Delicious stuffed mackerel, decorated in the form of a parcel, can become a Sunday dinner or decoration of a festive table. This recipe will appeal to everyone who does not like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. After all, at the same time, in addition to baked fish, you will get a delicious healthy side dish.
We recommend that you carefully consider the choice of fish, mackerel should be absolutely even, not twisted, without yellow smudges on the skin. The composition and proportions of the filling can be varied. In addition to vegetables, use shrimp, mussels, grated cheese or boiled rice. Spices and soy sauce will help emphasize the taste of mackerel. Fans of spicy tastes can add hot peppers to the filling.
Before baking, in order to create the illusion of a parcel, mackerel is tied with twine and wrapped in parchment paper, and then in foil.
Ingredients:
- Mackerel – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil – 40 ml.
- Carrots – 50 ml.
- Onion – 80 g.
- Lemon – 60 g.
- Crackers – 10 g.
- Hot pepper – 4 g.
- Sweet pepper – 200 g.
- Nuts – 10 g.
- Salt, pepper – to taste.
How to cook:
1. Cut off the head and tail of the mackerel and remove the fins. Make an incision in the center of the back.
2. Expand the mackerel with a book, remove the backbone and bones. Clean out the insides and black film. Drizzle with soy sauce.
3. Turn the fish over, make cruciform cuts. Drizzle with soy sauce.
4. Prepare the filling. Grate carrots with large holes. Remove seeds and entrails from sweet and hot peppers. Cut finely. Chop the peeled onion into medium pieces.
5. Fry the prepared components in vegetable oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Add finely chopped lemon and dried walnuts. Salt and pepper. Mix stuffing.
6. Spread the filling over the mackerel.
7. Roll up the fish and tie it with twine or twine. Lubricate the mackerel on all sides with vegetable oil, wrap in parchment paper.
8. Put the parcel on a sheet of foil and wrap it. Cook stuffed mackerel in the oven 190 – 200 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
9. Unpack the finished fish, carefully transfer to a serving plate. Spread around the leek, sliced olives, cherry tomatoes.
Bon appetit!