Mackerel is a very healthy and tasty sea fish. It is very rich in phosphorus and omega-3 fatty acids. By the method of salting, it does not differ from the herring known to everyone. There are some fairly simple recipes for salting mackerel tasty and quickly at home.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- The easiest way to cook is salting in a dry way.
- - black allspice 5 pcs,
- - cloves 5 pcs,
- - ground coriander 0.5 tsp,
- - Bay leaf,
- - black ground pepper 5 gr,
- - dry mustard on the tip of the knife,
- - salt, sugar, 1 tbsp. l
- - vinegar 70% -1 tsp,
- - vegetable oil 3 tbsp. l
Instruction manual
1
Remove fins, cut off the head, tail. Then separate the skin, remove the insides and bones.
Cut the fillet into several parts.
2
Mix all the spices in one container and dip the fillet pieces on both sides in this mixture. Then put them in an enameled pan with a wide bottom. Top up with the remaining mass of a mixture of spices and vegetable oil and leave in the cold for 72 hours.
3
Then take out the pieces, remove excess salt and spices. No need to be afraid of oversalt, the fish will take only the required amount. When serving, nicely decorate with lettuce, rings of pickled onions or herbs.
note
It tastes better salting large specimens of mackerel.
Useful advice
When buying fish, you need to pay attention to its appearance: you should not buy a mackerel with a yellowish or brown coating, with a pungent smell of fish oil - as a rule, these are signs of an old product.