Catfish baked in the oven

Oven-baked catfish - quick and easy! The catfish baked in the oven, cooked according to this recipe, turns out tender and juicy, in a light sour cream sauce. The dish is prepared very simply and easily, from the most affordable products. You can bake any fish according to this recipe, not only catfish!

Natalia Tsybulskaya

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Catfish

500

Sour cream

Lemons

0.5

Salt

to taste

Vegetable oil

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 54 % 14 g

Fats 42 % 11 g

Carbohydrates 4 % 1 g

156 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:
How to make catfish baked in the oven? Prepare the products. It is best to take the fish chilled, freshly caught. It is not necessary to take a whole fish: it can be catfish steaks, and ready-made catfish fillet. We will only need juice from lemon, so you can take ready-made lemon juice. If you squeeze the juice out of a lemon, then pre-scald it, so the lemon will give more juice. Oil can be any vegetable, and salt, ideally, sea.
Step 2:
Remove the head and tail from the fish, cut into steaks or cut fillets. Catfish is not bony, so fillets usually do not contain bones.
Step 3:
Grease the heat-resistant mold in which you will bake the fish with vegetable oil. The oil can be both olive and simple sunflower.
Step 4:
Lay out the fish fillets or steaks.
Step 5:
Salt the fish. Now you can add your favorite spices and seasonings. Allspice, dill and basil are perfect.
Step 6:
Pour lemon juice over the fish. Catfish is not very "fragrant", but lemon juice will remove the excess fishy smell.
Step 7:
Pour sour cream over the fish. Bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for about 20-30 minutes. If you want to get a more "ruddy" fish, then just put the mold in the oven and bring it to readiness. If you are interested in the option when the fish is stewed, then cover the baking dish with foil and cook the fish in a closed form.
Step 8:
Serve this fish with fresh vegetables and vegetable salads. Enjoy your meal!

Catfish is one of those rare fish that does not have scales, which means it does not need to be cleaned, which simplifies its preparation.
There is an opinion that catfish feeds on carrion, but in fact this is not the case. In fact, the catfish's food is small crustaceans, fry and aquatic insects.
Serve baked catfish with a side dish of potatoes and rice. Or with light vegetable salads or just with seasonal vegetables and fresh fragrant herbs.
Bon appetit!

How to properly cut a whole fish into fillets? Remove the tail, head and fins. Cut the carcass along the spine to the spine. Turn it on its side. With a sharp knife, cut the meat from the backbone bone. Turn the carcass over and cut the fillet from the other side. Clean the inside by removing the black film, as it is bitter and will spoil the taste. Rinse and be sure to dry well.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

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