Useful pike in the oven, a recipe for every day.

If you want to please your loved ones with something delicious and useful at the same time, then it's time to cook such a dish - pike in the oven. The recipe is quite simple, and the cooking process will not take you much time. But all will appreciate your culinary abilities, and fish dishes will be constantly present in your family diet. In addition, you will agree that the home menu should not only be varied, but also useful, and the fish preserves a large number of vitamins and microelements in any treatment.

Useful properties of pike

Pike, like any fish, is rich in phosphorus, calcium, chlorine, potassium, molybdenum, fatty acids, proteins and other useful substances that ensure the health of our body. Even baked fish can store a huge amount of vitamins and trace elements.

Pike in batter or simply pike baked in foil, it turns out very delicate and juicy at the same time. Believe me, these dishes will please even those who are not special fans of fish products. Fish is especially tasty when cooked with vegetables.

In this article, we will talk about such an idle time and at the same time an unusual dish, like a pike in the oven. The recipe and the process of cooking this dish will be described below.

Before cooking any dish, fish must be pre-treated. To do this, very carefully wash the pike. After that, cleanse it from the scales, remove all the insides. Do not forget to cut the gills. After processing, our fish is ready to prepare a very tasty and healthy dish.

There are many options for cooking baked fish, but we will provide you with two of the most successful recipes.

Stuffed pike in the oven. Recipe

You will need such ingredients: one pike, greens to taste, one lemon, two tomatoes, vegetable oil, one onion, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and various spices.

Pre-prepared and cleaned fish salt with salt and pepper, as well as spices. On the outside of the pike, apply a thin layer of mayonnaise. Then cut slices of lemon and greens (you can take dill, parsley or kizu) and the resulting mixture stuff a pike.

On the prepared baking sheet, lay the foil, previously lubricated with any vegetable oil. Next, place the pike on the foil and put the rings of tomatoes and onions on top. After that, gently wrap the foil in such a way that during the baking of fish, its juice does not flow out.

Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees and put a pan with fish.

The fish is baked in the foil for about twenty to twenty-five minutes. At the end of this time, you get an appetizing pike with a ruddy crust. This dish you can decorate with fresh vegetables, olives and chopped herbs.

Pike in the oven is a recipe that will remain in your family for a long time.

Also very delicious is pike in sour cream.

Preparation of this dish does not take you much time.

Cut the prepared and processed pike into medium pieces, add salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste, then mix well. Leave the pike for a couple of minutes.

Then chop the onion rings and fry over low heat until it turns golden. After that, put the pike on the onion and fry on both sides. Fry the fish for five to seven minutes. Pour all the sour cream. Choose such sour cream so that it is not very thick, otherwise dilute it with a little water. After the sour cream boils, squash the pike for about ten to fifteen minutes.

Then sprinkle the pike with finely chopped herbs and put it out for another five minutes. Well, that's it, a great useful dish is ready! Serve the baked pike on a large flat dish. For beauty, you can sprinkle pike in sour cream with fresh vegetables, sliced in small pieces - best of all with tomatoes, Bulgarian pepper and fresh herbs.