Coho salmon or silver salmon, like many other representatives of the noble salmon family, has a high nutritional, biological and dietary value. Its meat has an unusually tender, soft, juicy texture, combined with an original rich taste and pleasant aroma. In terms of taste, silver salmon is not much inferior to popular delicacy varieties of red fish such as chum salmon, salmon or ocean salmon, but, compared to its eminent relatives, it is more affordable. Festive and everyday coho salmon recipes are equally popular with professional chefs and amateur cooks. After all, dishes from it are obtained not only tasty and deliver a lot of gastronomic pleasure, but also very useful.
Despite the fact that the meat of this inhabitant of the deep sea is quite fatty, it is low energy value– 140 kcal/100 g. This is an ideal product for those who follow the slimness of the figure and adhere to the principles proper nutrition. It contains large reserves of protein in an easily digestible form, essential amino acids, minerals, biologically active organic compounds and a complex of omega-3 fatty acids.
Chefs love coho salmon for its ease of preparation, as its meat is not bony, so there is no need to spend time removing all the small bones. Another plus is that any heat treatment is available with this fish. Let's find out what baking methods allow you to cook delicious, satisfying and healthy coho salmon dishes.
Preparation of ingredients
Cooking baked coho salmon is a simple matter, however, it also has its own peculiarities. The carcass of this large-headed fish with a short, high caudal stalk and shiny scales weighs on average 13–15 kg, and its length can vary from 90 cm to 1 m. The specificity of cooking silver salmon directly depends on its size. Placing such a large fish whole in a standard oven is quite problematic. It is much more convenient to bake it in portions in the form of steaks.
The whole process of preparing fish for heat treatment in the oven comes down to cleaning the scales, removing the gills and internal contents, followed by rubbing the salt cut into portions or whole carcasses.
If you plan to bake fish with vegetables, then the root crops must be thoroughly washed and dried with paper towels. Broccoli must be divided into inflorescences, eggplant fruits - cut into two parts or cut into circles. Leek heads can be baked whole or in individual rings.
Recipes
Baking fish can be of several types: open, closed, short-term. In the first case, heat-resistant forms, a grill, a baking sheet, and skewers are used for its preparation. At closed method the product is wrapped in a foil bag, placed in a fireproof dish under a lid, sleeves or baking bags made of heat-resistant and safe food film, or laid out in pots. The main goal of short-term baking of fish is to obtain a beautiful golden crust.
There are a huge number of recipes for baked coho salmon. The easiest option involves cooking silver salmon steaks in foil. It makes no sense to describe it in detail, since this recipe is so elementary that even novice cooks can handle it. In this case, the pieces of fish are simply salted, peppered and, if desired, rubbed with spices. It remains to squeeze the lemon juice, sprinkle the steaks with it, wrap it in foil and send it to the oven.
The dish is baked at t 200–220 ° C, setting the mode of intensive lower and upper heating. This is done in two stages: first for 15 minutes, and then, removing the foil wrapper, for another 5 minutes, so that the top of the steaks can be properly browned. The best addition to silver salmon, baked in this way, will be rice balls combined with fresh salad greens.
Kizhuch stuffed with herbs
The meat of red fish, whole baked in foil, will please with its natural taste, incredible aroma and appetizing ruddy crust without carcinogens.
Ingredients:
- chilled coho salmon - 1.5 kg;
- finely ground black and red pepper;
- coarsely ground sea salt;
- mayonnaise;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- greens (parsley, dill, green onions or leeks, celery).
Cooking process.
- Cut the prepared carcass deeply along the entire length in several places, but not completely, that is, without damaging the ridge itself. Due to such cuts made at regular intervals, a neat fish accordion should be obtained.
- Prepare a mixture of salt, black and red pepper, and then rub the fish with it on all sides: inside, outside and between the cuts.
- Cover a baking sheet with two layers of foil, lay coho salmon on top, coat it outside and inside the cuts with mayonnaise mixed with lemon juice.
- Put the filling of finely chopped, salted greens inside the carcass, cover with a second sheet of foil, pinch the edges and send to bake.
- Cook at t 200 ° C for 25 minutes, remembering to remove the foil on top 5 minutes before removing the coho salmon to give it time to brown.
Silver salmon stuffed with greens goes well with rice or potato side dishes.
with broccoli
Ingredients:
- coho salmon, fillet - 0.5 kg;
- broccoli - 0.4 kg;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter - 120 g;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- cream or sour cream 30% fat - 100 ml;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- nutmeg- ¼ tsp
Cooking process.
- We cut the prepared coho salmon into pieces 1.5-2 cm thick. Sprinkle the slices with pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice and leave to marinate for half an hour.
- Drain the marinade, pour boiling water and simmer over low heat for 8-10 minutes.
- Pour boiling water over the asparagus cabbage, add some salt and cook for 5-7 minutes.
- Boil the potatoes until half cooked or bake in the microwave.
- Whip cream or sour cream with eggs, pepper, salt and add nutmeg.
- Lubricate the heat-resistant form with butter, lay out the layers of fish, broccoli, potatoes and pour the creamy-egg mixture. Sprinkle the dish with grated cheese and send it to the oven to bake for 25 minutes at t 200–220 ° C.
With cheese and vegetables
Cooking process.
- Gut the fish, cut off the head with fins, clean the scales. Rinse the carcass, dry and cut into pieces.
- Season the steaks with salt, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Cut the onions into half rings and fry until golden brown.
- Spread the fried onions in an even layer on the bottom of the baking dish, and place the pieces of fish on top.
- Cut the tomatoes into circles and lightly brown in a frying pan in a small amount of oil, frying on each side for no longer than 7-10 seconds.
- Put a layer of tomatoes on the steaks, grease with mayonnaise, take a large grater and grate cheese on top.
- Bake in the oven at t 180–200°C for 40 minutes.
Under the cheese crust, red fish steaks are especially juicy and tender.
With potatoes and sour cream
It is convenient to bake coho salmon in tandem with potatoes, originally served to the table in individual plates of baking sheets. The use of foil guarantees the most tender fish fillets cooked in own juice, which is also well saturated with a side dish of potatoes. Let's find out step by step how to do it.
Ingredients:
- coho salmon carcass weighing about 1 kg;
- potatoes - 7–9 pcs.;
- sour cream with a fat content of 30% - 2 tbsp. l.;
- salt and black ground pepper - to taste.
Baking technology.
- Divide the gutted and scaled fish into steaks. The optimal thickness of portioned pieces is 3 cm. Rinse and dry the fish blanks.
- Lay out the foil on a baking sheet, lifting it around the edges so that you get an impromptu tray. The foil sides will prevent the fish juice from flowing out during the cooking process.
- Lay out the pieces of coho salmon, trying to stack them together as tightly as possible. Salt and pepper the fish.
- Cut the potatoes into slices 0.5 cm thick and divide into two equal slides.
- Put the first part of the potato on the steaks, form a uniform thin layer from the circles and grease it with sour cream.
- Spread the rest of the potatoes on top of the second layer and also flavor it with sour cream.
- Take another sheet of foil and cover the top of the fish and potatoes with it, pinching the edges well.
- Bake at t 180–200°C in two stages for 40 minutes. After the first 20 minutes, the baking sheet must be removed and the top sheet of foil removed so that the fish coat acquires an appetizing crust during further baking.
- Send coho salmon to the oven for another 20 minutes to bake.
Grate cheese of any hard variety and sprinkle it with the finished dish. It is convenient to serve baked coho salmon with potatoes directly in foil with sliced fresh vegetables and sprigs of greens.
One of the main advantages of coho salmon is its versatility in terms of flavor combinations. This fish can be served as a gourmet dish with wine or as a democratic snack with beer. Following the recommendations of professional chefs will help you successfully cook coho salmon in the oven according to any recipe you like.
- When buying coho salmon, you should give preference to a fresh or chilled product, dense and elastic to the touch. The skin of frozen fish, as a rule, has a weak tone, and the flesh has a flabby texture. Thawed coho salmon - not the best the best way for baking, since such meat, having been in the oven, often turns out to be rather dry.
- Silver salmon fillet is famous for its rich taste and delicate aroma. When fresh or chilled, it is delicious on its own and without seasoning. For those who are used to using spices, it is important to observe the measure. spicy herbs should be at a minimum, otherwise you can "score" the unique natural taste of coho salmon meat.
- Silver salmon forms ideal flavor combinations with ginger root, balsamic vinegar, nutmeg and walnut, provencal herbs.
- There is no special need for marinating coho salmon before baking, since there are few seeds in it. Marinade lovers can be advised to use a simple mixture for this purpose: lemon juice + coriander + ground pepper to emphasize the rich taste of salmon.
- When fish and vegetables are baked open way, salt should be used sparingly, since under its influence juice is intensively released, as a result of which the meat comes out overdried, without acquiring a beautiful golden crust.
The recipe for cooking salmon in the oven, see the video below.
Kizhuch is a representative of the salmon family, which is well known to Kamchatka fishermen. Among its relatives, it differs not only in bright silvery scales, but also in solid dimensions: one fish can grow up to 15 kg.
If you are lucky enough to get a piece of this salmon giant, then our coho salmon recipes in the oven will certainly be especially relevant.
Coho salmon in sour cream, baked in the oven
Despite the fact that coho salmon is quite juicy on its own, some people like to bake it under sour cream in order to maintain maximum juiciness and diversify the taste of fish. In this recipe, we will bake coho salmon under a mixture of sour cream and cheese.
Ingredients:
- salmon fillet - 800 g;
- sour cream - 120 g;
- grain mustard - 1 ½ teaspoons;
- grated parmesan - 25 g.
Cooking
- Divide the fillet into 4 parts and dry each of them. Season the fish and lay it skin side down on the oiled parchment.
- Now to the sauce. It is a simple mixture of sour cream with mustard and grated cheese, which also needs to be flavored with salt and pepper.
- Distribute sour cream sauce on the surface of the fillets. Bake the fish for 10-15 minutes at 220 degrees.
Coho salmon steak - recipe in the oven
Ingredients:
- coho salmon steak - 4 pcs.;
- lime juice - 45 ml;
- - 15 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- butter - 35 g;
- a pinch of cumin and chili.
Cooking
- Lay the dried fish steaks on a foil-lined baking sheet.
- Mix the remaining ingredients from the list to get the marinade. Spread the marinade over the surface of the fish pulp and send everything to bake in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 15 minutes.
How to cook coho salmon in the oven in foil?
Fish and lemon are a classic duo that goes along well with any cooking method. This time we will bake coho salmon with a classic lemon-butter sauce, wrapped in foil to preserve the juiciness of the fish and saturate it with all the flavors.
Many people cannot imagine life without fish. Some have been fond of its different varieties since childhood, whether it be sprat, pollock, or red, cooked in any form.
Currently, stores are ready to impress their customers with any kind of fish. Now we all have a great opportunity to choose any fish from all its diversity - the tastes of all consumers, even the most demanding and demanding ones, will no doubt be taken into account.
One of the most delicious fish is coho salmon. It is often referred to as silver salmon. This fish is quite large. It belongs to the salmon family and belongs to the genus
This name was given to the fish by the Americans and the Japanese for its silvery, iridescent, scale color.
On the territory of our country, this fish has been called white for centuries.
Its length can reach one meter. As for weight, it can reach seven or even fifteen kilograms.
As a rule, smaller fish are presented in stores in a large assortment.
Despite this, one cannot fail to note the important advantage of coho salmon over all other varieties: meat contains healthy fats, vitamins B1 and B2, microelements necessary for the body, including calcium, potassium, magnesium, chlorine, iron, zinc and many others.
Coho salmon is not only amazingly tasty, but also extremely healthy fish. It is recommended for pregnant women, teenagers, children and the elderly.
On the Internet, you can find numerous baking recipes. You can cook coho salmon not only for fish soup, stew it with vegetables, salt, fry in sour cream - you can cook coho salmon in the oven.
To do this, you just need to take fish, two cloves of garlic, two cloves of lemon, as well as seasonings to taste.
Coho salmon must be thoroughly washed, cut off the fins from the tail and from both sides. After the fish is prepared, it is necessary to process it with seasonings. The most commonly used salt and pepper. Two cloves of garlic are placed in the abdomen, and it is best to cut them across.
Also in the abdomen is to put a slice of lemon and greens. Green fish can be decorated.
Since coho salmon is an oily fish, no more seasonings are required. best produced in foil. Her after all preparatory work transfer to foil, carefully wrap in it and place in the oven.
Coho salmon in the oven is cooked for a relatively short time - within thirty minutes. After that, the fish is laid out on a dish and a slice of lemon is squeezed out to give a spicy aroma. Coho salmon is best served with rice, as well as vegetables.
This recipe is very simple, it does not require any special skills from the hostess.
There are also more complex recipes. To do this, you will need one and a half kilograms of coho salmon, one lemon, various salt to taste and foil used for baking. To prepare the sauce, you need 20% fat sour cream, green onion and dill.
The best side dish is baked potatoes.
Coho salmon must be cleaned, washed under running water and also cut into pieces. The width of each piece should not be more than three centimeters.
It is necessary to put foil on a baking sheet, and put it in such a way that you can wrap the fish in it.
Each piece of fish is usually sprinkled with lemon juice, and lemon slices are placed on top. Pieces are salted, peppered, spices are added, black and red peppers are most often used - then coho salmon in the oven turns out to be more fragrant and spicy.
After that, the fish can be wrapped in foil and put in the oven for forty minutes. At the same time, potatoes can be cooked on an adjacent baking sheet. It can also be wrapped in foil. You can talk about the benefits for a long time - it is worth saying that it contains many useful and vital substances for the life of the human body.
As for the sauce for fish, it is prepared at the very last moment. Put sour cream, green onions, dill in a blender, salt and beat everything properly.
Coho salmon in the oven with sauce and baked potatoes is not only tasty, but also a healthy dish. Bon Appetit!
Red fish is a healthy and easy food that should be present in the diet of every person. Coho salmon baked in the oven is one of the most delicious meals that you have ever tried. This fish is rich in minerals, micro and macro elements, as well as polyunsaturated fatty acids omega 3, vitamins of group B. The meat of this fish itself is recognized as one of the most delicious of the entire salmon family.
Ingredients
- - coho salmon 300 g
- - olive oil 30 g
- - cherry tomatoes 5-7 pcs
- - onion 1 pc
- - salt
- - ground black pepper
- - hard cheese 50 g
- - seasonings to taste
- - foil
Cooking
Coho salmon steak cooking recipes are varied in the number of ingredients for fish. To prepare coho salmon, you need to take a steak, salt and pepper it on both sides and coat with olive oil. Lay out the foil on a baking sheet and lay the coho salmon steaks in the middle. Top with onion cut into half rings, halves of cherry tomatoes, sprinkle with seasonings to taste and grated hard cheese. Wrap the foil tightly and place in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. Remove the fish from the oven 5 minutes before it is ready, open the foil and put it back so that the fish is covered with a beautiful baked cheese crust.
Kizhuch recipes in the oven can also be prepared in the culinary sleeve. For cooking coho steaks, recipes in the oven can be prepared with rosemary, ginger, potatoes, carrots and other vegetables. Coho fish cooking recipes with soy sauce are among the most delicious. Of course, recipes for cooking in the oven cannot do without coho salmon lemon. Kizhuch steaks recipes with mayonnaise will be delicious, but more high-calorie. There are many options for cooking this fish, but how to cook coho salmon and with what - it's up to you!
Coho salmon useful properties
There are many useful things in this fish, as in all red fish. Due to the low calorie content of coho fish, its benefits are invaluable in various diets. Due to the fact that there are few small bones in the meat of this fish, it can be given to children. However, coho salmon fish benefits and harms should be known to everyone. It is not recommended for people with liver and gastrointestinal disease.
Discussion: 4 comments
So beautifully told about the coho fish. but at the end, a distressing warning. It is not recommended for liver problems. Well, I'll be content with a different kind of fish.
Answer
Among them are minerals and even vitamins. By the way, this fish is ideal for children's dishes, because it has few bones. And coho salmon caviar is very often used even in traditional medicine. It has a beneficial effect on vision, brain activity and immunity. Scientists have found that its use significantly reduces the likelihood of cancer.
Today there are many different dishes, where leading role it is coho that plays. Recipes are simple, festive, national. However, they all have one thing in common - they are useful.
How to pickle coho salmon
The most popular method of preparing coho salmon is its salting. To do this, the fish is thoroughly washed, and then cut into small pieces, always along the ridge. For 1 kg of fish, you will need to mix exactly 2 tablespoons of table salt, a spoonful of sugar and half a spoonful of spices that are suitable for fish. Each piece of coho salmon is rubbed with such an original mixture. All of them are placed in a saucepan, sprinkled with lemon juice and put under oppression in the refrigerator. Literally in a day or two, you can enjoy such a cold snack with pleasure.
Kizhuch in the oven
One of the most low-calorie meals it is considered baked coho salmon. Recipes for its preparation may involve the use of a variety of ingredients. This option suggests taking one fish, a tomato, a lemon, mayonnaise and a lot of different greens.
Tomato and lemon are cut into thin slices. The fish must be cleaned and washed thoroughly. The whole carcass is rubbed with salt. Do not forget to do this inside the fish.
Deep cuts are made on one side of the coho salmon, where lemon slices, tomato slices, some greens and mayonnaise are placed. On top of the fish, you can pepper a little.
Greens and slices of lemon and tomato that remain are also placed in the belly of coho salmon. In this form, the dish is placed in a preheated oven. As soon as the color of the fish becomes golden, fried, it can be taken out and served on the table. The perfect side dish in this case rice will serve.
coho sticks
They turn out tender and incredibly tasty if you take coho fish. There are different recipes: in batter, without it, with spices, etc. And the secret of this dish is in the special preparation of fish before frying.
You will need to take half a kilogram of fish, an egg, 2 tablespoons of flour, 2 glasses of clean water, a small spoonful of vinegar, an onion, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sunflower oil, as well as basic spices. Water is poured into a bowl, and vinegar is added there. It is good if onion, cut into rings, is added to such a brine. The fish is also sent to the marinade. Only not whole, but also cut into sticks-sticks. For about an hour, everything should be infused, preferably in the refrigerator.
As soon as the coho salmon is marinated, the pieces are salted and peppered on all sides. Then it is worth starting to create a batter. To do this, the egg is mixed with flour and salted. Each fish stick is dipped in batter and fried on all sides in oil. This is a great hot appetizer that can be served cold.
Honey salmon. Original cuisine recipes
original holiday dish anyone can cook from coho salmon. To do this, you only need to take one and a half kilograms of fish, a grapefruit, a few lemons, 2 tablespoons of honey, an onion, a spoonful of mustard, 4 tablespoons olive oil and seasonings (nutmeg, pepper, cardamom and, of course, salt).
To begin with, juice from citrus fruits is squeezed out. Chopped onions, all kinds of spices, salt and honey are added to it. The fish is cut into small pieces-portions and placed in the marinade. For about 2 hours, the coho salmon will have to stand like this.
The pieces are taken out and smeared with mustard. Only after that they are sent to a baking sheet with butter. During baking, the fish is poured with marinade.
