Cod fish. Cooking recipes

All known fish belongs to the same name family of cod, can reach in adulthood huge sizes - up to 1, 7 meters. It has a white belly and an olive-greenish back with small brown patches. Inhabits fish cod most in the temperate regions of the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the important commercial fish, since the fat content in its liver is 74%. Even in the cod there are many different minerals and vitamins.

How to choose cod and what is cooked from it

If you want the cooked cod fish to be juicy and tasty, pay attention to its appearance when buying. Do not buy frozen fish, it has an unpleasant smell and will become after preparation of a watery and tasteless. If you buy a high-quality product, you will get a dish of the right consistency, special taste and aroma. It's not for nothing that culinary specialists of all countries believe that the codfish, the photo of which you can see here, is a real delicacy. What is it made of? A lot of things: cold and hot appetizers, delicious soups, it is stewed, fried, cooked on the grill and steamed, smoked, salted, baked, marinated. And from the liver and caviar cod makes very good canned food, of which our housewives cook pâtés, a wide variety of salads, and other delicious snacks. But this is not all: the liver of this fish is a very valuable raw material for the medical and pharmaceutical industry.

Use of Cod

Why is cod fish so popular in cooking? Its use for a man is obvious. First of all, because of fatty polyunsaturated acids, which, incidentally, is famous for almost all marine life. If you pay attention, for example, to the inhabitants of the Far North, who eat it all year round, you can see that they all have excellent health. These people are so used to this fish that they will not exchange cod for any other delicacies. If a person starts eating this fish regularly, then soon begins to notice all of its uniqueness, a huge benefit. What is very important, this product is never annoying and has a beneficial effect on health. Doctors, nutritionists recommend eating meat and cod liver not only for adults but also for children. Put out a fish for them in milk, and children will get natural calcium and lots of vitamins. What is important, no one will get harm from it, only benefit. In addition, of course, cases of individual intolerance.

Let's cook the cod

Everyone remembers the Soviet times, when on the shelves of the shops fish cod was represented, for the most part, by pates. And our hostesses learned how to process this sought-after ingredient, adding to many different and tasty salads. All of them turned out to be satisfying, not difficult, and were useful for our health and even beauty. When the perestroika times came, many traditional dishes, including some salads, were replaced by various exotic ones. But the salad with the use of cod liver remained popular, the most real masterpiece of cooking. And the fact that it was added several new-fangled ingredients, added to it the charm and sophistication. Today we will recall one of these salads, which is called "Sunflower". To put it briefly, this dish with mayonnaise and chips as ornaments. Although the liver itself is so fat that you can do without mayonnaise. Okay, before you tell us how to make fish cod, remember how they cooked Sunflower.

Prepare a cod liver salad

We will need: one can of liver cod, 400 grams of potatoes, olives, 200 grams of cucumbers, four eggs, mayonnaise and salt. This is a layered salad, in which all the layers, except the liver, should be soaked with mayonnaise. The first layer - grated finely boiled potatoes, then - cod liver, the main component, the third layer - proteins, finely grated. Do not forget to miss with mayonnaise. Further - green, finely chopped, onions, cucumbers and yolks, from which the name of the salad comes. On the top layer of mayonnaise we put small pieces of olives, by which are meant seeds, and on the perimeter lay out your favorite chips, but you can replace with cucumber slices, if you are adherents of a healthy diet. Such a sunflower will look a little immature. Cucumbers use fresh, not canned.

Bake the cod fillets under the tomatoes in the oven

Well, we have just bought the cod fish . Recipes for its preparation are numerous. We chose one of them - bake the fish in the oven. Get a hot dish, suitable for a typical day, and on a holiday. Ingredients: cod fillets or whole fish, two tomatoes, 80 ml of cream, two onions, 50 grams of mayonnaise, 100 grams of sour cream, half a lemon, salt and pepper. Now the recipe for how the codfish is prepared. Photo process can be found everywhere, and they help you to do everything right. We divide the fish: cut with a sharp knife and remove the ridge, ribs, bones. Also gently cut the skin. Fille put in a container designed for baking. Drink, salt, sprinkle with lemon juice. Then we pour the cream on the fillet, put the cut tomatoes, onion rings and salt. Add a lot of pepper. In a separate bowl mix sour cream with mayonnaise and lubricate the top layer. We send for 25 minutes in the oven, heated to 180 degrees. We serve on the table, which immediately turns into a festive one. Bon Appetit!