Not a single festive table is complete without fish. Hot dishes can be made from it, but cold snacks are especially good. They help to diversify the menu and beckon with their aroma. Who will refuse Jewish forshmak, an economical sandwich or a fragrant tartlet with salmon? There are no such!
Fish snacks - general cooking principles
For snacks, you can use salted, smoked, fresh, canned fish of any kind. But a lot depends on the recipe. For festive tables, red fish or herring is usually used. The daily menu often uses canned food, more affordable varieties of fish, but salted herring and mackerel are also very popular.
What fish is combined with:
• fresh vegetables of all kinds;
• cheese, butter, eggs;
• apples, lemons;
• mayonnaise, sour cream.
All snacks can be divided into three groups: crushed masses (for sandwiches, toppings), salads and lumpy dishes. Most of them are served cold, but there are also warm options, for example, fish in batter, below there is a very good recipe.
Fake caviar herring fish appetizer
This fish snack will find a place not only on the festive table, but also on the usual dining room. Who would have thought that such an amazing dish could be prepared from an ordinary herring. Typically, the mass is used for sandwiches or for filling tartlets.
Ingredients
• 2 herring fillets;
• two processed cheeses;
• boiled carrots;
• 100 g of oil.
Cooking
1. Take a large herring and divide into two fillets. We select all large and noticeable bones. Very small can not be removed, after grinding they will be imperceptible. Cut the fillet into slices.
2. Peel a large boiled carrot. But you can use two small root crops. Cut into pieces.
3. Twist the carrot and herring through the meat grinder. Some people prefer to use a combine or grind the pieces with a blender. But in this case, you get pasta, it’s better not to do that. After the meat grinder, it is the grains.
4. Grate processed cheese, transfer to a herring.
5. Add softened butter. Stir well.
6. We will try. If there is little salt in the herring, then add. If desired, pepper.
7. Spread the cooked mass on fresh bread or on toasted toasts. Dill will be an ideal complement to taste.
Quick salmon tartlets with salmon
If there is no salmon, then for the preparation of such a fish snack, you can safely take another red fish. Tartlets are used small purchased.
Ingredients
• 100 g of soft cream cheese;
• 100 g of oil;
• 120 g of fish;
• 5 branches of dill;
• tartlets;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 0.5 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Combine cheese with softened butter. If you use only oil, it will turn out bold. You can take any soft cheese from the baths, but it is better to choose neutral tastes that will not interrupt the aroma of red fish.
2. Add a little garlic to the cheese mass, half a clove is enough. It will give its light aroma, but will not be felt.
3. Cut a couple of sprigs of dill and add to the mass, stir, salt to taste.
4. Put the resulting cheese cream into tartlets. You can use the bag and squeeze through it. We fill almost to the top.
5. Cut the fish into thin strips, we calculate so that it turns out according to the number of tartlets.
6. Squeeze the juice from the lemon. Water the slices, gently stir.
7. Turn each strip into a roll to make a rose, but not tight.
8. We shift to the tartlet.
9. Inside the bud we stick a small sprig of dill.
Fish appetizer "He"
Korean version of a very popular and world famous fish snack. For cooking in this recipe, silver carp is used. But you can take any other species at your discretion. A prerequisite is high quality and freshness, since the fish is not subjected to heat treatment.
Ingredients
• 350 g silver carp;
• 100 g of onion;
• large carrot;
• three tablespoons of vinegar;
• clove of garlic;
• greenery;
• 40 ml of oil.
From spices you need a leaf of laurel, coriander, black pepper and half a teaspoon of salt.
Cooking
1. Rinse the silver carp fillet, cut into thin slices or straws, as you like more. Fold in a bowl.
2. Cut the onion into half rings. Transfer to silver carp.
3. Add three full tablespoons of vinegar. You can not reduce the number, the fish must be marinated. To salt. Half a teaspoon is enough for this amount of silver carp. After adding vegetables, you can add it to your liking.
4. Stir onion with fish so that the vinegar is evenly distributed, crush, cover, leave for a couple of hours.
5. Grate the carrots coarsely. Better to use a grater for Korean snacks.
6. Pour the recipe oil into a skillet, heat it, add carrots and fry over high heat for no more than a minute, stir.
7. Add ginger, throw a few crushed peas of black pepper, quickly stir and transfer in a bowl to the silver carp.
8. Now we stir the appetizer again. We throw a bay leaf, cover. Keep the hour warm and put in the refrigerator for a day.
9. When serving in heh, you can add any greens, for example, dill or feather onions.
Jewish Fish Appetizer or Forshmak
The peculiarity of this fish snack is not only wonderful taste, but also profitability. No wonder the Jews came up with it. If the herring is salted, then pre-soak the slices in milk.
Ingredients
• one herring;
• a large sour apple;
• 4 grams of ginger;
• one egg (boil);
• a spoon of lemon juice;
• one onion;
• greenery;
• 0.5 packs of oil.
Cooking
1. Disassemble the herring into two fillets, remove the visible bones, cut into slices and transfer to a bowl from the blender.
2. Peel one large apple. Or we take two small apples for forshmak. Cut into pieces. We shift to herring.
3. The egg is cleaned and added to the total mass.
4. Cut the onion head. This is an optional ingredient. You can cook mincemeat without onions. We ship to other products.
5. Spread the butter.
6. Beat everything with a blender. You can use a meat grinder for cooking mincemeat. But in this case, all the ingredients are passed through a fine mesh at least twice.
7. Add lemon juice to the mincemeat. We try, pepper to taste. We spread it on a dish with greens or simply serve in a bowl to pieces of fresh bread or to rosy toasts.
Cucumber fish appetizer
A variant of very interesting, juicy and easy to prepare red fish sandwiches. Instead, you can use toast or bread instead of regular bread. In dietary options, instead of bread, just a cucumber is used, cut by thick plates.
Ingredients
• bread;
• fresh cucumbers;
• mayonnaise;
• a little butter;
• soft cream cheese;
• red salted fish.
Cooking
1. Cut the cucumbers into long plates. Choose vegetables that do not have large and hard seeds.
2. Cut the bread into thin and long slices. Grease with butter, but thinly.
3. Lay out strips of cucumber on bread.
4. Cut the fish into thin slices and put on top of the cucumber.
5. Mix the cream cheese with mayonnaise to make the mass look like cream. Transfer to a pastry bag, decorate the sandwich on top. You can squeeze patterns on the fish or fill the voids on the cucumber.
Fish batter in batter
A variant of a delicious fish appetizer, which is cooked with frying. Batter in whole milk with an egg.
Ingredients
• 300 g fillet of any fish;
• 2 eggs;
• 200 g of milk;
• flour;
• spices;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Cut fish into cubes, sprinkle with spices. You can sprinkle with lemon juice. Tasty with soy sauce. Stir, leave to marinate.
2. For now, prepare a simple batter. Beat eggs, pour in milk, salt. Add the flour. If you want to fry the fish in a thin batter, then make the liquid batter a little thicker than the pancake dough. For a magnificent batter of flour, add more. We make the density of the dough for fritters.
3. Heat the oil on the stove, a layer of at least a centimeter. In this case, the pieces will float freely, the fish will be baked.
4. Dip the pieces of fish into the dough, put them in the heated oil, fry until golden brown.
Canned saury fish appetizer
Surprisingly delicious snack, which is prepared in ten minutes, if boiled eggs are already there. It can be used as a filling, spreading, and for other purposes. Instead of saury, you can use pink salmon, mackerel and other fish.
Ingredients
• a bank of saury or other fish;
• 2-3 eggs;
• 1 onion head;
• 20 g of oil.
Cooking
1. Quickly chop the onion head, add it to the heated oil and fry for 5 minutes until it is rosy.
2. Put the pieces of saury in a blender, pulling out large spinal bones.
3. Cut the boiled eggs into several parts and also toss.
4. By this time, the bow arrived. Add and whip all together.
5. We taste, season with spices. If the mass is thick, then add a little liquid from a jar of fish or put mayonnaise.
Fish Snacks - Tips & Tricks
• The salted herring will again become tender and pleasant to taste if you soak the cut fillet or pieces in raw milk. You can replace it with black tea, but only with cold. In a hot liquid, the fish will go bad.
• Does the smell of fish not leave your hands? You can rub them with a lemon peel. It will also help to remove the corrosive aroma from a cutting board, knife and other utensils.
• Caviar, which is often found in herring, can also be used in fish snacks. Some housewives add milk to the mincemeat and sandwich pastes, which can be done.
