Pike cutlets in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake pike cutlets in the oven? Prepare the necessary ingredients. If you have a whole fish, gut it, peel off the scales, separate the fillets and remove the bones. The weight of the fillet after processing is 450 g. Pass the fish through a meat grinder or whisk in a blender. I had ready-made minced fish from pike. If you use frozen fish, defrost it beforehand. Pre-melt the butter You can also add onion to the minced meat.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the crusts from slices of white bread. Fill the bread with milk and leave for 5-7 minutes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the minced fish in a bowl. Squeeze the bread from the milk and add it to the minced meat. Beat in the egg, pour in the melted butter, add salt and pepper. If you are going to add onions to minced meat, you can chop it finely, or chop it together with pieces of fish. Chopped onion with a knife can be added to minced meat in raw form or pre-fried in vegetable oil until a light golden color.

5. Step 4:

   

   Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands. If the minced meat turns out to be too liquid and watery (and it often happens when grinding fish in a blender after defrosting, because there is still more moisture in it than in fresh), you can add 1-2 tablespoons of semolina to it and leave for 20 minutes to swell. Put the finished minced meat in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

6. Step 5:

   

   Form medium-sized oval cutlets from the cooled minced meat with wet hands and roll them in breadcrumbs on all sides. If you do not have breadcrumbs, you can make them yourself: cut into cubes several slices of loaf and dry in the oven until golden brown. Then put the crackers in a bag and walk over them with a rolling pin, or chop them in a blender.

7. Step 6:

   

   Place the cutlets on a baking sheet lined with parchment and greased with vegetable oil. Brush the cutlets with vegetable oil on top with a brush. Bake pike cutlets in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 30-35 minutes until golden brown. The exact baking time depends on the characteristics of your oven. Enjoy your meal!