Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- plate;
- a baking sheet;
- stewpan;
- cutting board;
- whisk;
- knife;
- bowl for marinade;
- steak dish;
- a tablespoon and a teaspoon;
- silicone brush;
- dishes for serving.
Ingredients
Product | amount |
salmon steaks | 1-1.1 kg |
vegetable oil | 4-5 Art. l |
lemon juice | 2.5 tbsp. l |
salt | 1.5 tsp |
ground white pepper | 1 tsp |
sweet paprika | ½ tsp |
cream 20% | 400 g |
butter | 60 g |
flour | 1 tbsp. l |
garlic | 2-3 cloves |
lemon zest | 1 tbsp. l |
Red caviar | 70 g |
greens (dill or parsley) | taste |
Step cooking
- To get started, prepare a marinade for fish. Pour 2 tbsp into a small bowl. l vegetable oil and 1 tbsp. l lemon juice. Add 1 tsp. salt and half a teaspoon of white pepper and sweet pepper. Mix everything well so that the salt is completely dissolved in lemon juice.
- Rinse and dry the fish steaks with paper towels. Cover the pan with parchment paper or foil. Use a silicone brush to brush the fish with marinade on all sides. Do this immediately on a baking sheet and lay the fish in rows in a row, skin down.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ºС and send your fish to bake for 20-25 minutes. The baking time depends on the thickness of the fish steaks. Ready fish should be slightly rosy, the main thing is not to dry it.
- While salmon is baked, prepare a creamy caviar sauce. Place the stewpan on the stove and pour in about 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil, add 60 g of butter and, while stirring with a whisk, lightly fry it over low heat.
- Peel 2-3 cloves of garlic and cut it into thin slices in a saucepan. Fry the garlic for one and a half minutes, stirring with a whisk. This time is enough for garlic to give the oil a pleasant aroma, but not have time to brown.
- After a minute and a half, remove the garlic from the oil.
- Pour into a stewpan 1 tbsp. l flour, and all the time, stirring with a whisk, fry the flour in oil for 30 seconds.
- Then slowly and gradually pour 400 g of cream into the stewpan, stir the mixture all the time with a whisk so that the sauce does not burn, and there are no lumps.
- After you have used all the cream, add half a teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of white pepper to the stewpan.
- Mix everything very fluidly, and at the same time pour 1 tsp into the stewpan. lemon juice, and add the zest of half a lemon. Try the sauce on the palate, but keep in mind: it should be slightly under-salted, as red caviar is quite salty.
- Bring the sauce to a boil, but do not boil, mix and add 70 g of red caviar.
- Once again, gently stir everything and remove the stewpan from the stove. If the fish is still in the oven, then cover the sauce with a lid.
- When ready, remove the fish from the oven, it should turn out to be very juicy and golden.
- Arrange the fish in a serving dish and pour it with a gentle creamy caviar sauce. You can spread salmon on salad leaves, garnishing with lemon slices on the side and sprinkle finely chopped greens over the sauce.
It can be served with mashed potatoes, rice, vegetable salad or as a separate dish. For this recipe, any oily fish is suitable - salmon, trout, salmon. If you want to cook a less fatty dish, use chum salmon or pink salmon.
Video recipe
How to cook the most delicate creamy caviar sauce, to what extent bake salmon, and how beautifully decorate the serving dish, you can watch the video.
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