Cod is popular among culinary specialists. This is perhaps one of the most delicious dietary products from which you can cook many interesting dishes.
Oven cod steak - basic cooking principles
Cod meat is highly nutritious. It contains a minimum of fat. Cod goes well with almost any ingredient.
Steaks are sold mostly frozen, but you can buy fresh fish, cut it and cut it in portions. The frozen product is thawed only at room temperature. Never use hot water or a microwave for this.
Before baking, steaks are marinated in different sauces, so that the taste of the fish is saturated.
Cod in the oven can be prepared separately, or with vegetables, mushrooms or cheese.
To prevent dry fish, you can pre-fry it until golden brown, and then bake in the oven. Especially juicy cod is obtained in a sauce based on fish stock, cream, tomato juice or sour cream. Sauce is poured over fish before baking, or watered before serving.
Recipe 1. Cod steak in the oven with tarragon sauce
Ingredients
butter - 60 g;
cod (steaks) - kg;
salt;
dry white wine - half a glass;
black pepper;
fresh tarragon - four branches;
white bread crackers - 100 g;
freshly squeezed lemon juice - 30 ml.
Cooking method
1. We wash the fish under a stream of cold water and dry with paper towels. We spread half the oil in a thick-walled form, melt it.
2. Pepper and salt fish. Rinse and dry the tarragon.
3. Put the cod steaks in the form. We lay out the tarragon branches and fill everything with wine.
4. Cover the mold with a lid or foil and place it in a preheated oven for 15 minutes. Cook at 180 C. Then we take out the form, open the lid and sprinkle the steaks with breadcrumbs. Sent to the oven for another ten minutes. A few minutes before the readiness we turn on the "grill" mode so that the cod is covered with a delicious crispy crust.
Recipe 2. Cod Steak in the Oven with Broccoli
Ingredients
cod steaks - 400 g;
finely ground salt;
onion - two heads;
broccoli - 100 g;
half a lemon;
potatoes - 200 g;
spices for fish - 20 g;
olive oil - 50 ml;
nutmeg - 10 g;
30 g mayonnaise;
300 g cream of fatty.
Cooking method
1. Peel the carcass of chilled cod from the husk and wash it under running water. Separate the tail and head. Gut and rinse again. Cut the prepared carcass across the portioned steaks.
2. Season with salt, fish spices, black pepper and nutmeg. Lubricate the fish slices with olive oil.
3. Peel, wash, and cut the potatoes in circles. Cook until half cooked, lightly salting water. Rinse broccoli and disassemble into small inflorescences. Put them in a saucepan, pour boiling water and leave for five minutes. Then discard the broccoli in a colander. Cut the peeled onions into rings.
4. In a separate bowl, combine mayonnaise with cream and garlic squeezed through a press. Pepper, salt and mix well.
5. Lubricate the bottom of the mold with olive oil and put the potatoes boiled until half cooked in one layer. Spread the onion rings with the next layer. Pour over the sauce. Spread the cod steaks. Between them place broccoli inflorescences. Pour over the remaining sauce.
6. Send the cod form to the oven for half an hour. Bake at 160 degrees. Serve the finished fish with a side dish, pouring lemon juice on it.
Recipe 3. Cod steak in the oven with tomatoes
Ingredients
two small tomatoes;
cod - four large steaks;
freshly ground black pepper;
finely ground salt;
100 g mozzarella.
Cooking method
1. Wash cod steaks, dry with napkins and rub each with sea salt. We cut the foil into squares according to the number of steaks.
2. Put the steaks on the foil, cut into squares. Each piece of fish is covered with a slice of mozzarella. We wash the tomatoes, wipe with a towel and cut into circles. We lay them on top of the cheese. Wrap the fish in foil.
3. Put the parcels with cod on a baking sheet and set for 20 minutes in a preheated oven. Bake at 180 degrees.
Recipe 4. Fragrant cod steak in the oven
Ingredients
two onions;
cheese - 100 g;
potato chips - a small packet;
cod - four steaks;
turmeric - 3 g;
olive oil - 50 ml;
5 g of liquid honey;
half a lemon;
kitchen salt;
white wine - 100 ml;
spice mix for fish.
Cooking method
1. Thawed steaks, slightly dried. Mix spices for fish with salt and rub each piece with this mixture. We spray the cod with lemon juice.
2. Grind the peeled onion rings.
3. Cut the half of the lemon into circles, and then divide each half into quarters.
4. In a pan, heat the olive oil and fry the onion in it until soft. Add lemon, honey and wine, season with pepper and turmeric. Stir the mixture and simmer over low heat for about five minutes.
5. Place the steaks in the mold, greasing it with oil. Distribute the frying of onions and lemon over the surface of the fish. We put it in the oven for ten minutes and cook at 180 degrees.
6. We break potato chips, grind cheese. Combine the cheese with chips and mix.
7. Take out the form with fish, and sprinkle with the mixture. Bake for another ten minutes.
Recipe 5. Cod steak in the oven with potatoes
Ingredients
a kilogram of potatoes;
salt;
a handful of pitted olives;
freshly ground black pepper;
kg of cod steaks;
fresh basil - several branches;
red onion - three pcs.;
balsamic vinegar;
half a lemon;
olive oil.
Cooking method
1. Wash the potatoes thoroughly with a brush, peel and cut into large pieces. Boil the root crop until half ready, slightly salting the water. Throw it in a colander.
2. Peel the red onion and chop finely. Fry it in warmed olive oil until golden brown. Add chopped olives to the onion. Salt, pepper and pour balsamic vinegar. Then put the potatoes in this mixture and mix gently.
3. Grease a large heat-resistant form with oil and spread a mixture of onions and potatoes with an even layer on the bottom. Put cod steaks on top and season with salt, chopped basil and pepper.
4. Lightly sprinkle each steak with lemon juice squeezed from half a lemon. Bake for 25 minutes in a preheated oven.
Recipe 6. Cod steak in the oven with mushrooms
Ingredients
cod - two steaks;
lemon juice - 50 ml;
olive oil;
onion;
sea salt;
200 g of champignons;
100 g of hard cheese;
fresh tomato.
Cooking method
1. Rinse thawed cod steaks, slightly dry with a napkin. Pepper and salt on both sides. Sprinkle with lemon juice and leave for 15 minutes to marinate the fish.
2. Peel the onion from the husks and finely chopped. Remove the thin peel from the mushroom caps and rinse the mushrooms. We spread it on a towel and dry it. Cut them into thin slices. Fry the onion in olive oil until golden brown, add the mushrooms and continue to fry until half-cooked. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Grease two sheets of foil with olive oil and put on each a steak. On top of the fish, spread a thin layer of onion-mushroom fry, put tomato circles on it. Lightly salt and sprinkle with cheese chips.
4. Form a foil pouch. Pour into each a little juice that stood out when pickling. Put on a baking sheet and bake for half an hour at 200 degrees.
Recipe 7. Spicy Indian-style cod steak in the oven
Ingredients
two large cod steaks;
salt;
large orange;
butter - 50 g;
curry seasoning - 5 g;
fresh champignons - 100 g;
ground paprika - 3 g;
flour - 30 g.
Cooking method
1. Rinse and dry the steaks with a paper towel. In a separate bowl, mix the flour with ground paprika and curry. Rub the cod steaks with salt and roll in a spicy-flour mixture.
2. Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the steaks in it until golden brown.
3. Wash the orange, cut in half and squeeze the juice into a separate container.
4. Peel, rinse and grind the mushrooms with thin plates. Put the mushrooms in the pan where the fish was fried, and cook them until the excess liquid evaporates.
5. Place the fish in a deep shape. Put the fried mushrooms on top of the cod. Pour everything with orange juice and put in the oven for 20 minutes. Arrange the steaks on plates and pour the juice that remains in shape. Garnish with orange peel chips.
Salmon steak in the oven - tips and tricks
- Lemon juice will help get rid of a specific fishy smell. It is enough to sprinkle steaks on them and leave for a few minutes.
- Serve the fish immediately after cooking. The cooled cod loses its unique taste.
- To marinate cod, use a mixture of spices to cook fish.
- Cod will have a pleasant creamy taste if baked with cream or sour cream.
