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Pollock is a popular and affordable fish. Pollock cooks very quickly, does not have a specific fishy smell, its meat is white and tender. This fish contains a small amount of bones, so it is easy to cut. Pollock contains very little fat, but is rich in protein, phosphorus and selenium.
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Due to its easy digestibility and balanced mineral composition, pollock is recommended to be included in the diet of children, pregnant and lactating women, and the elderly. This fish goes well with almost all vegetables, cheese, and mushrooms. We offer you, in our opinion, better recipes for dishes made from pollock fillet
. The main thing is that the pollock fillet should be defrosted at room temperature, so the fish will retain all its taste and beneficial properties.
Pollock fillet in the oven
There are thousands of pollock dishes, but this fish is the juiciest and most tender when baked in the oven. We offer you a simple recipe for baking pollock. As a side dish you can serve vegetables, fresh or cooked in any way, rice, buckwheat.
Ingredients:
- Pollock (fillet) – 500 g
- Onions - 2 heads
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Mayonnaise - 100 g
- Sour cream (10-15%) - 100 g
- Mustard - 1 tbsp.
- Hard cheese - 100 g
Preparation:
❶ Cut the pollock fillet into portions. Salt, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice.
❷ Cut the onion into half rings and place in a baking dish, pre-greased with vegetable oil.
❸ Mix mayonnaise, sour cream and mustard in a separate cup. Dip each piece of pollock into the resulting sauce and place in the mold on top of the onion. Pour the remaining sauce over the fish and put everything in the refrigerator for 1 hour to marinate.
❹ Place the pan in an oven preheated to 200°C and bake for 15 minutes.
❺ Then take out the mold, sprinkle the fish with cheese, grated on a coarse grater. Place in the oven again for 10 minutes.
How to deliciously cook fish in the oven?
Pollock is considered a dietary fish, and therefore it is recommended to eat by anyone who wants to get in shape. The protein of this fish is very valuable, but at the same time easy to digest. The main thing is to fry the fish without fat. To prepare dietary pollock, we suggest using the oven and adding low-fat sour cream and onions to the dish.
Fresh celery and parsley are an ideal addition to fish.
We will need:
- pollock fillet - 600 g;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- sour cream - 200 ml;
- salt, pepper to taste.
Place the fish on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. Let's add salt and pepper. Place onion cut into thin half rings on top of the pollock pieces and pour sour cream over everything. Cover the fish with foil and place in an oven preheated to 220 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes. 5 minutes before cooking, remove the foil and let the fish brown. Serve with lettuce, cherry tomatoes and a large bunch of fresh herbs.
Pollock fillet in a frying pan
Pollock fried in a frying pan
- This is perhaps the most popular recipe for cooking fish in Russian families. Pollock does not need to be marinated; its meat is already very tender. But, if necessary, you can prepare a marinade from 3 tbsp. l. soy sauce and 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice (per 1 kg of fish) and marinate the pollock for a couple of hours. Pollock fillet for frying in a frying pan must be thawed at room temperature - this way the fish will retain all its taste and beneficial qualities.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- Two chicken eggs
- Half a cup of flour
- Salt, ground black pepper - a pinch
- Vegetable oil for frying
Preparation:
❶ Whisk the eggs with salt and pepper.
❷ Cut the pollock fillet into portions.
❸ Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil.
❹ Dip the pollock pieces one by one into the egg, then into the flour and place in the frying pan.
❺ Fry the fish on both sides over medium heat, turning when done.
❻Ready pollock acquires a golden color and an appetizing crust.
How to pickle
With celery
One of the homemade pollock fillet dishes is salting with celery.
Products:
- fish fillet – 2 pcs.;
- celery - 1 sprig;
- oil – 3 tbsp. l.;
- salt;
- laurel
Recipe for preparing fish for salting:
- We cut the fillet into two halves.
- Throw a sprig of celery into the pan, pour in oil and add plenty of salt.
- Salt and pepper the fish, sprinkle with chopped bay.
- Place in a container, pour oil and cover with celery.
- We take the pan to a cold place for a day.
With sugar and herbs
You can salt fish in another way. Ingredients:
- fish – 1kg;
- salt – 1 tablespoon;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- Spicy herbs - optional.
Recipe:
- Cut the fish into pieces, add sugar and salt, and you can add herbs.
- Place in a cool place for 24 hours.
- Before serving, sprinkle with lemon juice and oil.
All family members and guests will be happy with such salted fish!
Pollock fillet in batter
Pollock prepared according to this recipe can compete with restaurant delicacies. The fish has a delicate texture, a light lemon flavor and a crispy crust.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- Lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.
- Cereal or pomegranate sauce - 4 tbsp. l.
For the batter:
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Kefir at room temperature - 1 cup
- Flour - 1/2 cup
- Vegetable oil - 100 ml
- Sugar - 1 teaspoon
- A pinch of salt and paprika (or ground black pepper)
Preparation:
❶ Knead the dough from eggs, kefir, flour and sugar. The consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
❷ Cut the pollock fillet into small pieces (the size of a matchbox).
❸ Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. You shouldn’t skimp on oil, otherwise the fish will cook unevenly.
❹ Dip pieces of pollock one at a time into the dough and lower into the heated oil. Fry the fish on both sides and remove with a slotted spoon.
❺ Place the finished pieces on a paper towel to absorb excess fat.
Batter for fish
can be prepared in other ways. We offer you the two most popular methods. The first one is the simplest, the second one is delicious and original.
Batter for fish with sour cream
You will need: 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, a pinch of ground black pepper, 5 tbsp. spoons of sour cream and flour. Mix eggs, salt, pepper and sour cream. Gradually add flour and knead the dough, which has a consistency similar to thick sour cream.
Beer batter for fish
Fish in beer batter
It turns out juicy, tender, with a crispy crust. The batter must be made in advance. It should sit in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, or better yet, overnight. The taste of beer is not felt in the finished dish. You can fry any fish, squid in beer batter, and also use it to fry chicken pieces. You will need: 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup light beer, 1 teaspoon baking powder, a pinch of salt. Flour with baking powder must be sifted into a cup. Add some salt. Make a well in the flour and slowly pour in the cold beer, stirring constantly. Place the finished batter in the refrigerator.
Pollock fillet cutlets
Pollock cutlets turn out surprisingly tasty, juicy and delicate. Since this fish does not have a pronounced aroma, even picky children will like the cutlets. We will tell you how to cook pollock cutlets in a frying pan and in the oven.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- White loaf – 200 g
- One large onion
- One egg
- Salt - 1 tbsp. spoon
- Semolina – 50 g
- Milk – 50 ml
- Vegetable oil for frying
- A pinch of ground black pepper
- Dried herbs (parsley, dill) - 5 g
Preparation:
❶ Chop the pollock fillet as finely as possible with a knife. It is better not to use a meat grinder to preserve the juiciness of the minced meat.
❷ Cut off the crusts from the loaf and soak in milk, adding semolina to it.
❸ Finely chop the onion.
❹ Add egg, onion and swollen bread to the minced fish. Salt and pepper, add dry herbs. Mix the minced meat until smooth. Form cutlets of any shape.
❺ Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry the cutlets on one side over medium heat until golden brown. Turn the cutlets over, cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and bring the dish to readiness.
❻ You can cook pollock cutlets in the oven
. To do this, place the cutlets in a lightly greased form with vegetable oil and bake them for 40-50 minutes in an oven preheated to 180°C until browned.
The best spices
The most suitable spices and herbs:
- Ground pepper – allspice, pink, black, white. Add a little bit of it just to add some spice and enhance the taste of the seafood.
- Nutmeg and grated ginger will add piquancy to the meat.
- Melissa will add a touch of freshness.
- Add the bay leaf at the end of cooking.
- Oregano and thyme will add a light spicy note.
- Garlic is great when stewing pollock; it adds heat without killing the fishy taste.
- You can add mustard to the sauce or when stewing; it will give the dish a slight sour note.
- When cooking, you can add onions and parsley, the broth will become tastier and more aromatic.
- Cloves will add a piquant taste to the dish.
- For baked dishes, use rosemary, lemon juice, basil, fennel, parika, turmeric, and ground celery.
Pollock fillet with potatoes
From pollock fillet you can prepare a dish that both adults and children will enjoy. This is a casserole with fish and potatoes with a cheese crust. The dish is easy and quick to prepare.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 1 kg
- Pollock fillet – 500 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Any hard cheese - 50 g
- Mayonnaise or sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Vegetable oil - 50 g
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Preparation:
❶ Peel the potatoes, cut into circles and place in boiling water. Boil for 5 minutes. Drain in a colander and add cold water (the cooking process will stop immediately).
❷ Cut the pollock into thin strips, marinate in mayonnaise or sour cream, salt and pepper to taste.
❸ Cut the onion into cubes and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
❹ Place 1/2 of the potatoes in a greased baking dish, a layer of pollock on top, then a layer of fried onions. The last layer will again be potatoes.
❺ Grease everything with mayonnaise and place the casserole in an oven preheated to 220°C.
❻ Bake for about 20 minutes (until the potatoes are golden).
❼ Remove the casserole, sprinkle with a layer of grated cheese, return to the oven and leave for another 5 minutes until the cheese melts and let it melt.
❽ Remove the finished casserole from the oven and let it stand for about 15 minutes. After this, the dish can be cut into portions.
Stewed with vegetables and sour cream
Stewed pollock in a frying pan can be prepared with any vegetables. In the summer season, it is great to complement the dish with ripe tomatoes, bell peppers, young carrots and onions.
For preparation you will need:
- 3 tomatoes;
- 3 small carrots;
- large bell pepper;
- large onion;
- half a glass of low-fat sour cream;
- salt, pepper to taste.
But the best spice for such a dish is regular ground black pepper.
- Fry the fish in a frying pan and set the pieces aside.
- Place the vegetables cut into strips into a saucepan and simmer until soft.
- We combine vegetables with fish, pour sour cream over everything, let it boil and immediately turn everything off.
- Let the dish cool slightly and serve.
This pollock goes perfectly with buckwheat, rice and literally melts in your mouth. It is good hot and cold.
Baked pollock fillet
Another way to cook pollock fillet in the oven is to bake it with tomatoes and cheese.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- Hard cheese – 150 g
- Sour cream – 150 g
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Bunch of dill
- Salt - to taste
- Seasoning for fish - 1 tbsp. spoon
Preparation:
❶ Cut pollock fillet into portions.
❷ Cut the onion into half rings, tomatoes into circles.
❸ Prepare sour cream dressing by adding chopped garlic, dill, salt and spices to the sour cream.
❹ Place onion on the bottom of a baking dish, greased with oil, and fish on top. Brush the pollock pieces with sour cream dressing.
❺ Place tomato slices on top of the fish. Sprinkle everything with grated cheese and grease with sour cream.
❻ Place in an oven preheated to 200°C and bake for about 40 minutes.
Pollock fillet in a slow cooker
Incredibly tasty fish on a bed of vegetables and creamy sour cream sauce can be easily and quickly prepared in a slow cooker.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- Onions - 2 heads
- Carrots - 1 large
- Sour cream – 100 g
- Cream - 150 ml
- Seasoning for fish - 1 tbsp. spoon
- Salt - to taste
Preparation:
❶ Cut the pollock into portions, sprinkle with salt and seasoning.
❷ Cut the onion into cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
❸ Pour a little vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and add onions and carrots.
❹ Close the multicooker lid and set the “Bake” mode for 50 minutes.
❺ Mix sour cream, cream and a pinch of salt in a cup.
❻ Vegetables in a multicooker must be stirred periodically. 20 minutes after the start of stewing, place pieces of fish on top of the vegetables. Pour the creamy sour cream mixture over the fish and vegetables. Close the lid again and continue to simmer until the end of the program.
Pollock marinated with carrots and onions
Ingredients:
- Pollock – 400 g,
- Onions – 1 piece,
- Carrots – 1 piece,
- Tomato paste - 3 large spoons,
- Wheat flour – 100 g,
- 9% vinegar – 30 ml,
- Sugar – 1 small spoon,
- Vegetable oil – 50 ml,
- Allspice black pepper – 6 peas,
- Bay leaf – 1 piece,
- Cloves, salt - to taste.
Cooking method:
Remove the fins and entrails of the fish. Rinse with water. Cut into thin pieces. Pepper and salt. Leave for 20 minutes. Pour the wheat flour into a plate. Dredge fish pieces in flour. I put the frying pan on the stove. I pour in the oil and heat it up. I fry the pollock on each side over high heat. Make sure it doesn't burn.
To form a light golden brown crust, it is enough to wait 15–20 seconds. After the time has passed, turn it over. Peel the carrots and grate them on a coarse grater. Chop the onion and sauté, after a few minutes add the carrots. Simmer, stirring gently and avoiding burning. 8 minutes is enough.
Pour tomato paste diluted in water into the sauté. Simmer for additional time - 5 minutes. At the end, add salt, add peppercorns, throw in 1 bay leaf, and pour in vinegar. After adding acetic acid, seasonings, spices (optional), simmer the pollock over low heat for 10 minutes.
Pour the hot marinade over the browned fish. Leave the dish alone for 4 hours. If you haven't calculated the amount of dressing, add water. Helpful advice.
To add a special aroma, you need to add spicy cloves to the sauteing.
Pollock fillet in foil
From pollock fillet and potatoes you can prepare a complete dish that does not require separate side dishes. Unless a fresh salad and greens wouldn’t hurt.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 600 g
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Onion - 1 head
- Sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Salt, fish spices - to taste
Preparation:
❶ Peel the potatoes and cut into slices.
❷ Cut the pollock fillet into portions.
❸ Cut the onion into half rings.
❹ Cut 4 squares of foil, grease each with oil.
❺ Place a layer of potatoes, a layer of onions on each square of foil, and pieces of pollock on top. Salt everything and sprinkle with spices to taste.
❻ Mix mayonnaise and sour cream and coat the pollock pieces.
❼ Fold the edges of the foil, place the portions on a baking sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 200°C for 30 minutes.
Pollock fillet with cheese
Cooking pollock under a tender cheese crust is easy and quick. You can serve this dish with a salad of fresh vegetables, boiled potatoes or rice.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- Hard cheese 200 g
- Onions - 2 heads
- 1/2 lemon
- Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Seasoning for fish, salt - to taste
Preparation:
❶ Cut the fish into portions. Salt, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice.
❷ Cut the onion into half rings.
❸ Place a layer of half an onion on a greased baking sheet, and pieces of pollock on top. Place the remaining onion on the fish. Make a mesh of mayonnaise on top. Sprinkle everything with grated cheese.
❹ Bake in an oven preheated to 190°C for about half an hour.
Pollock fillet with vegetables, cheese and mayonnaise
You can prepare a complete dish of pollock fillet by baking it with vegetables under a cheese coat.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 1 kg
- Carrots - 3 pcs.
- Onions - 2 heads
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 200 g
- Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste
Preparation:
❶ Cut the pollock fillet into portions and dry, placing it on a paper towel for 5 minutes.
❷ Cover the bottom of the baking sheet with foil or parchment and grease with oil. Place fish fillets, trying to cover the entire bottom. Salt and pepper.
❸ Cut the onion into half rings and place half on top of the fish. Spread the next layer of carrots, grated on a coarse grater. Next is a layer of tomatoes cut into slices. The last layer will be cheese grated on a coarse grater.
❹ Next, use mayonnaise to make a mesh or completely cover the cheese.
❺ Place the baking sheet in the oven for 50-60 minutes at 180 degrees. The finished fish “under a fur coat” can be sprinkled with freshly chopped herbs to taste.
More delicious and quick recipes
Experienced chefs know that pollock is a unique fish of its kind. It is quick and easy to prepare, and its neutral taste allows you to experiment, adding new ingredients each time.
And what else can you cook from pollock quickly and tasty? Don't panic, we have the answer! We have prepared two excellent recipes for quick pollock dishes.
Fish in an “egg coat” with vegetables
It will take about 30-40 minutes to prepare this miracle of culinary art. The resulting taste will remain in your memory for a long time.
You will need the following ingredients:
- Pollock fillet - 600 gr.;
- Three medium tomatoes (you can add other vegetables to taste: zucchini, potatoes, and so on);
- A little greenery;
- Two eggs;
- Lemon juice;
- Butter;
- Spices.
Rinse the pollock fillet, remove excess moisture and sprinkle with lemon juice.
Place in a baking dish, after greasing it with oil.
Cut the tomatoes into slices and place in a mold, on top of the fish.
If you use other vegetables, the algorithm of action is the same. Add spices and finely chopped herbs.
Beat the eggs well and pour into the mold.
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Prepare potatoes for the fish, not just plain ones, but country-style baked ones in the oven. Here you can choose a recipe for every taste. This is such a delicious thing, just a heavenly pleasure!
In this article we will introduce you to proven recipes for making homemade cheese. You can make regular, hard and processed cheeses from milk yourself. You have never eaten such a delicious product before!
Place in the oven at 200 degrees.
When you see a golden brown crust, take it out, the fish is ready!
Unique fish fritters
Regular fish fritters take on a unique flavor when made from pollock.
Don’t wait, try it and you will understand how simple, quick this recipe is, and most importantly, how it allows you to get a dish of great taste.
Prepare the ingredients:
- 0.5 kg pollock;
- Three eggs;
- Two large onions;
- 3 tbsp. l. mayonnaise and the same amount of flour;
- Spices;
- Vegetable oil for frying.
The first thing you need to do is prepare the fish. Clean it of scales and fins, rinse thoroughly, put it in boiling water for 5 minutes, then separate the bones. Mash the remaining fillet with a fork.
Finely chop the onion and fry it in a frying pan until golden brown. At this time, mix the eggs with flour and beat well. The main thing is not to leave any lumps.
Add spices and mayonnaise here, beat again. Place the prepared onion and fish mass into the egg mixture and stir.
Conveniently spoon the mixture onto a hot frying pan using a tablespoon.
Excellent pollock pancakes are ready to delight you and your loved ones!
Korean pollock fillet heh
You can prepare pollock fillet as a spicy appetizer heh. This dish is especially loved by men and can become a decoration for anyone, even a holiday table. Preparing the appetizer is not difficult, the main thing is to keep the dish in the refrigerator for good marinating. Pollock can be replaced with another boneless fish. Adjust the spiciness of the pepper to your taste.
Ingredients:
- Pollock fillet – 500 g
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Vinegar 9% - 4 tbsp. spoons
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Ground black pepper - 1/2 teaspoon
- Coriander (ground) - 1/3 teaspoon
- Sugar - 1/2 teaspoon
