Chum salmon is a low-fat red fish with few bones. It goes well with various creamy sauces. Cream makes the taste of chum salmon even more tender. Below are several options for cooking chum salmon in a creamy sauce.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
You can choose a whole carcass of chum salmon and cut it into pieces or buy steaks. When buying a whole fish, you should choose a carcass with red gills, without turbidity in the eyes and not having an unpleasant odor and stickiness. Cream is taken with a fat content of 10–20%, and they can be replaced with sour cream.
Important! You should refuse to buy fish with green or slimy gills, lagging and damaged skin, dry fins and tail.
Recipes for chum salmon in cream sauce
According to the recipes below, you can easily cook chum salmon in a creamy sauce in the oven or in a pan. Dishes do not take a lot of time to cook, but they turn out to be very tasty.
Oven baked steaks
420 g 25 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash the fillet and lay in foil.
- Salt the fish and sprinkle with ground cardamom.
- Make high sides in foil.
- Pour the cream onto the fish and put a piece of butter on it.
- Put the dish in the oven, heated to + 180 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
In the pan
1300 g 20 minutes
spices for fish
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Salt the pieces of fish.
- Heat the pan, put the steaks in it and immediately pour the cream. Sprinkle with spices.
- Stew chum on a quiet fire 10 min.
- At this time, grate the cheese on a fine grater, and when the time is right, sprinkle them with steaks.
- Cover the pan and simmer the fish for another 5 minutes. until the cheese is completely melted.
In creamy tomato sauce
1350 g 60 minutes
ground pepper mixture
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Peel the steaks and put in a baking dish. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Melt butter in a saucepan. When it melts, add a spoonful of flour, brown it until brownish, stirring.
Then add sour cream to the stewpan, salt and pepper. Mix well and let the sour cream combine with all the other ingredients in the saucepan.
Add tomato paste to the sauce and mix well.
Remove the finished sauce from the heat and put about 3 tbsp. l for every steak. Garnish each one on top with three olives.
Put the keta form in the oven preheated to + 200 ° С for 40 min. In 5 minutes sprinkle steaks with grated cheese until the end of cooking.
Peel the steaks and put in a baking dish. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Melt butter in a saucepan. When it melts, add a spoonful of flour, brown it until brownish, stirring.
Then add sour cream to the stewpan, salt and pepper. Mix well and let the sour cream combine with all the other ingredients in the saucepan.
Add tomato paste to the sauce and mix well.
Remove the finished sauce from the heat and put about 3 tbsp. l for every steak. Garnish each one on top with three olives.
Put the keta form in the oven preheated to + 200 ° С for 40 min. In 5 minutes sprinkle steaks with grated cheese until the end of cooking.Video recipe
Did you know? Sour cream - a fermented milk product obtained from cream. This is an exclusively Slavic product, which most other countries found out only in the 19th century. Residents of Britain and Finland also call it "Russian cream".
In creamy nut sauce
1480 g 70 minutes
walnut kernels
100 g
sunflower oil
2 tbsp. l
ground black pepper
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Line the form with foil and grease it with vegetable oil, and then place the steaks.
- Cut a quarter of the lemon and squeeze the juice into pieces of chum. Salt and pepper.
- Put cherry tomatoes around the fish.
- Wash and cut rosemary in 3-4 cm lengths, lay them on top of fish steaks.
- Pour steaks and tomatoes with vegetable oil.
- Put in the oven and bake at + 180 ° С until cooked (40-50 min.).
- Peel the garlic and wash. Cut the teeth into thin plates.
- Wash, dry and chop dill as finely as possible. Do not use coarse stems.
- Put chopped garlic in a bowl, add walnuts, cream, salt and pepper. Grind everything with a blender. Add dill to the thickly sauce and mix well.
- Remove the prepared steaks from the oven and serve with creamy nut sauce.
Video recipe
With mushrooms
1790 g 60 minutes
sunflower oil
2 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Salt steaks on all sides.
- Peel, wash, and finely chop the onion.
- Wash and cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
- Heat the pan and brown the chopped onion on it.
- Add mushrooms to the onion and continue frying until cooked.
- Salt and sprinkle the mushrooms with spices, pour in the cream and mix. Simmer the sauce for another 2-3 minutes, without bringing to a boil.
- Put a little sauce on the bottom of the baking dish and place the chum salmon steaks on top of it. Spread the remaining sauce over the fish.
- Bake chum salmon in the oven at a temperature of + 200 ° С for 30–40 min.
Did you know? When there were no separators, cream was obtained after draining the milk by a tap located at the bottom of the container. This is where the name of the product comes from.
Chum salmon with creamy sauce is tender, juicy and delicious. It is well served with a side dish of potatoes, rice or sliced with fresh vegetables.
