Sea hare - fish from the Pacific Ocean

Sea fish have long been valued by the culinary specialists of European countries, as it is endowed with easily digestible protein, vitamins E, A and D, micro- and macro elements and fatty acids, capable of lowering the level of cholesterol in the blood. The sea hare - a fish up to two meters long, with dense white meat and valuable fat, used in medicine, is very popular with it.

Most often in supermarkets you can meet this product in frozen form, while in case of repeated freezing the fish loses its nutritional properties and taste qualities. Therefore, when buying a sea hare, you should not take fillets, it is better to have a whole carcass, the cutting of which does not take much time. In this case, the eyes of the fish should be shiny and transparent, and the gills - red and completely closed.

Due to the fact that the sea hare (fish is also found in fresh water bodies) has not only high nutritional, but also healing properties, it is a valuable product in cooking, so today there are a large number of recipes for its preparation. Consider those that are most often used in kitchens of different countries.

1. Baked harefish (recipe of Russian cuisine)

Ingredients: half a kilo of fish, two tablespoons of olive oil, one spoonful of curry, one carrot, one cucumber, fifty grams of olives and olives, two radishes, greens, salt and spices.

Cleaned and gutted fish should be rubbed with a mixture of salt, curry and butter, put on cooked foil and bake in the oven at a high temperature for half an hour. The ready-made sea hare is taken out and covered with foil in order for it to reach.

Meanwhile, carrots cut out spirals, from radish and cucumbers - buds, olives cut into rings. Fish should be laid out on a large dish, decorated with olives, carrot spirals, cucumber and radish flowers, as well as twigs of greens.

2. Sea hare - fish in sauce

Ingredients: a kilogram of fish, one glass of pomegranate juice and broth, one large onion, four cloves of garlic, one paprika, one spoon of tomato paste, half a glass of nuts, vegetable oil, salt, spices and flour.

Fish are cleaned, washed and dried, then cut into small pieces, crumbled in flour and fried. Crushed nuts, chopped onions, paprika, garlic, tomato paste, broth and pomegranate juice are mixed and put on fire to boil. When the sauce boils, add a sea hare and stew for ten minutes. As a side dish to this dish rice fits perfectly.

3. Sea hare - fish in pots

Ingredients: two fish steaks, two onions, two potatoes, one carrot, one bunch of green onions, parsley and dill, one hundred grams of cheese, fifty grams of butter, one spoon of oyster sauce, forty grams of olive oil, half a lemon, salt and ground pepper.

With the steaks you need to cut the backbone and bones and cut them into small squares. Carrots and onions are cut into very small cubes, all the greens are folded into a bunch and cut by half, while the bottom is chopped and mixed with onion, sprinkling with half-lemon juice. Cheese is cut into cubes.

Now you need to prepare the gas station. To do this, pour olive oil and sauce into the dishes, add pepper and leave for a few minutes.

In the pots put the fish, for it - a few slices of cheese, seven peppercorns, top is laid half of sliced onions and greens, carrots, potatoes, butter, then - the remaining cheese, and all this is poured in a prepared dressing and put in the oven.

Remember that the sea hare (fish, the recipe of which we already know) has not only excellent taste qualities, but also great value, as it helps to prevent the development of many diseases.