 1 lemon;
• 3-4 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 2 onion heads;
• any seasonings.
Cooking
1. Cut the fillet into small strips of 1.5-2 centimeters wide. Sprinkle with salt, you can take spices for fish, pour juice from half a lemon and set aside.
2. We cut the onion heads in large half rings, lay in a well-oiled shape.
3. Onion, put the remaining lemon, cut into pieces.
4. Now we lay the fillet in spices
5. Grease the fish with sour cream.
6. Three cheese on top and send to the oven, which we turn on 180 degrees in advance.
7. It remains to wait 25 minutes and can be removed!
Red fish in foil with lemon
The recipe for red fish in a foil with lemon, which requires only three ingredients. Of course, you can use all kinds of spices, herbs, add any seasonings at your discretion. But even without all this, the dish is amazing.
Ingredients
• 2 salmon steaks;
• 2 onion heads;
• 1 large or 2 small lemons.
Cooking
1. Squeeze the juice from one lemon and water the fish.
2. The second lemon is simply cut into large circles.
3. Onions are also cut into large rings.
4. We spread onion rings on the foil, on them fish steaks.
5. Top with lemon slices.
6. Join the edges of the foil together and firmly bored.
7. That's it! It remains to bake delicious salmon in the oven. It will take only half an hour. The temperature is around 190 degrees.
Baked fish with lemon and mayonnaise
To prepare such a fish, baked with lemon, you will need any fatty mayonnaise. You can take homemade sauce. The recipe is even suitable for dry fish, such as pike perch.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of fish;
• 0.15 kg of mayonnaise;
• 1 lemon big;
• 1 tsp spices for fish;
• some salt and oil.
Cooking
1. We gutted the fish, we peel off the husk and rinse thoroughly. Dry with paper towels. We cut in transverse slices no more than the spirit of centimeters.
2. Mix together all the seasonings and salt, you can add chopped herbs and dry garlic to them.
3. Pour the mixture into the fish and just mix everything with your hands.
4. Cut the lemon into circles.
5. In a greased form, we lay out the fish with slices down and up. Optionally, you can make an onion pillow for pieces.
6. Now put a circle of lemon on each piece.
7. Take the mayonnaise and put a teaspoon on each piece on top of the lemon. The remains are simply poured on top.
8. A fish dish is baked for about half an hour at 200 degrees.
Spicy fish with lemon in foil
To prepare such a fish with lemon in foil, you can use sea bass or sea bass. Although, with another fish, the dish turns out to be quite tasty.
Ingredients
• 2 fish;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 onion head;
• 1 red pepper sweet;
• 1 green sweet pepper;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 1 slice of ginger up to 4 centimeters;
• seasoning.
Cooking
1. We cut both peppers with rings, and also chop the onion head peeled from the husk.
2. Three ginger on a fine grater.
3. In soy sauce, squeeze the juice from the lemon and add ginger. We throw any seasonings or just pour a little ready-made mixture. Stir.
4. The cleaned and gutted carcasses are rubbed with the prepared mixture of lemon and ginger.
5. Put pepper and onion in foil, and fish on vegetables.
6. That's it! It remains only to tightly wrap the edges of the foil and send the fish to bake in the oven. We set 190 degrees and send it for 30-35 minutes. Serve with vegetables that were used as a pillow.
Fish with lemon - useful tips and tricks
• To prevent the fish from slipping out of the hands when cleaning and gutting, fingers dip in coarse salt. You can hold the carcass by a clothespin attached to the tail.
• Fish loves pickling and it is not necessary to keep slices in spices and lemon for only half an hour. You can flavor the product the day before, put it in a container and stand the night in the refrigerator.
• The aroma of citrus gives the fish not juice, but zest. It can be prepared in advance: to dry or freeze.
• In order not to waste precious time washing the pan, it can be covered with a piece of foil. The taste of the dish and the cooking time is not affected.
