Mackerel is a frequent guest in our diet. True, some argue that such a fish is only good smoked or in brine. In fact, there are different options for its preparation, but the most delicious is a mackerel baked in the oven with vegetables.

Baked mackerel in the oven with vegetables on a baking sheet

Mackerel is a beneficial, fatty and delicious marine creature.

Such fish is cooked in different ways, but it is baking that will help preserve the lion's share of its beneficial qualities.

But the fact is that on the shelves of stores it is rare to meet fresh mackerel, and its price will not suit all buyers. Usually, after catch, this fish is immediately sent to freeze or processed, as its fatty meat is rapidly oxidized.

Ingredients for a couple of large carcasses of mackerel:

  • mushrooms (champignons or any forest ones will do) - 270 g;
  • zucchini;
  • bulb;
  • sweet fleshy pepper;
  • three tomatoes;
  • carrot;
  • celery;
  • garlic - three cloves;
  • squeezed juice of one lemon;
  • parsley, olive oil.

Cooking method:

  1. On prepared carcasses of fish, we make several shallow cuts along the diagonal.
  2. Rub them abundantly with a mixture of oil, pepper, lemon juice and salt.
  3. We cut mushrooms arbitrarily and fry together with garlic until soft.
  4. Peeled tomatoes, as well as pepper and zucchini, cut into cubes, onions - half rings, slices - carrots and celery.
  5. Stew vegetables. First, cook carrots with onions, then take turns spreading zucchini, pepper and celery. Last are the tomatoes.
  6. Add chopped garlic and parsley, spices and mushrooms to the vegetables, mix everything and put in a baking dish.
  7. We put pickled mackerels on a vegetable “pillow” and send them to bake for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° С

Foil roasting recipe

Mackerel stuffed with vegetables is very tasty and satisfying. The peculiarity of the recipe is that we will bake the fish in foil, and we will cut the mackerel for stuffing along the back.

Tasty recipe:pickledmackerel at home

 

To prepare the dish we will need a large carcass of fish, a clove of garlic, a little oil, three tablespoons of lemon juice, as well as carrots, onions, sour cream and spices.

Cooking method:

  1. We take the carcass of a mackerel and use a sharp knife to make an incision from head to tail. We take out the gills and the ridge together with the bones, then we wash and dry the fish.
  2. The crushed garlic is mixed with lemon juice and the resulting mixture is well rubbed the fish inside and out.
  3. While the workpiece is pickling, we will take chopped onions, grated carrots and fry them for several minutes.
  4. We cover the baking sheet with paper, lay out the fish, open the “pocket” and put the vegetable filling in it. Soak the carcass with sour cream on top, wrap it in foil and bake in the oven at 190 degrees 30 minutes.

With cheese

Despite the fact that mackerel does not apply to dietary products, it is worth to include it in your diet. Fish meat is easily absorbed by our body, so it can be cooked even by children. Moreover, her meat is very tender, soft, practically has no bones, so many cooks prefer to cook this particular fish with vegetables and cheese.

Ingredients:

  • two small mackerels;
  • mushrooms - 180 g;
  • two carrots;
  • two onions;
  • clove of garlic;
  • sour cream - half a glass;
  • hard cheese - 180 g;
  • spices, oil.

Cooking method:

  1. We cut off the heads of mackerel, make a cut along the abdomen and take out all the insides. Next, the fish should be washed, dried and seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs.
  2. We chop the onion in half rings, chop the carrots on a grater, and cut the mushrooms into thin strips. Fry vegetables and mushrooms, adding chopped garlic in the end.
  3. On the baking sheet we line the foil, spread the fish with the abdomen up and open it like a butterfly.
  4. We spread the vegetable filling with mushrooms on the fish, grease the blanks with sour cream and sprinkle with cheese chips. Put in the oven for 25 minutes.

Oven stuffed fish with vegetables

All lovers of fish dishes will definitely like our recipe for baked mackerel with vegetables. To prepare the dish you will need a minimum of effort and time, but the result will exceed all your expectations.

Mackerel goes well with various vegetables, mushrooms, herbs and marinades.

Ingredients:

  • large carcass of mackerel;
  • garlic - three cloves;
  • hard cheese - 100 g;
  • carrot;
  • onion;
  • sweet fleshy pepper;
  • champignons - 200 g;
  • vegetable and olive oil;
  • a spoonful of fat sour cream;
  • salt, pepper, marjoram.

Cooking method:

  1. We take mackerel and along the back we make a cut no more than one centimeter deep. We take out the spine, costal bones and all the insides. Rub the carcass with salt, pepper and sprinkle with lemon juice. Then rub with chopped garlic along with olive oil.
  2. Pass the carrots through a coarse grater, cut the onions and peppers into cubes, and the mushrooms in small pieces.
  3. We alternate products. First, onions and carrots, then put the pepper and after a few minutes spread the mushrooms and sour cream. Simmer the resulting mixture for a couple of minutes, then add salt, pepper and marjoram, turn off the heat and cool.
  4. Put the fish on the baking sheet covered with foil, stuff it, sprinkle it with cheese and send it to the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 190 ° C. To prevent the cheese from drying out, apply a mayonnaise net on it.

Cooking in a baking sleeve

Mackerel can be prepared in different ways - stew or fry, but it is better to bake it in the sleeve. So the meat is juicy, due to the fact that the juice does not evaporate, but remains in the sleeve.Add spicy herbs to the fish, and you get delicious baked mackerel with potatoes and vegetables.

Ingredients:

  • large carcass of mackerel;
  • two onions;
  • two carrots;
  • salt, pepper, Italian herbs;
  • three potato tubers;
  • dill and parsley.

Cooking method:

  1. First, pickle mackerel in spices, flavored with salt, pepper and aromatic Italian herbs.
  2. Onions can be cut into half rings, carrots and potatoes into cubes. Mix vegetables with herbs, salt and oil.
  3. We take a sleeve, put fish in it along with vegetables and put in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 30 - 35 minutes.
  4. Sprinkle baked fish with chopped dill and parsley.

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How to bake delicious mackerel with vegetables slices

Such a fish as mackerel is combined with almost all vegetables, but we want to offer an original recipe - mackerel baked in foil in French. It is cooked with three types of onions and served in the best restaurants in France.

 

To prepare the “French” fish you will need two carcasses of mackerel, a stem of leek, onions and shallots. And also a couple of tablespoons of butter and half a glass of non-sour cream.

Cooking method:

  1. First of all, we will prepare the fish, we will need its loin. To do this, cut the carcasses reproach and free them from the ridge and bones. Sprinkle the fillet with salt and set aside.
  2. Onions and shallots are finely chopped, and the leek is cut into rings.
  3. In a pan, melt the butter, in which we fry for four minutes onions and shallots.
  4. Cover the baking sheet with foil, spread the mackerel fillet, distribute the fried shallots and onions on top, and sprinkle with leek rings on top. Salt the workpieces and grease with sour cream.
  5. We wrap the carcasses and bake in the oven first 30 minutes, and then free the fish from the foil and cook another 10 minutes.

Under the vegetable marinade

If you do not know what dish you can surprise your loved ones or guests, then take a mackerel and a recipe from the famous chef Jamie Oliver. Its cooking method is attractive because the fish is first marinated in herbs, and then fried and baked under the marinade.

Ingredients:

  • mackerel;
  • two cloves of garlic;
  • a spoon of paprika;
  • a pinch of cayenne pepper;
  • eight tablespoons of olive oil;
  • a spoonful of soy sauce;
  • tsp mustard;
  • lemon juice, herbs.

Cooking method:

  1. We cut the carcass of fish into two parts, remove the spine, bones and clean it of a black film that gives a taste of bitterness.
  2. We proceed to the preparation of the marinade. For it we take four tablespoons of olive oil, add the chopped cloves of garlic, lemon juice, soy sauce and all other seasonings, which are listed in the list of ingredients. We also include chopped dill.
  3. In the resulting aromatic marinade, put the mackerel fillet, tightly close and leave for 40 minutes.
  4. Dry the pickled fish and fry on both sides until golden brown.
  5. We transfer the carcass to the baking sheet covered with foil, pour it with marinade and bake for 15 minutes.

The key to a tasty, juicy and healthy dish is the proper defrosting of mackerel.

First, you need to put the fish in the refrigerator for several hours, putting it on the very top shelf, and then finish the process at room temperature. If you are frightened by the specific smell of mackerel, then before cooking, hold it in a marinade of spices and lemon.

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