So, in the first part you got acquainted with the beneficial properties of pollock. By the way in Korea pollock is considered one of the valuable fish, which cannot yet be said about the countries of the former USSR. But one way or another beneficial properties of pollock For the human body, it cannot be taken away from it; all that remains is to use it wisely for food, preparing tasty and healthy dishes from it. And I am happy to present to you something I have prepared that is so tasty and healthy. pollock dish – pollock baked in the oven with rice and vegetables.
Baked fish with rice in the oven, recipe
The recipe for delicious baked fish (pollack baked with rice) in the oven does not pose any difficulties. Following the sequential description of the process, this is a fish dish Even the most novice housewife can cook. The products are all inexpensive, simple and accessible, and baked fish with rice in the oven it turns out simply amazing. In this case, not only pollock, but any other fish is suitable.
To prepare this fish dishes I used the following set of products:
Fresh frozen fish (pollock) – 1 carcass (500 grams);
Rice – 1 cup (250 grams);
Carrots – 1 piece;
Onion – 1 head;
Sweet pepper – 1 piece;
Mayonnaise – 200 grams;
Sunflower oil - for frying vegetables and fish (approximately 50 - 60 grams);
Seasoning for fish;
Ground black pepper;
Flour for breading fish;
Tomato sauce – 2 tablespoons;
How to deliciously cook fish in the oven, step-by-step recipe with photos
To prepare fish baked with rice and vegetables, you need to boil the rice, peel the onions, carrots, bell peppers and cut them. Fry onions and carrots. Clean the fish, fillet it, cut into pieces and fry. Place layers of rice, fried onions and carrots, fish, and sweet peppers into the pan. Sprinkle everything with seasonings, pour in the sauce, pour over mayonnaise and bake in the oven.
Here is a step-by-step recipe for making baked pollock with all the details.
My fish is a fresh-frozen pollock carcass, which I bought in advance and placed in the freezer. Before cooking, I take it out of the freezer, put it on a plate and leave it to defrost at room temperature. It doesn’t take much time, about 30 minutes. By the way, to prepare the presented dish you can use not only pollock, you can take any other fish. Cod, pollock, burbot, haddock, saffron cod, whiting, whiting, cod and many others, and not only from the cod family, are suitable for success.
In the meantime, while the fish is defrosting, I peel the onions, carrots and sweet bell peppers. I wash the peeled vegetables under running water.
I cut the onion into small cubes.
I grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
Rice (I took steamed, it does not stick together when cooked) I rinse well under cold water to avoid any mealiness.
I put the washed rice into a saucepan, fill it with cold water, add a little salt and put it on the fire to cook. I cook until half cooked, i.e. about ten minutes after boiling. After ten minutes, I remove the saucepan with the rice from the heat, drain the remaining cooking water and leave the rice to cool.
I start frying the vegetables. I put a frying pan on the fire and pour three tablespoons of sunflower oil into it. When the frying pan is hot, I transfer the onions and carrots into it to fry.
I fry them for 8 - 10 minutes, stirring occasionally so that the onions and carrots do not burn. I remove the pan from the heat and also leave the vegetables to cool.
I turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees, so that by the time the preliminary preparation of the fish for baking is complete, the oven is ready for use.
While I was busy with rice and vegetables, my pollock defrosted. I clean it, cut off the fins and tail and wash the belly well. Then, with a sharp knife, I cut the carcass into two halves, removing the backbone and all the bones.
I cut the resulting pollock fillet into pieces and salt them on both sides.
I put a frying pan on the fire and pour sunflower oil into it to pre-fry the fish.
In order not to waste time, I take a baking dish, put boiled rice in it and evenly level it along the bottom of the pan.
I place fried carrots and onions on the rice and also distribute them evenly over the surface of the rice.
During this time, the frying pan with oil warmed up. I take salted pieces of fish, bread them one by one in flour and put them in a heated frying pan for frying.
First, I fry the pollock pieces on one side for about 1 minute. Then I turn it over to the other side, fry it on the other side for about 1 minute, then remove it from the pan and place it in an even layer in a baking dish on top of the layer with carrots.
Sprinkle fish seasoning and ground black pepper on top of the fish.
I cut the previously peeled sweet bell pepper into thin strips.
I place the chopped peppers in random order on the fish.
Now you need to prepare the sauce. To do this, put two tablespoons of tomato sauce in a bowl and dilute it with boiled water.
Greetings, my dear readers! It has been noticed that many housewives rarely prepare a rice side dish. I will not hide the fact that he is capricious. Either the grains turn into a sticky porridge, or they are undercooked. If you have encountered such misfortunes, do not despair. Making fluffy rice on the side is easier than you think. Today’s article, which contains simple and delicious recipes, will help you verify this.
By the way, this cereal is not simple. The dish can be prepared sweet (like Japanese desserts). Or boil it and mix it with hot sauces - and you get a completely different dish. This is an amazing side dish. It is served with meat, fish, mushrooms, and vegetables. In general, there are many options for every taste.
The main secret of a deliciously prepared dish is the right product. This, I tell you, is real science. We have already looked at some varieties of rice when we prepared. The crumbly varieties “basmati”, “devzira” or “jasmine” are perfect not only for pilaf, but also for a side dish.
Before purchasing, take a close look at the packaging. A manufacturer who has nothing to hide, as a rule, delivers his goods in a transparent film or in a cardboard box with a “window” through which you can look inside. Be sure to take a closer look at the contents in the package. If there are a lot of chipped and half grains of rice, there is no need to take this product. It will not make a crumbly side dish. And yet, the grains, white as chalk, are unripe. They are very fragile and boil over hot.
The saucepan, as for any cereal, should not be enameled. Because if the porridge burns in it, it won’t be easy to wash it off. Any metal or heat-resistant glass will do. Of course, you can boil not only in a saucepan. A slow cooker or a frying pan can be used for this.
Recipe for fluffy rice as a side dish in a slow cooker
If you have a Redmond, Polaris, or another brand of assistant, consider yourself very lucky. It is very easy to prepare delicious food with such kitchen appliances. And most importantly, the result will exceed your expectations. But, provided that you follow all the directions contained in the recipe below.
I advise you to take the Basmati rice variety. It always turns out very tasty, and the grains of rice just crumble.
The grains have an oblong shape and when cooked they lengthen even more.
What you will need:
- Basmati – 1 measuring cup
- Water – 2.5 measuring cups
- Butter – 65-70 g
- Salt - to taste
Preparation:
1. Pour thoroughly washed grains into the multicooker bowl. And fill it with clean drinking water. Note that the liquid being added is cool.
2. Salt to taste and mix everything with a special spatula. Add a piece of butter here. Cover the lid and set the unit to the “Grain” mode.
If your multicooker does not have such a program, it doesn’t matter. Take a close look at the control panel. Perhaps there is a “Porridge” or even “Rice” mode.
3. Set the time to 35-40 minutes. And click "Start".
4. After the signal, turn off the device and mix the contents of the bowl.
Note: the dish is cooked in a slow cooker for only 20 minutes. The rest of the time it is only heated, which allows the grains to reach the desired condition.
5. Transfer the side dish into portioned plates and serve. It will be delicious with meat, fish or cutlets with gravy.
Garnish for fish with onions and carrots
You can cook rice with carrots and onions in different ways. For example, in a frying pan or in a cauldron (on the stove) or in the oven. Yes, a multicooker will also work for these purposes.
By the way, you can add vegetables raw to the cereal, and then cook everything together. Or you can first cook the rice, then fry it, which you then mix with the boiled side dish. It all depends on your desire. But as a guide, I offer my step-by-step recipe.
Ingredients:
- Jasmine or other long grain variety – 1 multi-cup
- Onion – 1 root vegetable
- Water - a little more than a liter
- Carrots – 3 small pieces
- Salt – 1 tablespoon
- Ghee butter – 70 g
- Spices - to taste
How to cook:
1. Clean and wash the vegetables. Cut the onion into quarter rings. Grate the carrots on a Korean grater or cut them into thin strips with a knife.
2. Place the frying pan on the stove. If you have thin aluminum cookware, immediately set it aside. This metal is not able to accumulate heat, so it will not be able to heat the product evenly. Another thing is a thick-bottomed frying pan.
3. Add 50 g of melted butter to a slightly warmed bowl.
If you can’t find any melted butter, you can replace it with refined vegetable oil.
4. Place the chopped onion in hot fat and fry it until light golden brown. Add some carrot sticks here. Cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer its contents over low heat for about 10 minutes.
5. Pour the rice into a bowl and rinse intensively with running cold water. This step is very important. The higher quality the product, the less time this procedure will take you. For the premium variety, 3-4 washes are sufficient. But to wash off dirt and other impurities from cheap varieties, the water will have to be drained 8-10 times.
Please note that the last drained liquid should be clear.
6. Pour the grains into the vegetables. Pour boiling water over it all and carefully level it out. If necessary, add liquid again. It should cover the other ingredients by 1 cm. Add 10-20 g of ghee there. As well as salt, pepper and spices that you consider suitable for fish and rice.
7. Increase the heat to maximum and wait for the water to boil. Next, cover the dish with a lid, reduce the flame to low and leave for 20-25 minutes.
Then turn it off and let the rice stand for another 5-7 minutes under the closed lid. Transfer to a serving plate and serve the rice as a side dish with fried or stewed fish.
Step-by-step recipe for cooking in a frying pan
This option is interesting because here we will fry the grains. Have you heard of this method? So here it is. Here is a step-by-step recipe for rice in a frying pan.
To prepare this side dish, you can use any variety available to you. Believe me, everything will work out the first time. It will come out delicious, beautiful and aromatic. For this recipe you will need the following ingredients:
- Rice - glass
- Vegetable oil (preferably refined) – 3 tablespoons
- Turmeric – 1 teaspoon
- Paprika – 1 teaspoon
- Fine salt - to taste
- Water – 2 glasses
How to cook:
Rinse the cereal thoroughly until the draining water becomes clear.
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat thoroughly. Then reduce the heat to medium.
Place the washed rice in a frying pan and mix with oil.
When the grains interact with hot oil, they will begin to become cloudy. Don't be scared! Continue to fry and you will see that the rice will soon lighten again.
We enrich the composition with spices and salt. In the photo you can see that turmeric gave our rice a beautiful, golden color. Mix the ingredients and add cool water.
Let the rice simmer uncovered until almost all the liquid has evaporated.
Reduce the flame to the lowest setting and cover the pan with a lid. Continue frying for another 20 minutes.
Remove the dishes from the stove. And let the side dish stand for another 7-8 minutes under the lid. That's all ready: serve.
How to cook tasty short grain rice
It is generally accepted that round grain cereals are not the best option for a crumbly side dish. They are more often used for cooking soups, making puddings and cereals. However, such a one-sided approach is partly unfair. Well, first of all, you can’t put everyone under the same brush. And, secondly, if you cook it wisely, the dish will taste excellent and the grains will not stick together.
Do you want to learn how to cook short grain rice as a side dish so that it is tasty and fluffy? Then be sure to watch this video.
By the way, you can cook this product in a slow cooker. In this case, I advise you to cook the cereal with garlic and water. Cooking time for the “Porridge” program is 30 minutes. And after the beep, remove the clove: it has already given up all its flavor. Pour in a little olive oil and stir gently.
Side dish with vegetables for cutlets
For this dish you can use any rice of your choice. However, do not rush to pour water over the cereal. Make sure the kernels are not yellowed.
If yellowness is still visible, throw away the product.
Cooking it and subsequently eating it is dangerous to health. The fact is that yellowness on the grains is a sign that they were stored in conditions of high humidity before packaging. Fungi have managed to grow on the nucleoli and produce harmful microtoxins.
We've sorted out the rice. As for vegetables, the choice is huge. This could be onions, carrots, bell peppers, broccoli, green peas and so on. In general, experiment, and then post in the comments about the results of your discoveries. I bring to your attention the following recipe with delicious photos:
- Rice – 1 cup
- Onions – 2 heads
- Bell pepper – 1 fruit
- Zucchini - half a fruit
- Carrots – 1-2 pieces
- Garlic – 3 cloves
- Vegetable oil – 5 tablespoons
- Red and black pepper - a little
- Turmeric, paprika, chopped coriander and dried mint - to taste
- Salt - a couple of teaspoons
- Water – 2 glasses
- Green onions - a couple of feathers
How we will cook:
1. Peel the onions, carrots and garlic. We remove the stalk and seeds from the pepper, and also cut off the protruding tail from the zucchini. We wash everything and dry it slightly. Cut the onion, zucchini and pepper into small cubes. We grate the carrots on a regular grater, and chop the garlic cloves into slices.
2. Heat a frying pan with two tablespoons of oil. Add the onion here and fry it until it turns light golden brown. Add carrots to it and continue frying for 3 minutes.
3. Add pepper, zucchini and garlic there. Mix everything and remove the pan from the stove.
4. Pour the remaining oil into a clean frying pan, heat it and add spices. They should cook for about a minute. Thanks to this heat treatment, they will give out their aromas to the oil as much as possible.
5. Wash the rice thoroughly. Place it in a colander to remove excess liquid. Add it to the oil with spices, fry for 2-3 minutes, stirring it very intensively. Combine rice and vegetables, mix everything and level it out.
6. Add salt to hot water and stir. Pour this solution into the frying pan.
Remember: to cook crumbly cereal, it should never be stirred! Otherwise you'll just end up with a viscous, sticky mass. You can mix the already prepared side dish.
7. Cover the vessel with a lid, reduce the heat to low and allow the grains and vegetables to cook until cooked. This may take about 20 minutes.
Place on a plate and sprinkle with chopped green onions. Serve vegetables and rice as a side dish with cutlets. It is advisable that the temperature of the side dish and cutlets be the same. If one is hot and the other is cold, you will not be able to appreciate the taste of the food.
Boil steamed rice in a saucepan
I noticed that there is an opinion that steamed cereal cooks faster. It is unclear where such confidence comes from. Only this point of view, I tell you, is not justified by anything. This rice takes half an hour or even more to prepare. About the same as, for example, Basmati. However, this product also has significant advantages. So, it has an amazing nutty aroma and does not stick together even after repeated heating.
As for the utensils for cooking, here I would like to immediately dot all the “i’s”. Enameled pans are not suitable for rice. The grains in them will stick together during heat treatment. In addition, after such a dinner, you will still have to scrape the burnt grains from the walls and bottom of the container for a long time. Not a pleasant prospect, right?
To avoid such disappointment when preparing the side dish, carefully follow the directions in the quick and easy recipe below.
What products are needed:
- Steamed rice – 1 cup
- Water – 2 glasses
- Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons
- Fine salt – 1 teaspoon
Cook the side dish:
We wash the cereal several times. Focus on the fact that clean water should drain. Afterwards we put it in a colander to get rid of excess liquid.
If time permits, I recommend soaking the rice. To do this, fill it with cold water and leave for a couple of hours, and then rinse several times. This procedure will help speed up the process of cooking cereals.
Fill the cereal with water and place the pan on the stove. Cover the container with a lid and bring its contents to a boil. As soon as bubbles appear on the surface, add oil and salt.
Cook on the lowest heat for 20 minutes. If desired, you can add any seasonings and spices.
Transfer the side dish to a plate and serve with any meat, fish or vegetable dishes.
Brown rice is considered the healthiest. It is also known as brown. However, such cereals cost an order of magnitude more than the usual white ones. And in order to prepare it correctly, you need to know some subtleties.
Firstly, the product must be soaked (it is advisable to soak it for 5 to 8 hours). Secondly, you will have to cook the “needles” for at least half an hour, or even an hour.
But it's all worth it: as a result, you will prepare a delicious, aromatic side dish containing a huge variety of healthy vitamins and mineral compounds.
You can also experiment with spices. Traditionally, the liquid in which the cereal is boiled is salted. But why not add a couple of bay leaves and a few black peppercorns? It will turn out amazing. Do you like spices? Then throw in a little rosemary or a pinch of other dried herbs.
To enrich the taste of the side dish, you can cook it in broth. Suitable for both vegetable and meat. The easiest way is to add a diluted bouillon cube to hot water.
Only in this case, be careful with salt, otherwise you will over-salt.
If you want the rice to be snow-white, add milk to the water when cooking it. Focus on a 1 to 1 ratio.
But if desired, the dish can be tinted. Saffron, turmeric or curry will come to the rescue with this. This is the kind of rice served in Thailand and India.
Agree that it is important not only to prepare a tasty side dish, but also to serve it beautifully. There are many options, I will share only a few options:
- You can compact a small amount of porridge (per person) into a round bowl and turn it over onto a serving plate. Decorate the top of the rice “hill” with sprigs of herbs, and place a piece of meat, fish or cutlet next to it.
- Place the boiled cereal in a mound, sprinkle with hard cheese grated on a coarse grater or pour over sauce, say garlic or tomato.
I am sure that today’s tips on how to cook rice as a side dish will help you not get confused when you are faced with such a task. The food will turn out great. And in order not to lose the recipes, click on the social network buttons.
I wish you culinary inspiration and say goodbye until the next delicacies! Bye bye.
Step 1. Cut the fish.
I love cooking with fillet because even small children can easily eat this dish without fear of choking on a bone. So, take the cod fillet, cut it into pieces, add salt and pepper and set it aside. You can sprinkle the fish with the prepared mixture of herbs. Yes, I almost forgot. Let's turn on the oven!Step 2. Prepare the frying.
Wash the carrots, peel them, and grate them on a coarse grater. Peel the onion and cut it into half rings or smaller ones. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry the onion. When it browns a little, add carrots to the onion. Sauté carrots and onions for 10 minutes. Step 3. Boil the rice.
Rinse the rice well in cold water. Pour water into the pan, add half a teaspoon of salt and add rice. Please note that the ratio of water and rice is 2:1, respectively. Bring the water to a boil and reduce the heat. Cook for about 10 minutes. The rice should be half-cooked, as it will be cooked together with the fish. Then drain the water by covering the pan with a lid or putting the rice in a sieve to drain the water. Step 4. Fill out the baking dish.
Take a baking dish. Place the fried onions and carrots on the bottom, leveling it evenly. Place pieces of fish on the vegetables. On top of the fish is boiled rice until half cooked. Pour hot water on top so that the water covers the rice by 1 cm. Add a little salt on top and place the pan in an oven heated to 200 degrees. After 20 minutes, the water should evaporate and the rice should swell. You can take out the mold and grease the top with mayonnaise and bake again for about 10 minutes. The appearance of an appetizing crust is guaranteed! The dish is ready, turn off the oven and leave the fish and rice for another 5-7 minutes. Step 5. Serve the fish with rice to the table.
Remove the finished dish from the oven. Let cool slightly and cut into portions in the pan. This dish goes well with white wine. Bon appetit! It is good to serve a salad of fresh vegetables with fish and rice.
After cutting, you can sprinkle a little lemon juice on the fish.
Fish loves fresh dill. You can sprinkle chopped dill on pieces of fish in the pan before baking.
Irina Demyanchuk
Fish with rice in the oven is a great dish for the whole family for lunch and even dinner. You won’t gain excess weight from eating this kind of food, of course, if you don’t top the finished dish with all sorts of sauces. After all, it is prepared without adding unnecessary fat, and it’s good for children to feast on fish.
Recipe for fish stuffed with rice and baked in the oven
There are many options for preparing baked fish; some recipes are simply amazing in their scope and complexity of execution. But not all housewives can repeat some unusual method in their kitchen, so you need to start with something simple. To do this, let's look at a recipe that even girls with little cooking experience can recreate.
To prepare you need:
- Whole fish carcass of your choice, weighing 1–1.5 kg;
- rice – 300 g (can be varied depending on the number of people);
- large onion;
- mayonnaise or sour cream;
- spices and salt at your discretion.
To make your baked fish tasty and juicy, follow the following instructions:
- Clean the fish and rinse thoroughly. Make longitudinal cuts on the carcass, and then rub with your favorite spices. You can use a little citric acid, it will “corrode” the small seeds. Place the fish on a baking sheet;
- Rinse the rice thoroughly and boil in salted water until half cooked;
- Remove the skins from the onion, chop finely and fry;
- Mix rice with onions, add salt and pepper. Stuff the fish with the resulting mixture. If all the rice and onions won’t fit, you can distribute the food on a baking dish;
- Lubricate the fish thoroughly with sour cream or mayonnaise and you can cook for 60 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
In an hour, the stuffed fish will be ready; you can serve it with fresh vegetables and pickles. By the way, in this recipe the dish can not only be baked, but also be tightly wrapped in foil.
Recipe for cooking fish fillet with rice in the oven
Let's consider another option for cooking fish in the oven.
For the dish you will need:
- fillet of any favorite fish (cod fish is excellent) – 1 kg;
- rice – 300 g;
- carrots and large onions - 1 pc.;
- sour cream, if you are watching your figure, then take it with a minimum percentage of fat content - 100 g;
- boiling water – 600 ml;
- vegetable oil – 3 tbsp. l.;
- herbs of your choice, for example, dill or parsley - 1 bunch;
- salt and spices to taste.
Let's go through the step-by-step process of preparing fish with rice:
- Remove the skins from the onion and chop it as finely as possible;
- Wash the carrots, peel and chop them in a shredder;
- Add 2 tbsp to a hot frying pan. l. butter and fry the carrots and onions until beautifully golden brown. Cooking time is about 10 minutes;
- Take a baking sheet with high sides and grease it with 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil. Place pre-washed rice on it;
- Wash the fillet of the selected fish, cut into large pieces and spread over the rice. Add salt and spices to the dish to your taste;
- Place fried vegetables on the fish: onions and carrots;
- If you are going to use fresh herbs in a dish, now is the time to add them. To do this, wash the plants and chop them very finely. Sprinkle the dish with herbs;
- Dissolve sour cream in boiling water, add salt and spices to taste and pour the resulting mixture over the rice and fish;
- Cover the top of the baking sheet with foil so that there are no holes, otherwise the liquid will evaporate and the cod fillet or any other selected fish will turn out dry and inedible;
- Place the dish in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 40 minutes.
Recipe for cooking fish in the oven with rice and vegetables
Let's consider another option for preparing fish with vegetables and adding cheese.
The dish requires the following ingredients:
- red fish (preferably taken in one piece) – 500-700 g;
- rice – 250 g;
- large carrots, large onion, tomato - 1 pc.;
- hard cheese - grated 1.5 cups;
- mayonnaise or sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.;
- fresh dill or parsley;
- favorite seasonings, salt.
The sequence of creating this culinary masterpiece is as follows:
- Wash the fish, remove the skin and excess bones, salt and roll in your favorite spices. Place the prepared piece on a baking sheet, lightly greased with butter; if you wish, you can cut the fish, but this is not necessary;
- Boil the rice in salted water, drain in a colander, and allow excess liquid to drain. Spread the dried cereal in an even layer over the fish;
- Place mayonnaise or sour cream in a separate bowl, add chopped onion and grated carrots. Mix everything carefully. Spread the resulting sauce over a layer of rice;
- Sprinkle cheese on top;
- Wash the tomato, cut into thin rings and spread over the cheese;
- Place the dish in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes, then remove the baking sheet and sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs. Then let the fish brew for another 15 minutes in the oven.
After this, you can serve the dish to the table. By the way, some housewives call this dish a casserole with fish and rice in the oven. This name is not without logic, since thanks to the cheese crust, the result is a truly tasty and juicy casserole.
