Juicy and tender pink salmon fillet will replenish your diet with vitamins A and D, easily digestible proteins, omega-3 acids useful for heart function. With the regular inclusion of fish in the diet, you will maintain the body in excellent condition. And for this, the article has some simple recipes on how to cook pink salmon in a slow cooker.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Regardless of what they will do with the fish - bake, stew or fry, it is advisable to buy fresh. Ice cream, after a couple of freezing cycles, quickly loses its taste.
Important! Cloudy eyes and bad smell — signs of spoiled fish. No matter how much it is processed, the risk of poisoning will remain.
When buying, it is important to remember the following:
- ordinary fresh pink salmon weighs 800–1000 g;
- her belly is pink, flat;
- scales - shiny, not exfoliating, without damage;
- gills - light red;
- the smell is fresh.
Recipes for making pink salmon in a slow cooker
Cooks note a specific, dry consistency of pink salmon meat after frying. In order to eliminate this drawback, cooks suggest using recipes in which a multicooker is used for cooking. This will make the consistency of stewed steaks more juicy and soft. Ready-made tasty fish can be combined with a wide variety of side dishes: rice, potatoes, mushrooms and cheese. It would be a good idea to stew pink salmon using various sauces - tomato, lemon, ginger, cream, to give the dish a new taste and aroma.
For a couple
400-500 g15 minutes
seasoning for fish
1/2 tsp
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Slices of fillet must be well pepper, salt and sprinkle with seasoning.
- Fill a bowl of a double boiler with 2 liters of fresh water.
- Put prepared pieces of fish on the net and snap the lid.
- Now you need to select the cooking mode and time. In this case, it is “Steaming” for a quarter of an hour.
- Turn off the multicooker after the signal, and remove the fish.
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On steam
Did you know? Salmon become orange-red due to the carotenoids they contain. They enter the body of the fish along with the feed they eat. — shrimp and krill.
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Royal
Did you know? Farmed-grown salmon have a paler shade of meat than wild ones. This is due to the fact that the proportion of crustaceans in the artificial diet is much smaller than in the natural environment.
With sour cream and vegetables
1.5 kg60 minutes
turnip onion (large)
2 pcs.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pour a small amount of sunflower oil into the bottom of the prepared bowl.
- Peel the onion, cut into cubes.
- Washed and peeled carrots should be grated on a coarse grater or chopped with a vegetable cutter.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut into slices. Lay vegetables in a slow cooker in layers, starting with onions, then spread carrots and tomatoes.
- Cut the prepared fish fillet into pieces and lay with the last layer.
- Pepper and salt, sprinkle with Provencal herbs.
- Top with sour cream.
- Sprinkle with fresh herbs on top.
- Close the lid and set the cooking mode - “Extinguishing” for 40 minutes.
- Put fish on portioned plates. Serve with rice.
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With sour cream and vegetables
Did you know? Salmonids are distinguished by spots on the gills as well as people by fingerprints.
With vegetables and cheese
800 g 1.5 hours.
sunflower oil
3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the peeled onion into medium cubes.
- Prepared (washed and peeled) carrots should be grated on a medium grater.
- Grate hard cheese too, but on a coarse grater.
- Finely chop dill and mix with mayonnaise.
- At the bottom of the multicooker you need to pour a little sunflower oil. When it warms up, add prepared vegetables. Fry for 5 minutes, then remove from bowl.
- Take a sheet of foil, arrange the fillet on it, pepper and salt to taste.
- Cover the surface of the fish with vegetables - onions and carrots.
- Top with mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese.
- Wrap the foil so that a flange forms around the products.
- Place the prepared blank on parchment and place in the bowl.
- After the lid is closed, you need to set the cooking mode - “Baking” for 1 hour. When time runs out, leave it for 5 minutes in heating mode.
- Remove the fish in foil, serve with any side dish or eat as the main course, decorating with greens.
Important! You can precisely determine the baking time in a slow cooker by the thickness of the fillet. Each 1.5 cm requires 2 minutes of baking time, which means that for a piece 3 cm thick it will take only 4 minutes.
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With vegetables and raw
With lemon in soy sauce
2 kg50 minutes
vegetable oil
3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut large pieces of fish on the sides in order to insert slices of lemon into them.
- Pour sunflower oil into the multicooker bowl.
- Cut the lemon into half rings and insert into the incisions.
- Sprinkle fish with lemon juice and soy sauce, sprinkle with spices.
- Cook in baking mode for 35 minutes.
- Serve the finished pink salmon with a side dish, sprinkled with herbs.
Video recipe
With lemon in soy sauce
Did you know? Pink salmon — the smallest fish among salmon. She also does not live long — just a couple of years. Unlike Atlantic salmon, for which the maximum recorded age is 13 years.
A slow cooker fish is one of the easiest ways to cook pink salmon. It has a minimum of action and maximum benefit. Cook fish dishes at least once a week in order to provide the body with nutrients and trace elements. Pink salmon will be useful, including for those who adhere to a healthy diet, are on a diet, or simply heal the body.