Creamy salmon is more a festive dish than an everyday one. However, to please their loved ones in the middle of the week on the most ordinary day is much easier than it might seem.
Preparing salmon is quick and easy. The ingredients that make up the dish are available, except perhaps for the salmon itself.
But occasionally treat yourself and your family with a healthy and incredibly tasty dish is not only possible, but even necessary.
Creamy salmon - general cooking principles
Without a doubt, salmon, like any other marine life, contains a lot of beneficial substances, But that is not all. In its composition a large amount of melanin, which favorably affects the cells of the body, providing a rejuvenating effect. Therefore, this fish must be included in the human diet.
To prepare salmon in cream, you can purchase both whole fish, and its loin portion or steaks. Prices are about the same, but the benefits of chopped fish are undeniable. There is no need to bother removing skin, cutting fins and removing bones.
Cream salmon can be cooked without any additives as the basis for side dishes such as rice, potatoes, peas, vegetables. Also, when cooking, you can add additional ingredients, for example, pasta, mushrooms, seafood, vegetables, and get a completely independent dish. It all depends on your taste preferences.
In addition to salt and pepper, you can add spices to the salmon with cream, such as garlic, hot and sweet peppers, marjoram, dill, cayenne pepper, rosemary. All of them are perfectly combined with fish and complement the dish with their aroma.
Decorate the finished fish with sprigs of greens: parsley, rosemary, dill; olives, olives, red caviar.
Recipe 1. Salmon in cream
Perhaps the easiest creamy salmon recipe. Minimum time - maximum taste and benefit.
Ingredients:
• four salmon steaks (about 500-600 grams);
• 200 ml cream;
• 130 ml of water;
• spices;
• half a lemon;
• salt pepper;
• 20 ml of olive oil;
• two to three sprigs of parsley and rosemary.
Cooking method:
1. We wash the salmon, dry it with a paper towel and rub it with salt, sprinkle with pepper.
2. Lemon cut into slices, rub them with a fish.
3. Pour oil into the pan, fry the steaks on both sides for two minutes until a slight blush.
4. In a bowl, mix water with cream. Add, if desired, a pinch of curry, cayenne pepper, marjoram.
5. Slightly fried salmon steaks put in a heat-resistant form, pour the aromatic creamy mixture.
6. Bake at 240-250 degrees for just ten minutes.
7. Put the steaks on plates, pour cream, decorate with sprigs of fresh herbs.
Recipe 2. Salmon in cream with tomatoes and cheese
The divine aroma and taste of salmon in cream under a cloud of tomatoes and cheese will not leave indifferent even the most fastidious gourmet.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of salmon;
• two large meaty tomatoes;
• half a can of pitted olives;
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• parsley leaves;
• 100 ml cream;
• salt;
• spices (a mixture of peppers, marjoram and others to taste);
• some vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking method:
1. We cut the fish: remove the skin, cut the fins, remove the bones.
2. Sprinkle the resulting fillet with salt, temporarily set aside.
3. In the cream pour spices, chopped olives and chopped parsley.
4. Put the fillet in a tin, fill it with prepared cream.
5. On top of the salmon, put the tomatoes sliced in thin circles, sprinkle everything with grated cheese.
6. Bake for 20-30 minutes, the cheese crust should acquire a pleasant golden color.
3. Salmon in cream with mushrooms
There is no lemon in the recipe, but if you want to give the dish a tender citrus acidity, you can pour a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice or grate the zest in the cream sauce prepared.
Ingredients:
• a pound of salmon fillet;
• one onion;
• 200 grams of champignons;
• 220 ml cream;
• salt;
• spices;
• leaves of dill and parsley;
• 30 grams of flour;
• 20 ml of cooking oil.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the champignons, put them on a towel and dry them.
2. Cut the mushrooms into plates.
3. Rinse the dill, tear off the twigs and throw them away or leave to prepare another dish, chop the leaves.
4. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
5. Heat the oil in a frying pan, fry the onion on it, add the mushrooms, fry for 8-10 minutes on medium heat until blush.
6. Pour flour to the fried ingredients, mix.
7. Pour cream warmed up to room temperature, add salt and spices. Stir until thickened sauce, this process does not take more than 7-8 minutes.
8. Remove the pan with mushrooms and cream from the fire, put the chopped parsley into it, mix and remove for a while to the side.
9. We washed and dried salmon fillet lay on a baking sheet, pour the sauce. Cook for 20-25 minutes.
4. Salmon in cream with vegetables
A hearty meal that does not require a side dish. Mushrooms in salmon with cream, if desired, can not be added.
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of salmon fillet;
• 400 grams of potato;
• one onion;
• one lemon;
• vegetable oil;
• spices, salt;
• bell pepper;
• 150-200 grams of champignons;
• 15 grams of flour;
• 160 ml cream;
• greenery;
• 30-40 grams of butter.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the potatoes and, cutting into small bars, boil in slightly salted water until half ready. We drain the water.
2. Mushrooms and onions are chopped into cubes. Fry for five to seven minutes in oil until golden.
3. Mix potatoes with fry, spread evenly in a baking dish.
4. We wash the pepper, cut into two parts, remove the middle and cut into cubes. Spread on top of the potatoes.
5. The next layer put the salmon, cut into medium pieces. Pre rub the fish with spices and sprinkle with lemon juice.
6. In a small container, prepare the cream fill. Grind greens, mix with melted butter. Pour the flour, mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps left. Slowly pour the cream. Bring the sauce to a boil, fill them with the prepared ingredients in the form.
7. Cook the salmon in cream in the oven for about half an hour.
5. Salmon in cream with pasta
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of pasta;
• 250-280 grams of salmon fillet;
• 220 ml cream;
• a couple of branches of dill;
• spices, salt;
• clove of garlic;
• 20 ml of olive oil;
• 60 grams of parmesan.
Cooking method:
1. Boil pasta, recline in a colander.
2. Cut the fillet into cubes two centimeters wide.
3. Heat the butter in a frying pan, spread the garlic, sliced in slices. Fry it literally 15-20 seconds and immediately add the pieces of fish. Stir, fry for a couple of minutes.
4. Pour the cream, put the grated Parmesan and chopped dill. Add salt and spices to taste.
5. Tomim all the ingredients in the pan for about five minutes, after which we add the pasta. Mix thoroughly, cover the pan with a lid, turn off the gas.
6. Insist salmon in cream with pasta for five to ten minutes, serve.
6. Salmon cream with shrimp
To prepare this dish you will need a form with high sides. If not available, you can simply reduce the amount of ingredients.
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of salmon;
• 230 grams of peeled shrimp;
• large carrots;
• onion;
• salt and spices;
• five cloves of garlic;
• Bell pepper;
• 400 ml cream;
• 40 grams of flour;
• 25 grams of butter.
Cooking method:
1. Put in the mold a carrot cut into thin strips.
2. The next layer put the chopped onion.
3. On top of the onion, spread the salmon, cut into pieces.
4. Put shrimp on the fish (shrimp should not be frozen).
5. In a small saucepan, heat the cream, add the butter, chopped pepper, salt and spices. Pour the flour. Stirring, bring the sauce to thicken over low heat.
6. Pour seafood sauce. Bake at 200 degrees for twenty minutes.
7. Salmon cream with spinach
An original dish that is perfect for both a regular and a dietary table.
Ingredients:
• six salmon steaks;
• 130 ml of 15% cream;
• ground pepper;
• one large lemon;
• salt;
• 200 grams of fresh spinach.
Cooking method:
1. My steaks are dried.
2. Rinse the spinach, fold it into a colander, chop finely.
3. Wash the lemon, slightly scrape off the skin and cut into circles.
4. Cover the baking sheet with foil, put twelve circles of lemon in two rows.
5. We spread each steak on two lemons, slightly add salt to the fish, and pour pepper to taste.
6. Carefully spread the chopped spinach on the salmon, slightly pressing the greens.
7. Directly pour spinach on two three tablespoons of cream.
8. Bake for twenty minutes.
8. Salmon in cream with red caviar
Ingredients:
• 180 grams of salmon fillet;
• a small bunch of dill;
• salt pepper;
• two slices of 30 gram butter;
• two to three tablespoons of lemon juice;
• half of the bulb;
• vegetable oil;
• 30 ml of white wine (dry);
• 80 ml of heavy cream;
• Bay leaf;
• 20-30 grams of red caviar.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the fillet in portions, grease with vegetable oil, sprinkle with pepper, chopped dill and salt. Sprinkle with lemon juice, set aside for half an hour to the side.
2. Cut the onions and fry in butter, adding bay leaf for flavor.
3. Pour the wine, simmer until the liquid evaporates completely.
4. Pour in the cream, add more butter, simmer for five minutes.
5. Cool the cream sauce, add the caviar, mix.
6. Put the steaks on a greased baking sheet, bake for ten minutes.
7. Put the prepared salmon in plates, pour sauce with cream and red caviar.
Creamy salmon - useful tips and tricks
• For cooking salmon in cream, be sure to choose a cream with a high fat content, so the dish will turn out to be much more tender and tasty.
• Almost every recipe involves pre-marinating fish in spices and lemon juice. Squeezing the juice from citruses will not be difficult if the fruit is slightly rolled on the table, pressing his palm.
• Salmon cooks quickly, so there is no need to increase the cooking time.
• Used spices such as peppers are best grinded in a mortar. Powder spices do not give such a rich aroma.
• Fish living in their natural habitat are much more useful than their counterparts who lived in artificial reservoirs.
