Fish navaga - a masterpiece of cooking

Fish Navaga (the second name of this wonderful fish - vahnya) belongs to the cod family. It occurs most often in the northern seas or in the Pacific waters and is divided into two types: northern and Far Eastern. The first can be found from the coasts of Korea to the Bering Strait, the second - near the Arctic shores of Siberia.

Gastronomic properties of Navaga

Fish Navaga is most suitable for dietary and baby food. Most of it is suitable for frying, but the hostess, showing off her culinary skills, bake it with vegetables, cheese or even pickle.

Navaga - a fish that is cut in a frozen form so that it does not lose its primary structure and shape. Previously, it was transported on a sleigh frozen naturally to large cities, but now this tradition is no longer relevant.

Before frying, they cut off the head, cut off the loin, panize. For flour, stir the flour and salt. Sometimes with the addition of egg yolk. Fry navaga in vegetable oil or in sunflower oil with pork fat (fat). Garnish for such fish can be taken by anyone, but the best option is potatoes in any form.

Pickled fish Navaga in its time was very popular traditional Russian snack. It is very easy to cook, and the taste is simply divine. You need to fry fish, pour marinade and insist for about three - four days. Used such charm with black bread and mustard. You can put on the bread and a salted cucumber.

Fish Utilities

Fish Navaga is very useful. It is rich in vitamins and microelements. Magnesium (Mg), iodine (I), calcium (Ca), potassium (K), sodium (Na), zinc (Zn), molybdenum (Mo), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl), iron (Fe), Vitamins В1, В2, РР and many others - that is the rich fish of Navaga. Caloric content is very small, about 68.5 calories per 100 grams. Particularly useful is the liver of Vakhni. It is quite fatty and useful substances contained in it, positively affect the human body, providing anti-inflammatory and antihistamine effect. That is why you should include this fish in your diet for raising and strengthening immunity, as well as normalizing the activity of the nervous system.

Ways of cooking navaga

First of all navaga - fish. Recipes for its preparation are quite simple. Today we learn how to bake bread with vegetables.

Ingredients:

Fish - 1 kg.

Flour - polstakana (for breading)

Onions - 1 pc.

Carrots - 1 pc.

Tomatoes - 3 pcs.

Sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon

Salt, pepper - to taste

Carnation, peppercorns - for 1.2 pieces.

Preparation :

1. Fish should be thawed (to the state of half-frostbite), gutted, cut off the head, washed under running water. Then, as you like, you can bake it whole or separate the loin with a knife, dividing it into pieces.
2. Lubricate the baking sheet with sunflower oil.
3. Prepare flour mixed with salt and pepper for breading.
4. Cut the onions and carrots.

Preparation:

1. Roll every carcass, fillet or slices in flour.
2. Put on a baking sheet and turn over. (This condition is mandatory, so that the top part is in oil, and in flour).
3. Put everything in one layer.
4. Bake in an oven at 180 degrees for half an hour. (You can cover with foil, but then you need to make two or three holes and open the foil in ten minutes).

Let us repeat that navaga is a fish. Bake recipes are different. Therefore, many people stop at this stage, sprinkling the fish with cheese. But we are preparing an unusually delicious "casserole".

Sweet and sour marinade is the most suitable. For him:

1. Take the already cut onion rings and straws carrots.
2. Grind the tomatoes in the meat grinder.
3. Put the vegetables (except tomatoes) on a preheated pan with preheated vegetable oil, fry until the onion becomes transparent with a golden hue.
4. Tomatoes pour into a frying pan and simmer for about 5 minutes with the addition of salt, sugar, cloves and pepper.

Final stage:

1. Pour the marinade in the pan. It is not necessary that it covers the entire surface of the fish.
2. Put in the oven for baking for another 10 minutes.

All is ready. For fans you can sprinkle with cheese or finely chopped greens.

The dish is ready. Place the fish on a beautiful plate and serve it to the table.

Conclusion

Today we got acquainted with such a wonderful fish as Navaga. Do not be afraid to experiment with its preparation. Wow tasty in any form, and even if it cools down, your household will be happy to try this delicacy.

Have a nice appetite for you and your family.