A blue catfish from the perch-like family is an unusual species of fish that has something in common with sea eel and moray eel. It owes its name to strong jaws with a large number of teeth. But despite the awesome appearance, thanks to its high nutritional value and unsurpassed taste, catfish has taken its rightful place in various cuisines of the world.

Oven-baked catfish

This is an easy-to-cook dish with a delicate texture and great taste.

For its execution it is enough to prepare:

  • 2 steaks;
  • a stack of lemon juice;
  • salt and pepper

Stages of creating a dish:

  1. If necessary, the fish is thawed, then washed and dried with paper towels.
  2. Steaks are rubbed with salt and favorite spices, and then stacked in a refractory form, where they are poured with lemon juice.
  3. The mold is closed with foil and installed in the oven preheated to 190 ° C for 40 minutes.

Delicious fish soup

The beneficial properties of catfish saturate the soup with calcium, phosphorus and a large number of vitamins of various groups, which are so necessary for the human body.

To cook a nutritious first course, you need:

  • 1 kg catfish;
  • 1 carrot;
  • 2 medium onions;
  • 5 potato tubers;
  • greenery;
  • salt and spices.

The method of preparation consists in the following steps:

  1. Vegetables are washed and peeled.
  2. Carrots are rubbed on a grater. Bulbs are chopped in small cubes. From potatoes are prepared cubes.
  3. Thawed and dried fish fillet is cut into pieces, which are sent to a pot with salted water.
  4. After boiling water, foam is removed from its surface, which can give the broth a dark color.
  5. When there is no foam, potatoes are added to the fish.
  6. From the onion-carrot mixture, frying is prepared, which is laid out in the broth before the potatoes are cooked.
  7. The soup is seasoned, crushed with herbs and languishes under the lid for 5 minutes.

In creamy sauce

Tender meat perfectly complements the creamy sauce, giving the dish a sophistication and a particularly appetizing appearance.

To create a fish delicacy you need:

  • ½ kg catfish;
  • 780 ml cream;
  • 1 liter of fish broth;
  • 70 g of salt;
  • 5 g nori;
  • ground black pepper;
  • a stack of sunflower oil.

The sequence of actions:

  1. If you managed to buy the whole fish, then the initially thawed catfish is cut in the form of steaks, which are soaked in 2 liters of salt water.
  2. Cream is poured into a deep frying pan, the volume of which should be halved during the process of languishing. After that, a strong broth and algae are added to the tank.
  3. The sauce is infused to acquire a rich taste and whisk until smooth.
  4. The catfish is fried over high heat until golden brown, and then laid out in the sauce, where it is stewed until cooked.

How to cook catfish steak

So that instead of an appetizing fish with tender meat, a tasteless mess does not turn out, you should study the process of making steaks from blue catfish.

To create a dish, it is enough to prepare:

  • flour
  • salt;
  • sunflower oil;
  • fish fillet.

Basic cooking steps:

  1. First of all, the fish should be properly prepared: the filet is thawed, dried, crushed with salt and left for 30 minutes for marinating. This procedure will subsequently prevent the catfish from crumbling during frying.
  2. The pan is well heated.
  3. Prepared steaks are carefully rolled in flour and laid out in a bowl, where they are fried until golden brown.
  4. Ready steaks are not removed immediately, which allows you to maintain the neat shape of fish pieces.

With vegetables in foil

Since blue catfish is a large marine fish, most often it is ready-made steaks from it that go on sale.

The meat of this inhabitant of salt reservoirs goes well with various products. Therefore, in foil it can be easily baked with zucchini, eggplant, onions and other vegetables to taste.

To prepare a fish dish with a classic set of vegetables, it is enough to have:

  • 1 steak;
  • 100 ml mayonnaise;
  • 2 carrots;
  • 2 onions;
  • a piece of cheese;
  • sunflower oil;
  • salt and spices as desired.

To prepare a blue catfish, we follow a simple algorithm:

  1. The steak is defrosting.
  2. The carrots are rubbed on a fine grater and fried with pre-chopped onions until soft.
  3. A dressing is prepared from mayonnaise and favorite spices, which steak is well coated with.
  4. Cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater.
  5. Prepared fish is laid out in a form covered with foil and covered with a frying of vegetables.
  6. Everything is crushed by cheese chips.
  7. The foil closes, after which the dish is sent to the oven for 20 minutes, which was previously heated to 180 ° C.
  8. If there is a desire to get a more golden brown crust, then the dish is aged in the oven for another 5 minutes, but already without a metal coating.

In ginger and garlic marinade

In order for catfish fish dishes to maintain the nutritional value of the main product, the oven is most often used for their preparation. One of the delicious dishes is catfish in ginger and garlic marinade, baked in the oven.

To create a dish you need:

  • 30 g butter;
  • 15 ml of olive oil;
  • 20 g parsley;
  • 5 g of ginger root;
  • the same amount of lemon peel;
  • clove of garlic;
  • 1 catfish steak;
  • salt and extra spices as desired.

In the process of preparing a delicious and fragrant catfish dish, simple steps are taken:

  1. Butter is melted.
  2. The greens are crushed.
  3. Garlic is crushed.
  4. Lemon zest and ginger are rubbed.
  5. The bowl combines all the ingredients for preparing the marinade, which is used to pour a previously thawed, dried and grated steak.
  6. Fish in sauce is sent for 10 minutes to the refrigerator, from which it is then transferred to a refractory form.
  7. The catfish is baked for 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 ° C.

Fried in batter

Many even experienced housewives refuse to cook tender and juicy catfish in a pan due to its insidious ability to instantly turn into very unappetizing jelly when improperly processed. In order for the fish to turn out to be of the highest level and please not only with nutrition, but also with a beautiful appearance, it is enough to follow the cooking instructions.

Pre-purchase:

  • 1 kg of steaks;
  • egg;
  • flour;
  • salt;
  • sunflower oil.

Progress consists of the following actions:

  1. Thawed steaks are divided into 2 parts. Large bone is removed.
  2. Billets are placed in a bowl with brine, prepared at the rate of 15 g of salt per 1 liter of water.
  3. After 1 hour, the fish pieces are dried and pepper.
  4. From an egg, beaten with 100 ml of water and 100 g of flour, batter is prepared.
  5. A little more flour is poured onto a flat plate, in which a catfish falls off before dipping into the batter.
  6. Fish is fried in hot oil until golden brown.

Blue catfish is the most common type of large marine fish, presented on the shelves of our fish supermarkets. With proper preparation, it will amaze with its full taste, tenderness and juiciness of meat.

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