Pike in the oven - quick and simple recipes

Secrets for preparing the perfect pike dish

To properly salt the carcass, it must be immersed in a saline solution (not concentrated) for 10 minutes.

You can remove the specific smell of mud using a vinegar or lemon solution. To do this, you need to prepare a weak solution with a suitable key ingredient and place the pike in it for 60 - 90 minutes. You can also soak it in milk, and then move on to cooking the pike.

It is best to remove the skin from the fish after cooking it (if the recipe allows for it). This makes the meat juicier and more tender.

How to bake deliciously in pieces

The easiest way to cook pike is to bake it in the oven. The fish can be prepared as a whole carcass or in pieces, served with any sauce, it is especially piquant with garlic dressing.

Ingredients:

• two small pike carcasses;
• bulb;
• herbs, spices.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the pike into small pieces, sprinkle with salt and pepper, mix and wait 15 minutes. To rid the fish of the repulsive smell of mud, you can pour it with citrus juice, apple cider vinegar, or marinate it in mayonnaise.
2. Grease the foil with vegetable oil, lay out the pieces of fish, put onion half rings on top, wrap and put in the oven for 25 minutes (temperature 190°C). 10 minutes before the end, the foil can be opened slightly.
3. Serve the finished fish with herbs and any sauce.

Classic recipe for pike in the oven

Pike dishes can be prepared in different ways, but the classic method is considered the most popular.

To prepare it you need the following set of ingredients:

• 1.5 kg of fish,
• 130 – 160 ml medium fat sour cream,
• 200 g onions, you can also use red ones,
• 1 small lemon
• 80 ml unrefined vegetable oil.

You will also need classic seasonings and spices for fish.

1. Prepare the carcasses. Gut, remove scales and gills, and rinse well and, if necessary, remove large fins.
2. Rub them on each side with spices, salt and pepper. Set aside for 25 – 35 minutes.
3. Peel the onion and cut it into large rings.
4. Place sour cream in a separate bowl and add vegetable oil.
5. Pour the mixture over the onions and place everything on a baking sheet on foil. Place whole carcasses on top of the onions and coat them well on all sides.
6. Place a small amount of onion into the bellies and wrap tightly in foil.

Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 - 200 degrees for 35 - 40 minutes.

Before serving, garnish the dish with lemon slices and olives.

This dish will truly surprise guests and family members. Pike not only has an amazing taste, but also microelements that are beneficial for the body. You can also cook it even during a diet, because 100 g of meat contains only 86 kcal.

With lime and herbs

Pike baked in foil in the oven will become especially aromatic if you add citrus fruits to it. In addition, such fruits neutralize the unpleasant aftertaste inherent in the meat of adult animals.

Required ingredients:

• carcass (1 kg or a little more);
• whole lime;
• sprigs of dried herbs (basil, rosemary);
• garlic cloves (6 pcs.);
• orange (1/2 pcs.);
• green beans (500 g);
• dry white wine (3.5 tbsp.);
• vegetable oil;
• freshly ground pepper.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Grate the zest from the citrus fruits and squeeze out the juice.
2. Mix the ingredients with pepper and rub them into the skin and inner walls of the pike's belly. Add wine.
3. Separately blanch the beans.
4. Cover a baking sheet with foil.
5. Place herbs and beans on it.
6. Place fish on top.
7. Cut the garlic cloves into slices and place them around and on the carcass.
8. Sprinkle everything with oil.
9. Now the pike needs to be wrapped in several layers of foil (about five).
10. Cooks for about 20 minutes at 240 degrees.

Stewed potatoes would be a good side dish.

Pike baked in a sleeve with vegetables

You can prepare a pike dish in the oven using the following products:

• 1 medium sized fish carcass,
• 100 g onions,
• 150 g bell red pepper,
• 300 g tomatoes,
• 70 – 90 ml vegetable oil,
• 1 small lemon or half a medium one.

You will also need salt and pepper (ground, black).

1. Wash, peel and chop all vegetables as you prefer.
2. Place them in a deep plate and sprinkle with lemon juice, add spices and mix everything.
3. Prepare the fish, clean and gut it. Then rub each side with spices and place the vegetable mixture in the belly. After this, secure or stitch the incision.
4. Lubricate the inside of the sleeve with a small amount of oil and place the carcass with lemon slices in it, close the edges. Place everything on a baking sheet or pan.
5. Place the baking sheet in a cold oven.

Turn it on to 200 degrees and after heating, bake the fish for 35 - 45 minutes.

Sometimes housewives get confused and don’t know how long it takes to prepare such a culinary masterpiece. They time the oven until the oven heats up, and after the time has elapsed, they end up with soggy fish that they have to finish baking. Pike in a sleeve in the oven must be cooked correctly, and in order to avoid this mistake, you need to remember when to time it.

If pike is being prepared for the first time and for a festive table, then it is better to choose recipes with photos. With their help, you can see the result of cooking in advance.

Pike with “Royally” sauce

It is better to choose recipes for pike fillets in the oven using sauce. This way the fish will be juicy and filled with new flavors.

In order to make this masterpiece, the following products are needed:

• 1 medium sized carcass,
• 100 g onion, onion or red,
• 100 g carrots,
• 40 g celery,
• 150 ml sour cream (suitable with 20% fat content),
• 100 ml tomato paste,
• 50 g flour of the first or highest grade,
• 50 ml sunflower oil.

For seasonings, you will need salt and pepper in the required quantity. For the side dish you will need polished rice.

1. Peel the carrots, celery and onions. Cut the vegetables into thin small strips.
2. Prepare the carcass, gut it, rinse and cut into portions (steaks or fillets). If you prepare the fillet, remove the skin and remove all the bones (including the backbone and rib bones).
3. Rub them with spices and, if necessary, khmeli-suneli seasoning.
4. Place a small amount of flour in a flat plate and roll the pieces on each side.
5. Fry them in hot oil in a frying pan until lightly browned.
6. In another frying pan, fry the vegetables until fully cooked and then add sour cream and pasta to them. Mix everything and pour in a glass of water. Season and simmer over low heat until boiling.
7. Boil rice in a saucepan with clean filtered water.
8. Then place the fish pieces in it and place the frying pan (if the design allows) in the oven, preheated to 160 degrees for 15 minutes.

The prepared dish is served on the table in portioned plates with boiled rice. You can decorate it with parsley leaves, olives and lemon slices.

This pike with rice perfectly satisfies hunger, but is considered a low-calorie dish. A 100 g serving contains only 130 kcal.

If it is not recommended to place the pan in the oven, then transfer everything to a preheated baking dish

With lemon and herbs

Baking aromatic pike is quite simple; all you need is lemon and herbs.

Ingredients:

• fish carcass;
• one lemon fruit;
• a bunch of greens and parsley.

Cooking method:

1. We take the carcass and make cuts along the entire length of the back. Rub with salt, pepper and other spices of your choice.
2. We stuff the carcass with chopped herbs and lemon slices, wrap it in foil and bake for half an hour (temperature 200°C).
3. Serve with boiled potatoes and salad.

Pike with potatoes, zucchini and mayonnaise

This is one of the easiest ways to prepare delicious food and requires the following ingredients:

• 1 medium sized pike
• 100 g onions,
• 300 g potatoes,
• 150 – 200 g zucchini,
• 50 – 60 ml vegetable oil,
• 30 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice,
• 80 ml mayonnaise.

You also need classic spices (salt, pepper) in the required quantities.

1. Prepare the carcass for use. Remove the entrails, gills and large fins, and then rinse well.
2. Rub it on all sides with spices and coat it with mayonnaise and lemon juice sauce.
3. Peel the zucchini and potatoes and cut into slices.
4. Remove the skins from the onion and cut it into half rings. Place part of it with the vegetables, and place the other half in the belly.
5. Grease a baking sheet with oil, place zucchini, potatoes and onions on it in layers, and place pike on top.
6. Pour the remaining mayonnaise and juice over everything and place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

Pike should be baked for 40 - 50 minutes. After this, the dish is served on the table in one large plate, decorated with herbs and olives.

It is best to sprinkle fish with mayonnaise with grated hard cheese. Then the dish will have a golden crust and will look even better

Baking recipe with vegetables

Many housewives do not really like to cook pike; they consider it bony and dry. But baked pike can become a real decoration for the holiday table, you just need to know how to cook it correctly.

Ingredients:

• pike, weighing 1.5 kg;
• two small onions and two carrots;
• zucchini;
• two tomatoes;
• three potato tubers;
• 55 ml mayonnaise;
• 25 g mustard;
• green onions.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the onion into half rings, cut the tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and zucchini into rings, mix the vegetables together with seasonings, leaving a few carrot slices.
2. Sprinkle the pike with salt, pepper and grease with mustard, make cuts on the carcass.
3. Place a vegetable pillow on foil, fish on top, put carrot slices in the belly and grease with mayonnaise
4. Wrap, bake for 50 minutes (temperature 170°C), then unfold the foil and keep the dish in the oven for another 10 minutes.
5. Sprinkle the finished fish with vegetables with green onions and serve.

Baked pike fillet

Pike fillet in the oven can be prepared using the following products:

• 500 g prepared fillet,
• 200 g onions,
• 100 – 150 g carrots,
• 150 g fat sour cream,
• 2 cloves of garlic or 10 g of dry, ground garlic,
• 1 small lemon or half a medium one
• 100 g of first or highest grade flour,
• 15 g coriander,
• 10 g fish seasoning,
• 1 small bunch of fresh parsley.

For spices you will need salt and ground pepper. If the dish needs to be spicier, then chefs recommend using a mixture of black and red pepper.

How to cook pike cutlets with lard

1. If you have a whole carcass, then prepare it for use. Gut, wash, carefully remove all fins, and then pull off the skin. After this, remove the backbone and all bones, even small ones. Prepare the fillet by cutting it into small pieces.
2. Wash and peel vegetables and herbs.
3. Place sour cream, chopped garlic and seasonings in a plate with high edges. Mix everything well.
4. Rub the fillet pieces with spices, sprinkle with lemon juice and pour over the marinade. Leave it for 90 - 120 minutes in a cool place.
5. Cut the carrots into strips and the onion into half rings.
6. Fry them in hot oil until golden brown. Lightly salt and pepper them while sautéing.
7. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the marinated pieces of meat on both sides until a light golden brown crust forms.
8. Place pieces of fish and fried onions and carrots in a baking dish or baking sheet and pour in a small amount of marinade. Place everything in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

It is necessary to ensure that the fish is cooked for no longer than 35 minutes. Otherwise, the meat may lose its juiciness and become dry.

After the time has expired, the dish can be taken out and served. Before this, it should be sprinkled with chopped herbs and garnished with small lemon slices.

Pike baked in the oven according to this recipe turns out very juicy and tasty. It is not required to be supplemented with a side dish, but if desired, you can serve boiled rice or potatoes with it.

Bake pike using foil and oven

There are countless recipes for juicy and delicious fish. Pike is cooked both at home and over a charcoal fire or on a grill. But to make it truly tasty, you can’t do without foil. The flesh of pike is lean, so all the juices that are released during cooking must be properly preserved. In this case, metal paper or a cooking sleeve will help. Pike in the oven in foil will be tender and juicy. You can bake it with a variety of ingredients. Any experiments are always welcome.