If you love fish, but it’s not always possible to spend a lot of money on it, a budget person such as pollock can come to the rescue. It can be easily found in stores in the frozen department. In addition to the low price, the advantage of this fish is also that it is practically boneless and does not require cleaning, but is prepared in a matter of minutes. Try baking pollock in the oven. The dish will turn out tender, juicy and very tasty.
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You will need
- - frozen pollock - 1 kg;
- - sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- - ground black pepper to taste;
- - salt - 1 tsp;
- - red hot pepper - 2 pinches (optional);
- - lemon - 1 pc. (optional);
- - fresh dill - 1 bunch (optional);
- - baking dish.
Instruction manual
1
To start, pollock need to be thawed, leaving it at room temperature for 2 hours. Or at night, move it from the freezer to the refrigerator on the top shelf. If you are in a hurry, you can use the Defrost function in the microwave. Another option: put the fish in a bag and drop it in a bowl of cold water. But in order to preserve the juiciness and taste, such quick defrosting methods should be dispensed with only in extreme cases.
2
When the fish is ready for processing, cut off the ponytails, if any, and wash it under cold running water. Then dry the pollock with paper or kitchen towels and place in a large bowl. In this case, the carcasses can be left whole or chopped into portioned pieces.
3
In a separate small bowl, mix ground black pepper, salt and sunflower oil. Pepper is taken to taste, and salt in the amount of 1 teaspoon without a slide will be quite optimal. If you like spicy notes on the palate, you can add a couple of pinches of red hot pepper. It will not only make the dish sharper, but also give the crust an additional beautiful shade.
4
Then evenly coat the pollock on all sides so that each piece is coated with an oil mixture. After that, turn on the oven and set the temperature to 220 degrees. Pollock itself is rather dry, so it’s important to bake it at high temperature. In this case, the fish will cook quickly, but all the juiciness will remain with it.
5
While the oven is warming up, take a baking dish, grease it with sunflower oil and put the fish in one layer. Then you can send the workpiece to the oven. After 20 minutes, increase the temperature to 250 degrees and continue to bake for another 5 minutes.
6
Remove the pollock from the oven and transfer to a dish. If you wish, you can pour it with juice squeezed from one lemon, or just cut the fruit into circles and put them on top. Serve the fish by sprinkling it with chopped dill, with a salad of fresh vegetables.