Steamed cod

Tender, juicy, light, healthy, for the whole family! Steamed cod is a dish that is suitable for adherents of a healthy diet, dieters and just those who like to eat tasty and healthy. The fish turns out to be very fragrant and appetizing!

Natalia Tsybulskaya

The author of the recipe

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 88 % 14 g

Fats 6 % 1 g

Carbohydrates 6 % 1 g

69 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:
How to make cod steamed? Prepare the products. Cod, if possible, take fresh, chilled. There are much more useful substances in such fish than in ice cream. It can be either a cod fillet or its steak. If you only have frozen fish, be sure to defrost it properly. Immediately after the freezer, place the frozen fish in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours and only then completely defrost it at room temperature.
Step 2:
Defrost the fish if necessary, wash it well and dry it with paper towels. Cut into medium-sized pieces. Cod keeps its shape well and does not boil, so you can use cod fillets without skin.
Step 3:
Only juice will be needed from the lemon. Therefore, it is quite possible to use ready-made lemon juice. If you squeeze the juice out of a lemon yourself, then pre—wash it with very hot water, or even scald it with boiling water - so it will give much more juice. I also recommend using a small sieve so that the lemon seeds do not get into the fish.
Step 4:
Prepare a slow cooker or steamer. Put the pieces of fish in a steaming container.
Step 5:
Salt it a little. If you wish, you can add some other favorite herbs or seasonings. Provencal herbs, thyme or rosemary are perfect here. And for someone, ordinary ground pepper will be quite enough.
Step 6:
Pour water into the bowl of a slow cooker or steamer. You can add bay leaf or sweet pepper peas to it for flavor. And in summer, fresh dill or basil will do. Everything you add to the water will eventually give its flavor to the finished dish.
Step 7:
Put the fish container on the bowl with water. Set the "Steaming" mode on the slow cooker, set the time to 15 minutes. It will be quite enough for the fish to be fully cooked.
Step 8:
Serve the cod with fresh herbs and seasonal vegetables. Enjoy your meal!

Keep in mind that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way, read the article about defrosting.

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 the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. Pressure cookers are different: electric, multi-cooker pressure cookers and models for gas stoves. Any technique has its own characteristics and even the same models of the same manufacturer may differ in heating parameters, etc. Therefore, carefully study the instructions for your device, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique and your taste.