Bream with mushrooms
Description
The recipe won't take much time. Bream with mushrooms is a delicious, very filling dish, and it's perfectly suitable even for festive lunches or dinners. It will take you about 2 hours to prepare, but believe me, it's worth it. The recipe for bream with mushrooms is quite simple, as it uses easily accessible ingredients that we instinctively know how to cook. However, the taste of the dish is far from ordinary: the delicate flavor of fish combined with mushrooms and a hint of lemon tang will surely win you over. Serve hot.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. Wash the fish, clean it, and remove all the innards. Rinse it again and make small cuts on the sides—about 20 in total.
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Step 2
2. Then take salt, pepper, coriander, and mix everything thoroughly.
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Step 3
3. When all the spices are mixed, I take the bream and rub it thoroughly with this mixture. I let the fish sit for 40–60 minutes so that the bream can "marinate."
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Step 4
4. Set the bream aside and start preparing the onion. Peel and wash the onion, chop it into small cubes, and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
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Step 5
5. Then I proceed to the mushrooms. I rinse them under running water, slice them lengthwise, and fry. Like the onions, the mushrooms should acquire a golden color.
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Step 6
6. As soon as the mushrooms are fried, mix them with the onion. Transfer the ready filling into the bream's belly.
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Step 7
7. To prevent the filling from falling out of the fish, secure the cut with toothpicks.
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Step 8
8. Then I usually take a lemon, slice it into half-rings, and place two slices behind the bream's gills. The lemon adds a slight tanginess to the dish, which only enhances the fish's flavor.
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Step 9
9. Now all that remains is to wrap the bream's tail in a piece of foil so that it doesn't burn during baking.
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Step 10
10. Everything is ready for baking. Transfer the bream onto a preheated baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and place it in the oven. Bake for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees. After 30 minutes, brush the fish with mayonnaise and continue baking for another 10 minutes.
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Step 11
11. Once 40 minutes have passed, place the bream in the oven and insert lemon halves into the slits made at the beginning of cooking. Leave the dish in the oven for another 5 minutes, then serve.