Pike caviar: how to cook tasty and fast at home

What is usually done with pike caviar?

The usual method of preparing pike caviar is salting or pasteurization. Salting is a very simple and affordable way of processing. To do this, just add salt to the caviar in a proportion of 2-3% of the amount of caviar, and let it sit for a couple of days. If you serve this product in a beautiful special bowl, add chopped onion and season it all with sour cream, then pike caviar will be an excellent appetizer at any feast.

What to cook from pike caviar - recipes

Pike caviar has amazing nutritional characteristics and unique beneficial qualities. It goes on sale in canned form, so it can be safely used as a filling for shortcrust pastry baskets, sandwiches, canapés, as a separate snack, and can also be added to sauce, pate and fish mousses.

When consuming the product, you need to remember that it should not be consumed by people with individual intolerances, as well as children under 3 years of age, due to the presence of collagen in it, which can cause allergies. When properly processed, pike caviar turns out to be quite appetizing and delicate in taste.

Casserole

The classic version of caviar sandwiches consists of only 3 ingredients: bread, butter and caviar itself. With a little imagination, you can come up with countless treats that will add variety to the holiday table.

“Royal canapes”:

• French baguette;
• canned caviar;
• cream cheese;
• cilantro;
• lemon juice;
• olives or olives, preferably pitted;

1. Using a shot glass, cut out a round base from the bread and lightly fry it in a dry frying pan.
2. In a blender bowl, combine cheese and finely chopped herbs, adding a pinch of salt.
3. Sprinkle the crouton with lemon juice.
4. Using a pastry bag and a nozzle, pipe the “green cream” onto the crouton, make a depression, and place the caviar quenelles on top.
5. Additionally decorate with herbs and olive slices.
6. The dish can be served to the table.

Pike caviar soup

• Pike caviar – 500 gr.
• Potatoes – 4 pcs.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Flour – 200 gr.
• Greens, salt, pepper, bay leaf.

Cooking steps:

1. Wash fish products, separate from films, and place in boiling water.
2. Place the potatoes cut into wedges.
3. Cook for 20 minutes.
4. Fry chopped onions and carrots in vegetable oil.
5. While stirring the boiling broth, add bay leaf, salt, pepper, vegetables and flour.
6. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
7. Decorate the finished dish with herbs.

Tartar sauce

Ingredients:

• pike caviar – 100 gr.,
• 1 tsp chopped onions,
• olive oil - 70g,
• 0.5 tsp wine vinegar (you can use balsamic),
• sea ​​salt.

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Preparation:

1. Place the caviar in a bowl convenient for whipping.
2. Add onion.
3. Whisk, adding oil, until a thick mass forms.
4. Lightly salt and add a couple of drops of vinegar.
5. Continue beating until the mixture doubles in volume.
6. Serve chilled.

Salad with pike caviar

For 8 servings you will need:

• Ham - 200 g,
• Crab meat – 100 g,
• Boiled chicken breast - 200 g,
• Pickled cucumber - 3 pcs.,
• Onions – 1 pc.,
• Pike caviar - 1/2 jar.
• Tomato - 2 pcs.,
• Mayonnaise - 200 g,
• Dill and parsley, lettuce leaves (for decoration),
• Boiled egg - 2 pcs.

Preparation:

1. Cut ham, cucumbers, chicken and crab meat into strips.
2. Add salt to taste.
3. Add caviar, mayonnaise and mix everything.
4. For dressing it is better to use homemade mayonnaise.
5. Add pickled onions. To do this, cut the onion into half rings, place in a deep plate, add 2 tbsp. l. vinegar and pour boiling water. After 10 minutes, drain the water.
6. Grate the boiled egg and place on top of the salad.
7. Decorate the floor with tomato slices and herbs.
8. Serve on clean lettuce leaves.

Salting at home

Pike caviar is a true delicacy, not inferior in its taste and healthiness to red or black caviar. Now the extraction of a valuable by-product is quite problematic, because catching pike during the spawning period is prohibited. Despite this, by buying fish at the market or catching it in the river, you can purchase specimens with caviar. Then the logical question arises, what to do with pike caviar. The recipes for this product are quite varied.

How to extract caviar from pike?

The fish is first washed well and freed from entrails. The bags filled with caviar, called yastyki, are carefully removed. Before salting, caviar is freed from the eggs, cleaned of film, blood and anything that is not caviar. You can carry out the cleaning procedure using several simple procedures:

• The yastyki can be scrolled in a meat grinder. But this method has its pitfalls. The film from the yokes is sometimes simply wound around the screw of the meat grinder; it will have to be disassembled and cleaned. It may happen that the film is crushed into small pieces, which will subsequently need to be removed for a long time.
• Connoisseurs sometimes use a mixer to quickly extract caviar. With this method, the film remains on the blade of the device, from where it cannot be removed.
• You can use a grater to extract eggs. The yastiki are rubbed on the largest holes of the grater, the films themselves remain in the hands and are thrown away.
• Rubbing the bags through a sieve gives the same result.
• There is another fairly simple but effective method. For it you need to prepare a fork, a colander and a lot of water. All available bags are placed in a basin, the volume of which is three times larger than the caviar placed in it. Then the basin is filled with boiling water. Gently stir the contents of the bowl with a fork for about 5 minutes. During this time, the films will dissolve and rise to the top. Remove any floating films with a spoon and drain the boiling water. The bowl with caviar is then filled with cold water, mixed and the water is drained again. This manipulation is repeated many times, sometimes up to 15, until all the films are washed and the water becomes clearer.

Then, after cleaning the caviar, it should be passed through cheesecloth. The gauze is laid in several layers and placed at the bottom of a colander. The piece of gauze should be large enough to accommodate the entire caviar. Next, pour in water with caviar and wait until the water flows out. The gauze with caviar is wrapped and carefully squeezed out. After this, the caviar is ready for further processing. It is very important that there are no side inclusions left in it.

Recipes for preparing pike caviar at home

1. Salting method. Remove caviar from films and other inclusions and add salt to it. You should take 10 g of salt per glass of product. Then the salted product is transferred to a separate container and a small amount of vegetable oil is added. The container is placed in a cool place overnight, but not in a refrigerator. The product can be consumed in the morning.
2. A quick way to pickle sandwiches. The caviar bags are washed. Fill the pan with water with added salt and heat it to boiling water. Then the container is removed from the heat and the bags are lowered into it. The contents are stirred without interruption. The films will dissolve after a certain period of time, the caviar is passed through a sieve and placed in a jar into which a small amount of vegetable oil is poured. Do not seal the jar, the caviar may “suffocate”. The product processed in this way is stored in the refrigerator.
3. Drying. The dried product is a good addition to beer. The caviar in the yastyk is rolled in salt, placed in an enamel bowl, and a weight is placed on top. The vessel with caviar is placed in the refrigerator compartment. After 3-5 days, the bags are washed and then dried for about 5-7 days. Dried caviar is ready.
4. Fried caviar. The yastyki are washed, rolled in salted flour and fried in a frying pan with sunflower oil. Fry the bag on each side for about 5 minutes. The dish turns out appetizing and very tasty.

A simple recipe for salted pike caviar at home

This is how I most often prepare this natural, delicious delicacy. Don't forget the main rule: the product should be as fresh as possible. Otherwise, everything is very simple and fast.

This is a hot salting method - compared to cold, it significantly increases the shelf life of the finished product. Store covered to prevent drying out.

Required Products:

• pike caviar;
• 1 liter of water;
• 2 tbsp. salt.

How to do:

1. First, free the caviar from the films. To do this, pass it through a meat grinder once - the films will remain on the knives.

2. Pour salt into the water and put on fire. As soon as the water boils, remove the brine from the stove and let it cool slightly. Its temperature should drop to 70-80ºС.

3. Transfer the caviar mixture into a deep bowl and fill with brine. Stir regularly for 10 minutes. Remains of films, veins, and burst eggs will float to the surface. Remove them and throw them away. During this time, the product will be well cleaned and salted. Then drain it into a fine sieve. If the eggs are very small, line the sieve with two layers of gauze.

4. Leave the mixture in the sieve for 15-20 minutes to allow the remaining brine to drain. Transfer the snack to a storage container and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.

Everything is ready, you can taste it! I recommend putting it on a piece of bread and butter.

I also like to cook tender caviar pancakes. Delicious, tender and incredibly healthy! Your family will not guess what these pancakes are made from. For a step-by-step recipe, see another article.

Useful properties of caviar

• Caviar is a product that is very useful for women. Women persistently struggle with excess weight throughout their lives, undertaking all kinds of restrictions and diets. This causes the body to lack many nutrients. Pike caviar, being a low-calorie product, will enrich the body with useful substances and will not increase weight during a diet.
• Pike caviar contains omega 3 acid. It has the ability to block the development of cancer cells, so caviar is a good preventative against cancer. In addition, omega 3 is included in many cosmetic creams that are recommended against skin aging and for its rejuvenation.
• Like any other, pike caviar is rich in iodine. It is necessary for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland. Caviar is a few of the foods that can bring iodine into our body.
• Another component contained in pike caviar is vitamin A. It helps maintain human immunity at a high level. In addition, vitamin A is good for the eyes.
• Pike caviar, due to the fact that it contains vitamin E, helps remove toxins from the body at the cellular level.
• The human body can obtain vitamin D only through sunlight or fish products. Caviar is rich in this vitamin, which strengthens bones and skin cells. Since childhood, we remember the taste of fish oil, which saturated the body with vitamin D. It can be replaced with pike caviar, even for a small child.
• The benefits of pike caviar are undeniable for those people who suffer from low hemoglobin. It improves blood quality.