Fried Marinated Smelt - A Step By Step Recipe With A Photo

This little fish that smells like cucumbers is good right out of the pan. When it cools down, it loses its taste, and with this recipe you can cook a new and tasty dish out of it.

Cooking description:

This fish cannot be confused with any other when it is fresh: it smells like cucumbers. Very tasty smelt when hot, straight out of the pan. And when it cools, it smells like fish oil, and not everyone likes this aroma. If you still have fried smelt left over, I'll show you how to make it delicious. The recipe is very simple, adjust the taste of the marinade for yourself. You can add aromatic spices (cloves, allspice, etc.) to it. Well, and how to cook fried marinated smelt (basic recipe), you will learn right here and now.

Purpose: For lunch / For dinner

Main ingredient: Fish and seafood / Smelt

Ingredients:

• Smelt - 600-700 Grams (peeled)
• Wheat flour - 4-5 Art. spoons
• Salt - 1 Teaspoon (0.5 - salt the fish, 0.5 - for the marinade)
• Sugar - 1 Teaspoon (no slide)
• Vinegar 9% - 2 Teaspoons
• Water - 250 Milliliters
• Vegetable oil - 100 Milliliters
• Bay leaf - 1-2 pieces
• Onion - 1 Piece (large onion, optional)

Servings: 3-4

How to cook "Marinated fried smelt"

1. Here she is - a smelt fish. Defrosting. 2. Cut off the head of the smelt and clean it from the entrails. Rinse thoroughly and salt, let it stand for 10-15 minutes. 3. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil over a medium-high heat. Dip each fish in flour. 4. And fry until beautiful golden brown. The smelt tastes right at this moment: hot, straight from the pan. 5. Peel the onion and cut it into quarters. Dip the onion in flour and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. 6. Attention! The onion turns out to be very tasty, and there is a possibility that it will be eaten before it reaches the fish:)