How to learn how to cook a delicious hake in the oven according to a step-by-step recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• cutting board;
• knife;
• oven.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Remove the hack carcass from the freezer before defrosting. To clear the fish of scales and with kitchen scissors cut off all the fins on the back and along the abdomen. It is best to clean the hake when it has not yet fully thawed.
   
2. Cut the abdomen, remove the remains of the insides and completely clean the inside of the black film. If left, the fish will be bitter. If possible, try to take out most of the ridge. It consists almost entirely of cartilage, so this will be easy to do.
   
3. Cover the rectangular baking dish with foil, matte side to the bottom.
   
4. Lay the fish on the form, salt well on all sides and inside the belly.
   
5. Break a few bay leaves with your hands and put a piece inside each fish, and several pieces into a mold. Wash the lemon, cut in half and cut into slices 2-4 mm thick. If you do not like lemon bitterness, it can be slightly scalded with boiling water. Spread lemon slices next to the fish and shove a piece inward.
   
6. Leek or onion cut into thin rings and randomly spread out in shape.
   
7. Sprinkle everything with ground black pepper, dry garlic, and lightly sprinkle with vegetable oil.
   
8. Wrap the edges of the foil inward so that the contents of the form are completely closed. Preheat the oven at 220 ° and put the fish to bake for 25 - 30 minutes. 7 to 10 minutes before the end of baking, the foil can be expanded and the fish slightly browned.
   
9. After removing the mold from the oven, unfold the foil and let the fish cool slightly. Similarly, you can bake hake carcasses not in whole, but in batches. To do this, cut the finished peeled carcass into portions and put each on a separate piece of foil. Follow all the steps of the recipe with each individual piece, and wrap in foil. The baking time of the hake in the portioned version can be reduced by 5 to 10 minutes.
   

If desired, before baking the fish, it can be slightly fried in a pan. To do this, heat the pan with vegetable oil and fry the fish over high heat. It will be enough for 2 - 2.5 minutes on each side to form a golden crust. Before frying, the fish should be marinated in a mixture of salt and ground pepper so that it does not stick to the pan and does not fall apart.

Important! Hake meat cooks fast enough. Therefore, if you decide to bake it with vegetables, choose those vegetables that are not cooked very long.

Video recipe

How to properly carve the hack carcass and prepare it for baking is clearly shown in the video recipe.

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