A step-by-step recipe for baked pike perch in soy sauce. Features of the choice of fish. Video recipe.
Pike perch in soy sauce baked in the oven is an incredibly tasty and aromatic dish. Heat treatment in the oven, in contrast to frying in a pan, allows you to maximally preserve all the useful properties of the dish and create a special captivating aroma. In addition, pike perch meat is considered dietary.
The taste of oven-baked pike perch in soy sauce is entirely dependent on the quality of the ingredients. You should pay particular attention to the choice of fish. Dried fins, tail and scales, as well as dull brownish gills indicate that the fish was caught a long time ago. Moreover, it should not be lethargic. A fresh carcass is always elastic, the scales are shiny, and the gills are red.
It is not recommended to buy a headless gutted carcass, ready-made fillets, as well as pieces of fish in plastic containers, because it is highly likely that the product is not fresh. Frozen fish is also difficult to judge about its freshness.
Choosing fish is perhaps the hardest part of a recipe for pike perch in soy sauce in the oven. the cooking technology itself does not require any special skills and cooking knowledge.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 70 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pike perch - 6 pieces
- Soy sauce - 20 ml
- Mustard beans - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 1 tsp
- Black pepper - to taste
Cooking pike perch baked in soy sauce in the oven step by step
1. First of all, prepare the marinade. To do this, mix the soy sauce with sugar, add mustard and pepper to the mixture. Leave it for a while so that the sugar crystals dissolve completely.
2. Separate the head from the fish, cut off the fins, peel off the husk, remove the insides and cut into portions. In accordance with the recipe for pike perch in soy sauce in the oven, there is absolutely no need to separate the fillet from the bones. So the pieces will keep their shape perfectly after cooking. Next, grease a small baking container with high sides with refined vegetable oil and place the fish blank into it.
3. Fill the pieces of pike perch with marinade, cover with foil or paper towel and leave at room temperature for 1-1, 5 hours. This is enough time for the fish to absorb the flavor and aroma of the soy sauce.
4. After that, place the pike perch in soy sauce in the oven, which must be preheated to 180 degrees. The baking time is short, because marinated fish cooks quickly enough. Usually 20-30 minutes are enough. A dark crust with a spicy taste forms on the surface of each piece. After baking, pike perch meat in soy sauce acquires a delicate structure, and the absence of small bones will bring even more pleasure from the meal.
5. Oven-baked pike perch in soy sauce is ready! To serve it to the table, it is carefully removed from the mold and placed on a common plate or served in portions with a side dish. This dish goes well with boiled rice or potatoes.
See also the video recipe:
Delicious baked fish in soy sauce
