Now it is not a problem to buy ready-made smoked or salted fish. In supermarkets and in the market there are products for every taste. But it turns out, it's not difficult to cook it yourself. At the same time, the taste will be much better, and besides, you will be assured of its quality and freshness for 100%. How to pick up mackerel in a brine at home, read below.
Salting mackerel in brine pieces
Ingredients:
- mackerel carcasses freshly frozen - 3 pcs .;
- cold boiled water - 500 ml;
- sugar - 15 g;
- common salt - 60 g;
- cumin - 1 teaspoon;
- laurel leaf - 2-3 pcs .;
- black peppercorns;
- coriander;
- cloves ;
- pepper fragrant.
Preparation
For pickling, you can take both fresh fish and frozen fish. But in the latter case the carcass should be completely unfrozen at room temperature. So, let's start preparing the brine for the mackerel. In the pot, pour in the water and put it on the fire. After boiling, add salt, sugar, spices. Fire turn off, and leave the pot to cool. And at this time we are engaged in the preparation of fish. Rinse it under running water, cut off the head, tail and rinse again. We cut the fish into pieces. And, it does not matter what their size is. You can even just divide the fish into 2 fillets. Mackerel very well absorbs salt, so the fish will salivate quickly. So, pieces of mackerel are placed in a jar or any other container and poured with a cold brine. We also send spices from the pickle. We close the jar with a lid and put the clock on the refrigerator in the refrigerator. You can serve this fish by sprinkling it with chopped green or onion, and sprinkling with fragrant vegetable oil.
Salted mackerel in brine
Ingredients:
- mackerel freshly frozen - 2 pcs .;
- water - 1 liter;
- salt - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- bay leaves - 5 pcs .;
- cloves - 5 pcs .;
- sweet pepper - 5 pcs.
Preparation
We defrost the mackerel, first taking it from the freezer. In a saucepan pour a liter of water, you can immediately add all the spices. Then we bring the brine to a boil and boil down minutes 2. After that, we set it aside to cool down to a temperature of about 40 degrees. And at this time we are engaged in fish - we cut off the tail, head, we clean the insides, and cut the carcass by pieces 2.5 cm wide. Now we take a 2-liter jar and add pieces of fish to it. When the brine has cooled, add vinegar and pour fish into it. Leave the clock at room temperature for 12-15. All, after this time, an excellent fragrant slightly salted mackerel is ready! We serve it by watering it with vegetable oil and sprinkling it with onion, even though it is green, even though it is bulbous. A great addition to it will be boiled potatoes.
Mackerel in tea brine
Ingredients:
- frozen mackerel - 3 pcs .;
- welding of black tea - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- salt;
- sugar.
Preparation
We unfreeze the fish, but in no case do we use a microwave oven for these purposes. Fish should be thawed only in a natural way. Then we clean the carcasses, cut off the head, remove the insides and thoroughly rinse. Now we are preparing a pickle: pour dry tea of black tea with 1 liter of boiling water. When the mass cools, add salt, sugar and stir well. In the prepared brine we lower the fish and send it to the refrigerator of the day for 4. Then we take the mackerel from the marinade, rinse it and hang it overnight in the sink so that the glasses are superfluous. And the next morning the delicious fish will be completely ready for use. In appearance and taste she is very similar to smoked . Bon Appetit!