Smelt fried in a frying pan in flour

Simple, fast, delicious dinner for the whole family! Smelt fried in flour in a frying pan is the simplest recipe for cooking this fish. But, despite this, it turns out a very tasty and satisfying dish. If you have never tried smelt, then you can start getting to know it with this recipe.

Anna

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Smelt

500

Flour

100

Vegetable oil

Salt

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 39 % 13 g

Fats 30 % 10 g

Carbohydrates 30 % 10 g

187 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:
How to fry smelt in flour? Prepare the necessary products. Smelt is better to take fresh. Now such fish is freely available in supermarkets all year round. To feel the taste of real smelt, it is better to buy it in the spring. If you have a frozen smelt, then take it out of the freezer in advance so that it has time to melt. This will happen most delicately on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
Step 2:
Pre-wash and dry the fish. Smelt of small size has slightly noticeable scales - it can not be cleaned. It is better to clean larger fish.
Step 3:
Next, cut up the smelt — cut off the head of each fish, pull out all the insides (the fish can be bitter with them). Rinse the fish again under running cold water. If there is caviar in the fish, then many people advise leaving it. Do it or not — decide for yourself. Dry the fish with paper towels.
Step 4:
In a convenient bowl, mix flour with salt. Put a frying pan with vegetable oil on the stove on medium heat. Roll each fish in the flour mixture and put it in a preheated frying pan. Alternatively, you can mix flour with salt in a plastic bag and put each fish there already. This way you will not dirty the dishes and the table.
Step 5:
Put the fish in the pan in rows not very tightly, so that when it is turned over it does not fall apart. Fry the smelt over medium heat without closing the pan with a lid. First fry the fish for 3-4 minutes on one side.
Step 6:
Then gently flip it over and fry on the other side until tender.
Step 7:
Serve the finished smelt, fried in a frying pan, hot. Rice or boiled potatoes are perfect as a side dish for such fish, as well as a salad of fresh vegetables.

Note 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.

Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.

To check whether the oil has warmed up well enough in a frying pan, you can do it in a simple way. Lower a wooden spatula into it. If bubbles have gathered around it, then you can start the frying process.