How to quickly cook a cheap and tasty fish appetizer from capelin

According to this recipe, capelin is prepared in a matter of minutes, so you can easily refuse from its consumption in salted and smoked form, regularly enjoying a delicious home-made fish. Despite the very affordable cost and small size, capelin in nutrition is quite capable of competing with much more expensive representatives of the fish family in your diet. So, this fish contains 23% of easily digestible proteins, iodine, selenium, vitamins A and D, essential fatty acids of the Omega-3 class (slightly less than salmon - 8.2 g / kg against 12). To maximize the preservation of nutrients, it is better to steam it, but the capelin in the oven is much tastier.

Baked capelin - a basic recipe with photos in a step-by-step version

To fill in an oval or round shape measuring approximately 20–25 cm, you will need:

• 1 kg of thawed capelin;
  
• 100 g of flour of any grade;
  
• 1 tsp. spices (salt, black pepper, ground cardamom and turmeric);
  
• half a lemon, and even better - a lime;
  
• 20-30 ml of vegetable oil.

Step 1. Having laid the fish in a colander, let drain excess water. Pour the spices into a bowl of flour.

Step 2. Manually squeeze the juice from the lemon and pour capelin on it. Add well-mixed spice-flour mixture to the fish tank.

Step 3. Gently shaking the bowl, make sure that the flour evenly envelops each fish. Please note - some of it may stick to the bottom.

Step 4. Dry the baking dish and grease it with vegetable oil (adjust its amount arbitrarily, but remember that the calorie content of capelin with a lot of fat increases almost threefold).

Step 5. Put the fish in the mold as tight as possible.

Step 6. In order to cook capelin, like any other fish, you need to put it in a preheated chamber at about 200 C.

Step 7. Bake capelin from 20 to 30 minutes - the exact time interval is determined by the technical features of your oven. When the fish seems to you quite ruddy, take it out.

As a side dish to the baked capelin, you can serve boiled rice, potatoes, a salad of fresh vegetables, but it is most pleasant to crunch it with a bunch of fresh bread.