Pink salmon keeps its shape perfectly when cooked From it you can prepare various tasty and healthy dishes. Fans of fish in tomato sauce can use pink salmon as the main ingredient. This dry fish is excellent in such dishes. Her meat, soaked in sweet and sour tomato sauce, becomes tender and juicy.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
To prepare this dish, you should buy a whole carcass of pink salmon. If she has a yellow stomach, severely damaged skin, mucous or green gills and a dry tail, then it is better to look for this product elsewhere. Fish should be cleaned, remove entrails, fins and cut into portions. Tomato paste can be replaced with canned tomatoes in their own juice.
Important! If the fish is bought in a package, then you should pay attention not only to the expiration date, but also to the integrity of the package.
Recipes for making pink salmon in tomato sauce
The following are three pink salmon recipes with tomato sauce sauce. There are cooking options in a pan, oven and pots.
In pots
3000 g 1 day 1 hour 30 min
frozen carcass of pink salmon
1500 g
corn starch
5 tbsp. l
ground and dry garlic
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- To clear the frozen pink salmon from fins, tail, head. Make a cut on the back and remove the skin.
- Sprinkle fish with salt and spices for salting. Leave everything in the refrigerator overnight until thawing.
- Remove the fish and pat it dry with a paper towel. Cut pieces of meat from the carcass and wash in salt water, blot with a napkin.
- Cut the fish into small pieces. Pour boiling water over clay pots. Starch in 1 liter of water.
- Stir the tomato paste with a second liter of water and bring to a boil, adding 1 tbsp. l salt and 1 tbsp. with a hill of sugar, ground spices.
- Cook for 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. You can try and adjust the taste of the sauce to salt and sugar. Pour a pre-shaken starch solution into the sauce with a thin stream, stirring with a whisk.
- Boil the sauce until viscous for several minutes, stirring continuously.
- Drain boiling water from the pots and pat them dry with paper towels.
- Lay the pieces of fish in the dishes, filling it a little more than half the volume.
- Pour over boiling jelly sauce. Gently mix the fish slices with the sauce and close the lid.
- Wrap each pot with a towel and cover with another one on top.
- An hour later, the dish is ready, and it can be consumed. It turns out delicious fish with tomato sauce, which goes well with noodles and potatoes.
Video recipe
In the potDid you know? In 100 g of pink salmon, there is a daily norm of vitamin D, which is necessary for the normal absorption of calcium and the prevention of osteoporosis.
Baked in the oven with carrots and onions
1600 g 50 min
salt, pepper, spices for fish
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pickle slices of pink salmon, salted and sprinkled with spices.
- Peel onions and carrots, and then wash. Grate carrots on a coarse grater, and cut the onion into cubes.
- Pour the vegetable oil into the preheated stewpan and brown the onions on it, and then put the carrots.
- Pour some water into the fried vegetables and stew, adding salt, pepper and seasoning. Then add the tomato paste, mix well and simmer another 2 minutes.
- Pour 500 ml of water into the tomato-vegetable mixture and boil a couple more minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Put the pieces of fish in the oven dish and pour them with hot sauce.
- Cover with foil on top and bake in an oven warmed up to 220 ° for 30 minutes.
Video recipe
Baked in the oven with carrots and onionsIn a pan with vegetables
1700 g50 min
salt, black pepper
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Fry the pieces of fish in a heated pan in vegetable oil.
- Peel and wash the onion, and then cut it into cubes. Peel, wash and grate carrots on a coarse grater. You can use frozen.
- Mix tomato paste with mayonnaise and spices, salt. Add water to the desired consistency and squeeze a little juice from the lemon.
- In the same pan where the fish was fried, fry the onions and carrots.
- Put pieces of fried fish in a frying pan on the browned vegetables and pour them with sauce. Reduce heat and cover the pan. Simmer for several minutes until tender.
- The finished dish can be sprinkled with herbs.
Video recipe
In a pan with vegetablesDid you know? The presence in the pink salmon of selenium, iodine, a large amount of vitamin B12, cobalt and chromium normalizes the metabolism and the functioning of the hormonal system.
The pink salmon soaked in tomato paste sauce is tender and piquant. This fish is good to serve with mashed potatoes. However, you can serve boiled rice or pasta on the side dish.