Fish from the salmon family - chum salmon - is considered to be a delicacy. The composition of chum salmon contains many useful substances, vitamins, and also omega-3 acids, as in other red fish.
Due to its low fat content, chum salmon dishes are ideal for diet and children's meals. Despite the high cost of the product, you should at least occasionally indulge yourself with delicious fish dishes. For example, steaks from chum salmon, the recipes of which we will tell today.
Chum salmon steak in the oven - general principles
In order for the dish to succeed, it is important to take the selection and preparation of fish seriously. You can buy both carcass of chum salmon and ready-made steaks. The main thing is that they should be of the appropriate color and smell without any signs of damage. Frozen fish should be covered with a thin layer of transparent ice, but in no case with a snow coat, which means that the fish has been repeatedly thawed and re-frozen, which, accordingly, killed the benefits and taste of chum.
Chum salmon is unsuitable for frying fish, so we will cook it in the oven. The selected fish is thawed, gutted, cut with steaks. After sprinkled with salt, spices, chopped herbs, sprinkled with oil, lemon juice - this is a classic that can be adapted to any other recipe.
To enhance the taste and to give satiety, steaks of chum salmon are prepared with vegetables or various fillings. It goes well with fish onions, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes, cream, sour cream. Vegetables can be laid out underneath the fish or on top of the steaks. Also, chum salmon can be coated with sauce, mayonnaise, and covered with cheese. The choice is yours, no matter which recipe you choose, the result will please you!
1. Chum salmon steak in the oven
Ingredients:
• 1 medium size chum;
• onion - 3 heads;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 lemon;
• a small amount of olive oil;
• a pinch of salt and black pepper;
• dill - 2 bouquets.
Cooking method:
1. Ketu clean from scales, gut, rinse, cut into medium-thick steaks.
2. Squeeze a lemon into a small cup, add olive oil to the juice, add a little salt, pepper and seasoning for the fish, mix everything thoroughly.
3. Rinse dill, finely chop, pour into a cup with lemon juice.
4. Coat the pieces of fish with the prepared marinade, leave for 30-40 minutes to be nourished.
5. Cut the peeled onions into strips, washed tomatoes - in circles.
6. Place the pickled fish pieces on a greased baking tray, spread the onion and tomato mugs on top of the fish.
7. Put the leaf in a hot oven and bake a little less than half an hour.
8. When serving, put pieces of fish on a portioned dish, put baked onions with tomatoes around, sprinkle with chopped dill.
2. Baked chum salmon steak in the oven
Ingredients:
• 1 chum salmon small;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• half a lemon;
• salt, fish seasoning, black pepper - 1 teaspoon each;
• parsley, dill - several branches.
Cooking method:
1. Gut the ketu, rinse, clean from scales, cut into steaks.
2. Grate all the pieces well with salt, pepper, seasoning and put in a bowl, sprinkle with chopped herbs and leave for several minutes.
3. Cut the half of the lemon into circles.
4. Put the pickled pieces in the baking sleeve along with the lemon mugs, add a small amount of sunflower oil, tightly tie the sleeve with thread, shake.
5. Put the sleeve with the fish on a baking sheet, flatten.
6. Put the frying sheet in the oven and bake for half an hour.
7. Remove the baked chum salmon pieces from the sleeve, put on a flat plate, place the lemon slices and parsley leaves around the fish nicely.
3. Chum salmon steak in the oven in foil
Ingredients:
• 1 big chum salmon;
• salt, black pepper powder, fish seasoning - 10 g each;
• a couple of large fleshy tomatoes;
• 1 lemon;
• parsley or dill - half a bunch.
Cooking method:
1. From the gutted, washed chum salmon, cut a ridge, cut the fillet into portion pieces of equal size.
2. Tomatoes and lemon cut into circles.
3. Cut the foil into small cubes, put one fish steak on each one, top with a circle of tomato and lemon, add a little salt, sprinkle with seasoning and pepper, wrap tightly.
4. Put the steaks wrapped in foil on a sheet and put in a red-hot oven, bake a little less than half an hour.
5. Serve on portioned plates, previously freed from foil, together with tomatoes and lemon, garnish with greens.
4. Chum salmon steak with potatoes in the oven
Ingredients:
• half of the great chum;
• potatoes - 5 small tubers;
• 3 onions;
• 3 tomatoes;
• a small piece of Dutch cheese;
• a small amount of sunflower oil;
• some mayonnaise;
• a little salt, black pepper, dry basil.
Cooking method:
1. Wash the prepared chum salmon under running cold water, put on paper towels and dry, cut into medium-sized steaks.
2. Cut the peeled onions into thin strips, peel the potatoes, wash, cut into medium cubes, cut the washed tomatoes in circles, and grate the cheese.
3. Put chum salmon steaks in salted foil and oiled deep baking dish, salt, sprinkle with basil and grated cheese.
4. Put a thin layer of onions, potatoes on the steaks, sprinkle with cheese.
5. Put tomatoes in the last layer, add salt, sprinkle with basil, cover everything with the edges of the foil.
6. Put the mold in the oven warmed up to 220 degrees and bake a little more than half an hour.
7. In a small cup, mix the remaining grated cheese with mayonnaise and basil.
8. A few minutes before the end of baking, open the oven, expand the edges of the foil, grease the contents with a mixture of mayonnaise with cheese and basil and put back into the oven for a few more minutes.
9. When serving, put the steaks on plates with potatoes, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
5. Chum salmon steak in cream oven
Ingredients:
• small chum salmon;
• one large carrot and one onion;
• flour - half a glass;
• nonfat cream - 125 g;
• some salt and black pepper powder.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the vegetables, cut the carrots into thin strips, cut the onion into strips.
2. Cut the prepared chum salmon into steaks, dry them a little on paper towels.
3. Steak a little salt and roll in flour.
4. Put the carrots in a deep pan, pour vegetable oil.
5. Put chopped onions on a carrot, and chum salmon steaks on it.
6. Pour all the cream.
7. Place the pan in a hot oven for half an hour.
8. During baking, constantly make sure that the cream does not run out of the edges of the pan.
9. When serving, put on the plate one steak per serving with vegetables, you can put mashed potatoes next to it.
6. Dietary chum salmon steak in the oven
Ingredients:
• 10 chum salmon steaks;
• low fat cream - half a glass;
• bell pepper - 2 pieces;
• small zucchini;
• a small piece of Dutch cheese;
• onion head;
• one lemon;
• half the head of garlic;
• seasoning, salt - 20 g each
Cooking method:
1. Portion slices of chum salmon, grate salt, seasoning, leave in a cup for 30 minutes. If they are frozen, then first you will need to defrost.
2. Peel the zucchini, take out the seeds, cut the pulp into thin strips.
3. Cut the peeled onions into strips, lemon slices.
4. Cut the stem with the seeds from the pepper, cut the pepper into strips.
5. In a clean bowl, mix the cream with chopped garlic and grated cheese.
6. In a deep baking dish, put the chum salmon steaks, lemon slices, straws of onion, sweet pepper and zucchini on them.
7. Pour the entire contents with creamy gravy, put in a hot oven for 45 minutes.
8. Serve on portioned plates, watering the sauce, sprinkling with herbs.
7. Chum salmon steak in the oven with sesame seeds and herbs
Ingredients:
• kilogram of steak;
• half a glass of sesame;
• spices;
• salt;
• lemon;
• vegetable oil;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse and dry the steaks. Sprinkle with lemon juice, set aside for half an hour.
2. Cut the foil into squares, grease each with oil. Put chum on a stack on each piece.
3. In a bowl mix finely grated cheese, 50-60 g mayonnaise, sesame seeds. The mass should be thick.
4. Lubricate sesame mixture with plenty of fish.
5. Wrap the foil, transfer everything to a baking sheet, bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Chum salmon steak in the oven - secrets and tricks
• It is better to defrost fish in the refrigerator to preserve all the beneficial properties. "Rough" defrosting in a microwave or warm water "kills" not only good, but also taste and aroma.
• To prevent plowing after cutting the fish, pre-treat it with lemon juice or simply put it in a plastic bag.
• If you do not use additional ingredients, such as vegetables or cheese, be sure to marinate the fish in lemon juice, a small amount of spices, so the steaks will turn out delicious.
• Mayonnaise steaks will make a sauce of mayonnaise and grated cheese or a vegetable pillow.
• When cooking chum salmon steaks, it is advisable not to leave the oven for a long time. Due to its high water content and minimal fat content, this fish species is easy to dry. The same vegetable pillow or grated cheese will help to avoid such an incident.
• It is not advisable to simply fry the fish, the juiciness and tenderness of chum salmon can be preserved by stewing it in sauce or baking in foil in the sleeve.
• No less delicious is the chum salmon steak in batter. For batter, just mix the egg, cream and a little flour.
• Grilled or vegetable side dishes are mainly served to chum salmon steak. Especially good with fish is combined rice, potatoes. No less delicious will be a duet of baked chum salmon and fresh vegetables: sweet pepper, tomato, cucumbers.
