Eel dishes - 9 delicious homemade cooking recipes

In Russia, the common eel lives in the Baltic basin.

To cook eel dishes , this fish must be carefully processed. Recipes with eel It is advised to wash and wipe the fish dry first to remove the mucus. Then an incision is made around the head of the eel and the skin is removed.
Since the eel is very slippery, you can rub a pinch of salt in your fingers before doing this. After that, you can cut the eel lengthwise and gut it. If we cook at home, then the procedure for preparing the eel for cooking will look exactly like this.

If you decide to pickle an eel, then in this case it is better not to remove the skin from it. Usually, this fish has the most delicious fat under its skin. Recipes recommend cooking eel in red wine, serving it with sweet and sour sauce, frying, baking and stuffing.

For example, small pieces of eel should be put in a saucepan, add chopped onions here, wine and the broth, cover with a lid and cook the eel until tender. Then put it on a platter and pour the sauce over the fish.

It is not so important which of the eels you will find in the store - sea or river. However, it should be remembered that there are significant differences in their chemical composition. For example, sea eel has more protein and fewer fats and calories. But there are fewer proteins in river eel, and much more fats, as well as its calorie content is three times higher. The sea eel also has a high iodine content. But there are almost equally many useful substances such as iron, phosphorus and potassium in both types of these fish. Well, as for the vitamin content, acne contains vitamins A, D and E, as well as some B vitamins.