What to make from pollock fillet

Crab sticks have long been loved by our hostess, because they give the usual dishes a spicy and unusual taste. But the ones on sale are often thick chemistry.





"Site" He knows how to get out of the situation, and offers to prepare with his own hands high-quality crab sticks from natural ground fish.





We have also prepared for you a selection of original salads with this popularly beloved semi-finished product. Save them in a cookbook, because they all deserve to be on the festive table!

The main component of all crab sticks is surimi - fish minced from white fish fillets, in particular hake, pollock or cod.





In the homeland of the dish, in Japan, the production of Surimi products has very high requirements. Farm should be prepared only from fresh fish caught no more than 6 hours ago.

In our realities, these technological aspects are extremely difficult to adhere to, so the basis for crab sticks is often frozen fish.





Convinced as a frozen fish for obvious signs is not always possible. Choosing quality and fresh fish will help our advice.

The ingredients
  • 500g fish fillets (mintai, cod, pangasius)
  • 4 tbsp potato starch
  • 2 tbsp dry seaweed
  • 4 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp paprika
  • 100 ml of water


Preparation
  1. Cut the fish fillet into pieces, remove the bones.


  2. Dry seaweed ground in a coffee grinder or blender. It can be replaced with crab spices, which in this case will act as the main flavoring.
  3. Grind in a blender or pass through the meat grinder pieces of fish.


  4. Add ground seaweed, soy sauce and paprika to the mince. Stir it.
  5. Put the mince in the pan, add 50 ml of water so as not to burn. Stir it to a boil.
  6. Dilute in 50 ml of water starch and add to the mince. Cook it to thicken.
  7. Transfer the finished mass into a rectangular shape, cool, cut in the form of sticks and freeze.

  8. To prepare your favorite salads, slightly thaw some of the sticks and cut them with cubes.
  9. Homemade crab sticks Both in structure and color are different from shops, but the taste and smell are quite similar.


  10. Bon appetit and delicious salads!


In order to choose in the store quality and really crabsticksIt is enough to pay attention to their composition, indicated on the package.

Choose crab sticks, which contain from 40% to 60% of surimi. But products in which surimi only 20%, better leave on the shelf.

Tags

See also

New and interesting