Despite the fact that the pike is a freshwater fish, its flesh is also rich in nutritious elements, like the flesh of marine fish. True, it is worth noting that from the last pike differs in its diet and the presence of a large number of bones. Perhaps both of these factors have contributed to the fact that this fish is less likely to appear on our tables, but we want to restore its reputation and devote this stuff to pike recipes in the oven in foil.
Pike baked entirely in foil in the oven
Ingredients:
- pike carcass (medium) - 1 pc;
- lemon - 2 pieces;
- garlic cloves - 1 piece;
- onion - 130 g;
- a handful of dill greens;
- butter - 65 g.
Preparation
Before baking the pike in the oven in foil, gut the carcass and rinse it. Divide the onion and one of the lemons onto thick rings and distribute them on a baking sheet. From the remaining lemon squeeze the juice and combine it with the greens of dill, garlic and melted butter. Season the fish with a pinch of salt inside and out, put the dill in the abdominal cavity. Cover the pan with a pike with a foil sheet and leave it for 25 minutes at 190 degrees.
Recipe for pike in foil in oven
As we managed to notice earlier, the pike is a dry fish, which is better served with an abundance of sauce or bake with a juicy filling, like the one that we decided to offer you in this recipe consisting of mushrooms and onions.
Ingredients:
- pike carcass - 1.8 kg;
- onion - 85 g;
- garlic teeth - 2 pieces;
- oyster mushrooms - 820 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- olive oil - 35 ml.
Preparation
After cleaning the fish, take on a simple filling, consisting of chopped chicken and onions, which should be rescued together. When the excess moisture from the mushrooms evaporates, add the chopped garlic and lemon juice into the frying pan. Fill the abdominal cavity of the fish with the stuffing and fix the abdominal walls with toothpicks. Leave the fish to bake at 190 degrees for about an hour, first covering with a foil sheet, for the first 40 minutes, and then leaving the remaining 20 to brown.
Pike in foil in oven with potatoes
As with the rest of the fish, along with the pike under the foil sheet, you can bake a variety of vegetable side dishes, for example, potato tubers.
Ingredients:
- pike carcass (medium) - 1 pc;
- a bunch of dill;
- onion - 210 g;
- mayonnaise - 45 g;
- slices of lemon - 4-6 pieces;
- potato tubers - 470 g.
Preparation
Choose the smallest potato tubers, sprinkle them with oil and sprinkle abundantly. Pike the carcass also sprinkle salt and fill the abdomen with a mixture of mayonnaise, dill and onion rings. Top the fish with salt and lay the lemon slices. Laying the pike on a baking tray and spreading potatoes around it, cover the fish with a foil sheet and place it to prepare. How much baked pike in foil in the oven is determined by the size of the fish itself, so a medium-sized carcass is usually cooked for no more than half an hour at 190 degrees.
Pike in oven in foil with sour cream
The problem of cooking in foil is that the fish under it is not browned, but we will fix this situation with the help of a simple sauce and baking technology.
Ingredients:
- pike - 680 g;
- champignons - 410 g;
- carrots - 65 g;
- sour cream - 95 ml;
- capers - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- tomato paste - 35 g.
Preparation
Gut and rinse the abdominal cavity of the fish. Spare the mushrooms along with the carrots until the mushroom moisture evaporates. Season the filling, connect with capers. Combine the tomato paste with sour cream sauce and mix the mushrooms with carrots with 2/3 of the sauce. Put the pike in the oven for 30 minutes at 180, covering the baking sheet with foil. 7 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil, and pike the grease with the remaining sauce and allow to brown.