Juicy pollock in sour cream, baked in the oven - a very easy recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove (hob), oven, frying pan, baking sheet or baking dish, coarse grater, cutting board, knife, bowl, tablespoon, fork, silicone spatula.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Defrost the fish (500 g), clean from the entrails, rinse, cut the fins and tail, cut into 3-4 parts each. Put on a baking sheet or in a baking dish.
   
2. Peel and wash onions and carrots. Cut the onion into small cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
   
3. Pour 2-3 tbsp into the pan. l vegetable oil, warm up. Put onions and carrots and sauté until soft for 5-7 minutes, remembering to stir, so as not to burn.
   
4. For sour cream sauce in a bowl, thoroughly mix to a homogeneous state 250 g of sour cream (any fat content), 100 ml of milk, spices - suneli hop, seasoning for fish, black pepper - and salt to taste.
   
5. Spread onions and carrots evenly on a baking sheet (form) with fish, then pour on top of sour cream sauce and put in the oven for 30 minutes.
   
6. Arrange the finished pollock on plates with baked sauce. If you will serve this fish to the table hot, you can garnish it with mashed potatoes or boiled brown rice, and if cold, combine it with fresh vegetables or salad. Such baked fish is tasty both hot and cold.
   

Did you know?

• To enrich the taste of pollock, sprinkle the finished fish with lemon juice, spicy spicy sauce or sprinkle with spices.
• Pollock can be cooked in a variety of ways: bake in foil, stew in various sauces, fry in breading or batter. The main thing is to add spices so that the taste of the fish does not seem fresh.
• Fresh pollock has a faint, slightly sweet smell. If the fish was not stored properly, it was frozen and thawed several times, the smell becomes strong and very unpleasant.
• Pollock in the North Pacific Ocean is caught by Japan, China and Russia. A Japanese-made product is rare in our market, and Russian producers supply fish with a carcass length of more than 20 cm.
• Unscrupulous sellers sometimes give tilapia or pangasius fillets for pollock fillets. This is a fish of a lower category, because it lives closer to the bottom and feeds on garbage. Only a certificate of quality will help to figure this out.

Video recipe

How to bake pollock in sour cream gravy, the video recipe will tell. You will understand how to cut fish into portions, and to what extent fry onions and carrots, learn how to prepare sour cream sauce for pouring, and how long to keep the dish in the oven, see how and with what to serve fish in portions.

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