Whole pike perch in the oven

Healthy, dietary, appetizing, for the whole family! Pike perch in the oven is completely cooked very simply. Lemon, butter, onion and spices — that's all the necessary set of products. Baked in parchment, the pike perch remains tender, juicy and very tasty!

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Pike perch

Onion

0.5

Lemons

0.5

Olive oil

Thyme, thyme

to taste

Ground black pepper

to taste

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 76 % 16 g

Fats 19 % 4 g

Carbohydrates 5 % 1 g

106 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min

Step 1:
How to bake a whole pike perch in the oven? Prepare the products. It is better if the pike perch is fresh and small, then it will turn out juicier and tastier. But with frozen fish, the dish will also turn out, then defrost it beforehand. Spices can be taken according to your taste, but I would advise you not to abuse them, so as not to clog the delicate taste of white fish. Thyme is suitable both fresh and dried.
Step 2:
Gut the fish, remove the gills, fins and tail. You can cut off the head or leave it at your discretion. I prefer to serve baked fish with my head, I left it. Peel the onion and cut into half rings, lemon — circles.
Step 3:
Make transverse incisions on the carcass, season the fish with salt, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice and oil. Put half rings of onion and lemon in the abdomen.
Step 4:
Take a large piece of parchment. Pour oil on the parchment and smear it a little in the place where the fish will lie. Put the pike perch on parchment and wrap it in an envelope, tightly twisting the edges. Instead of parchment, foil and a baking sleeve are also suitable.
Step 5:
Bake the fish in the oven at 180 degrees for half an hour. Then open the paper, add thyme, sprinkle the fish with oil again. Bake for another 10 minutes in the open so that the pike perch is browned.
Step 6:
The pike perch in the oven is completely ready! Serve it hot. Enjoy your meal!

Serve zander with herbs, you can prepare a side dish of boiled or baked potatoes, crumbly rice. In this case, I advise you to prepare a white sour cream sauce with horseradish.

Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way, read the article about defrosting.

In order for the oven to have time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on in advance (10-20 minutes before the start of cooking).

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !