Baked pink salmon with onions and carrots in the oven - tasty and juicy

Kitchen appliances and utensils: cooker or hob, gas or electric oven, cutting board, knife, frying pan, spatula, coarse grater, baking dish 25 × 25 cm, dinner plate.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. We take 1 carcass of pink salmon and separate the fillet along with the skin from the ridge and abdominal bones.
   
2. Lubricate the baking dish with 1 tbsp. l sunflower oil and put the fish fillet skin down into it in one layer.
   
3. Peel 2 onions from husks and cut them into small cubes. Peel 2 carrots from the peel and rub them on a coarse grater.
   
4. We put the pan on medium heat, pour 2 tbsp. l sunflower oil and heat it.
   
5. Pour the chopped onion into a frying pan with heated oil, mix it with a spatula and fry over medium heat, stirring occasionally until the onion becomes golden.
   
6. Add the grated carrots to the fried onion, mix them with a spatula and simmer the vegetables, stirring occasionally, until the carrots become soft.
   
7. We wash ½ bunch of dill under running cold water, slightly dry it and finely chop it with a knife. When the carrots become soft, sprinkle the vegetables with 2 pinches of salt, reduce the heat to a minimum, add 150-200 g of sour cream and chopped dill. Mix everything thoroughly with a spatula until smooth and leave it to simmer for 1-2 minutes on a small fire, after which we remove the prepared vegetables from the heat and allow them to cool slightly.
   
8. Turn on the oven at 180 ° C and leave to warm. Sprinkle the fillet in the form with 2 pinches of ground white pepper, then spread the stewed vegetables with sour cream on top, trying to evenly distribute them on all surfaces of the fish.
   
9. We put the form with pink salmon under the vegetable "coat" in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.
   
10. After 15-20 minutes, we take out the finished dish from the oven, leave it to stand for a while, then cut into portions, put it on the dinner plate to the side dish and serve it on the table.
    

Important! To make the pink salmon baked under a “fur coat” more fragrant, 0.5 tsp can be added to sour cream. curry, and season the fillet not only with white ground pepper, but also with a pinch of basil or marjoram.

Video recipe

If you need to clarify what a fish fillet prepared for baking looks like or the process of laying a layer of vegetables on pink salmon, it is worth clarifying such nuances by looking at a small video recipe.

This recipe for baked fish is very undemanding to the ingredients, but the result is a hearty and flavorful dish. Those who want to reduce the number of calories should replace sour cream with natural yogurt, this will not affect the taste of pink salmon under a "coat" of vegetables.

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