Mackerel on an Onion Pillow
40 min. Recipe Yield:
2-4 servings Difficulty:
Medium recipe
Mackerel on an onion pillow - a recipe for cooking a dish of Turkish cuisine, this cooking of mackerel is very interesting. Mackerel is laid out not in a pan, but on an onion, which makes it possible to steam the mackerel and gives it flavor and softness. This method of cooking mackerel can be used by people who are not recommended to eat fried foods. When frying, the juice from the mackerel flows onto the onion and thus prevents it from frying too much.
Recipe Ingredients
Cooking Recipe
To cook the recipe of Turkish cuisine mackerel on an onion pillow, wash the mackerel, remove the head, skeleton and bones. It is not necessary to remove the skin from the fish. The fillet can be cut in half, or left whole. Grind the spices in a mortar with salt, if there is no mortar, you can use ground spices or grind them in a coffee grinder. Grease prepared mackerel with spices. Peel the onion and cut into rings 1 cm thick. Put the chopped onion in a preheated pan with vegetable oil and salt, so the onion will better release the juice. When the onion darkens slightly, carefully turn it over and put the mackerel fillet on top of it.
Cover the pan with a lid and simmer over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Then pour in milk or cream and simmer under the lid for another 15 minutes. Ready mackerel can be served with boiled potatoes, pasta or fresh vegetables