Fish argentina - golden smelt or silver

Argentina is a fish with a very moderate ability to reproduce, despite the fact that it sways from March to May from three to seven and a half thousand large eggs that develop well in the depth from three hundred to four hundred meters.

Fish argentina inhabits the European and American coast of the Atlantic, in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It can be found off the coast of Northern Norway. This fish grows very slowly. For example, it reaches its average length of sixty centimeters only to the age of twenty-five. Her puberty comes only in the tenth - twelfth year of life.

Fish argentina is deep, so a full life for the pack is provided by the bottom part of the ocean, having an average depth of one hundred and fifty to six hundred meters and more. One can judge the depths of the flock by the remains of very deep-water species of plankton found in the intestines of fish. It is fed by numerous invertebrates, which we are familiar with as products produced in the sea - squid, crustaceans.

For fish catches, Argentina is not a champion. Perhaps this is due to insignificant fertility, very slow growth and late maturation, as well as living at very deep depths. Its name has nothing to do with the country of the same name, it is translated as "silvery", so our fishermen have long called it silver, and in some Russian pomor areas it is called golden smelt. Its average size in the catches from the American coasts is from twenty-five to forty centimeters with a weight of two hundred to six hundred grams. From the ocean abysses, close to the European continent, professional fishermen catch it in length of half a meter and weighing up to one kilogram.

Fish argentina is a very useful dietary product containing only two percent of fat and up to twenty percent of proteins. The consistency of meat is very gentle, and the taste is pleasant. Fishing schooners catch it purely for food purposes: cooking, smoking, canning. On the market, it comes more often in a freshly frozen form as semi-finished or whole. It is tasty and fried, and baked, so you can not fail to mention at least one recipe with it.

Baked silver with garlic tomato sauce

For this dish does not need a large list of products, and its preparation does not take much time, but the enjoyment of its wonderful taste will be huge.

For cooking, you will need:

• Fish argentina - 500 grams.
• Garlic - 2 teeth.
• Pepper burning - a small piece.
• Tomato paste - 70 grams.
• Sugar-sand - 1 teaspoon.
• Vegetable oil.
• Spices and greens.
• Salt.

Preparing for cooking

Clear the fish, remove the remains of the entrails and wash in cold water.

On the fish carcass on both sides make cuts in the form of crosses, sprinkle with salt and leave for twenty minutes to ripen.

Peel and coarse two cloves of garlic.

Heat oven to 180 ^° C.

Preparation of baked fish

Take a frying pan, pour a little vegetable oil into it, roast and fry the garlic, add tomato paste, sugar, a piece of bitter pepper and a couple of spoons of hot water at the end. Bring to a boil with stirring.

Lubricate the form with fat, lay the fish in it, pour the sauce over it, sprinkle with herbs and bake for half an hour.

The dish is equally good for dinner, and for evening dinner, and the sauce will give the fish juiciness and piquancy.