Eel dishes - 1 cooking recipes

The eel is most often found in flowing lakes and Atlantic river basins. There are two types of eel fish - sea and river. Although this division is not entirely correct, since the river eel often migrates from the river to the sea during its growth.

Eel dishes

In Russia, the common eel lives in the Baltic basin. To prepare eel dishes, this fish must be carefully processed. Recipes with eel advise first washing and drying the fish to remove mucus. Then an incision is made around the head of the eel and the skin is removed. Since the eel is very slippery, you can first rub a pinch of salt in your fingers. After this, you can cut the eel lengthwise and gut it. If we cook at home, then the procedure for preparing eel for cooking will look exactly like this. If you decide to marinate the eel, then in this case it is better not to remove the skin from it. This fish usually has the most delicious fat under its skin. Recipes recommend boiling eel in red wine, serving with sweet and sour sauce, frying, baking and stuffing. For example, small pieces of eel should be placed in a pan, add chopped onion, wine and broth, cover with a lid and cook the eel until tender. . Then put it on a dish and pour the sauce over the fish. It doesn’t matter which eel you get in the store - sea or river. However, it should be remembered that there are significant differences in their chemical composition. For example, conger eel is higher in protein and lower in fat and calories. But river eel has less protein, much more fat, and also has three times more calories. Conger eel is also high in iodine. But such useful substances as iron, phosphorus and potassium are almost equally present in both types of these fish. Well, as for the vitamin content, eel contains vitamins A, D and E, as well as some B vitamins.