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Whole baked fish in the oven
An excellent way to prepare fish is to bake it whole in the oven uncovered. No foil or baking sleeve is needed. It is advisable to use a deep baking tray or a deep cast-iron skillet. The recipe for baking spicy fish in the oven is very simple, and the fish turns out juicy, with a crispy crust and very tasty.
Ingredients
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We lay out the products needed for baking the fish in the oven whole. For this recipe, you can use a small pike perch, carp, or crucian carp. If the fish is larger than specified in the recipe, the baking time should be increased.
- crucian carp - 1 piece (0.5 kg);
- fish spice - 1 tbsp (10 g);
- sunflower oil - 2 tbsp (34 g);
- sesame - 1 tsp (5 g);
- breadcrumb - 2 tbsp (30 g);
- garlic - 3 cloves (15 g);
- onion - 1 piece (100 g).
Preparation
- Remove all scales from the fish. Pay attention to areas under the fins and gill covers where scales might be missed. By the way, remove the gills right away so you don't forget, and leave the head. The whole baked fish looks nicer with it and won't dry out as quickly in the oven. Carefully cut open the belly to remove the insides. Be sure to remove the dark skin inside the belly cut. If this skin is left, it gives an unpleasant bitterness. In this recipe, we will be cooking crucian carp. This fish is popular due to its low price and sweet meat. The only downside of this fish is that it has numerous small and very sharp bones. To slightly soften the sharpness of these bones, make cuts on the sides of the crucian carp with a sharp knife at intervals of at least 1 cm. By cutting the small bones in this way, we will partially eliminate this unpleasant factor. The bones become less sharp.
- To eliminate the smell of mud from the crucian carp, we marinate it with fish spice. We sprinkle the fish inside and out with salt and fish spice. We also rub the spice into the cuts on the sides of the fish.
- Inside the belly, we put in peeled garlic cloves. If the fish had roe during preparation, we rinse it and place it back inside the fish's belly. If there was no roe, you can sauté mushrooms with onions for the filling in the fish. We preheat the oven. While the oven warms up to t = +200 °C, the crucian carp will marinate.
- Place parchment paper on the bottom of the baking dish. Pour in 1 tbsp of vegetable oil. Then, lay out the sliced onion rings. On top, sprinkle the onion with 1 tbsp of breadcrumbs.
- Place the crucian carp on top of the onion.
- Drizzle 1 tbsp of vegetable oil over the top side of the fish and sprinkle with the remaining breadcrumbs.
- Sprinkle sesame on top of the crucian carp. Send the crucian carp to bake in the preheated oven at t = +200 °C for 30 min.
- After 15 min, take the fish out of the oven and drizzle with the fat that has collected at the bottom of the dish.
- Return the fish to the oven to finish baking.
- Serve the fish baked whole in the oven with lemon wedges.
Enjoy your meal!
