Archive for October, 2008

Today we introduce one of catfish recipes of Greek kitchen. As you know, There is everything in Greece, even catfish .

Ingredients:

• 4 catfish fillet (approximately 600 g)
• 300 g.  frozen carved spinage
• 3/4 cup crumbed Feta cheese
• 1 tbsp oregano
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 bunch-onions
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp ground black pepper

Cooking time: 30 min.

Praparation:
Unfreeze the spinage and push it dry up. Oil a frying pan and put catfish fillet. Sprinkle every piece of fillet with 1 tsp of salt and peper mixture. Mingle spinage, Feta cheese, oregano, melted butter, fine-cut bunch onions and the rest of peper and salt in an other bowl.

Cover each catfish fillet with the blend. Bake during 15-20 minutes at 175ºC till the fish bacame soft and you can easily pierce it with a fork. Serve immediately.

It’s very delicious. Enjoy it!

Small pies is a traditional Ukrainian kitchen dish, wich is always served on Christmas and  New Year. Whould you like to cook small pies using this holiday catfish recipe.

You will need:

• 400 g. flour
• 3 tbsp oil
• 25-30 g. yeast
• 300 g. catfish fillet
• 300 g. salmon
• ground black pepper
• 1 tbsp rusk flour
• salt
• sugar
• tea

Cooking time: 3 hour.

Preparing:
For cooking small pies according to this holiday baking recipe mix a lenten dough. First mix a sponge dough using 200 g. flour, 160 g. water and yeast. When the sponge dough rises add salt, sugar, oil, 200 g. more flour and smash the dough till it stops sticking to your hands. Let the dough to rise twice. Roll the dough into thin sheet and cut disks with cup or glass.

Put catfish fillet farce and a bit of salmon on each dough disk. Pinch pies edgings, but leave a break in the middle. Lay the small pies out on oiled baking sheet and let them rise in warm place during 15 min. Spread each small pie with strong sweet tea and sprinkle with rusk flour. Bake small pies in good preheated oven.

The holes in upper part of pies serve for pouring fish cook water inside it during lunch. Small pies are usually served with fish broth or soup.

Have a nice meal!

Here is one more catfish recipe, which you can use on holydays or every day.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg catfish fillet
• 3 large onions
• 2 middle carrots
• 3 glass fish cooking water
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• flour
• oil
• ground black pepper
• sugar
• salt

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Preparation:

Wash and dry catfish fillet, cut into serving parts. Salt and pepper to your liking. Preheat a frying pan, pour some oil and roast the fish from both sides.
Then cook the sauce: peel onion and cut it large. Clear carrot and grater it. Saute the onion with oil and a little bit sugar. Then add the carrot and keep frying for a few minutes. Put 2 tbsp tomato paste into vegetables, mix and smother for 2 minutes. Pour fish cooking water, and simmer for 15 minutes.
Lay the fish to plates, pour sauce and let it cool down.

You can decorate the dish with greens. They are very usefull, because they contain much vitamins and provitamins like С, А, В, В2, РР, К.

Bon appetit!