Recipes for making pink salmon in puff pastry take fish cooking to a whole new level. Tasty puff pastry filled with the taste of baked fish, mushrooms and greens will surely appeal to both adults and children. Fish is rich in proteins, vitamins and omega-3 acids that the body needs. Learn more about how to cook pink salmon in puff pastry from this article.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Baked dough with fish is a delicious dish that all family members will appreciate. And they begin with the purchase of fresh pink salmon. If possible, buy fresh, not frozen fillet, as the latter quickly loses its taste.
Important! If the fish has gone through several freezing cycles -defrosts, it is easy to find out by dry tail and pale flesh.
When choosing a fish, pay attention to the fact that fresh should have:
- pleasant fish aroma;
- white belly;
- shiny, non-peeling scales;
- light red gills.
First you need to wash and gut the fish. The head and entrails are removed, and the meat itself is used further in accordance with the recipe.
Cooking pink salmon in a puff pastry in the oven
Delicious fish pie can be prepared very quickly, because most of the ingredients are at hand for any housewife. In addition, you can always replace parsley with fresh cilantro, and fresh fish with canned. In this case, the taste will change a little, but will remain as excellent.
Pink salmon puffs
1–1.5 kg60 min.
pink and boneless pink salmon fillet
500-700 g
puff pastry
500 g
dough flour
70 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- To prepare the filling, separate the fish fillets from the skin and cut into cubes.
- Pepper, salt to taste, drizzle with lemon juice, add chopped dill or parsley.
- Peel and finely chop the onions. To prevent the dough from sticking, sprinkle the working surface with flour.
- Cut the dough into equal portions-squares according to the number of guests. Roll out the squares. Beat the egg in a separate bowl.
- Put a filling on each prepared square. It will be pink salmon, onions, 1 tsp. sour cream and 1 teaspoon butter, because pink salmon meat is very dry and needs additional moisture.
- Grease the edges of the envelopes with a beaten egg so that they are well connected.
- Wrap envelopes in the same way as a mail envelope.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and put envelopes on it, greasing the top with a beaten egg. Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C and bake for 35–40 minutes.
Video recipe
Pink salmon puffsDid you know? It is believed that the meat of male pink salmon is tastier than the meat of females, due to the greater amount of fat. It’s easy to distinguish a male — it has a short hind fin and a longer head shape.
Layer cake with potatoes and fish
1 kg60 min.
square puff yeast dough
500 g
mixture "Spicy greens"
1 pack
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Remove the skin with a sharp knife.
- Pepper the fish, salt, pour vegetable oil. Grate well on both sides and leave to marinate.
- Cut peeled potatoes into slices, not too thin.
- Put the potatoes in a saucepan, pour boiling water, boil until half cooked. Fold in a colander, and then put in a bowl.
- Pour spicy herbs, black pepper, salt and add sunflower oil. Stir and leave to infuse 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle the work surface with flour and roll out a square of dough. The layer should be rectangular. One side will be equal to the length of the fillet, and the second - 3 times more.
- In the central part of the rolled sheet, lay out the overlapping potato slices.
- Lay the fillet of pink salmon on top.
- Make even cuts from the filling borders on the free edges of the dough. The width of the stripes does not matter.
- Now wrap the ends of the strips so that they overlap one another, like a pigtail.
- Put parchment on a baking sheet, and on it - a pie that needs to be greased with egg yolk.
- Preheat the oven to + 200 ° C and bake for 30 minutes. to a beautiful golden crust.
Video recipe
Layer cake with potatoes and fishImportant! To prevent pieces of onion falling out when you bite a pie or puff, it is recommended to cut into half rings.
Puffs with fish and mushrooms
1 kg40 min.
vegetable oil
2 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pour the prepared fillet with lemon juice.
- Heat oil in a pan over medium heat and put the fish in it. Fry for 5 minutes, until it begins to fall apart, if pressed with a fork.
- Remove the pink salmon from the pan and put chopped mushrooms and onions. Fry until soft and liquid evaporates. Cool fish and mushrooms with onions at room temperature for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to + 100 ° C. Beat the egg with a little water in a bowl with a fork.
- Sprinkle the working surface with flour. Roll out the dough and cut into squares.
- In the center of each put 1 spoon of mushroom mixture and a piece of fillet.
- Grease the edges of the squares with an egg. Fold them in an envelope and seal.
- Cover the pan with parchment. Put envelopes on it with the seam down. Lubricate the surface with an egg.
- Bake for 25 minutes. until golden brown. Serve with creamy sauce.
- To prepare the sauce, you need to stir 3/4 cup sour cream, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of Dijon mustard, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped fresh herbs and 1 teaspoon of dill seeds until smooth.
Did you know? The pattern on gill circles of salmon is individual. It differs in the same way as fingerprints in humans.
Cooking fish in puff pastry is easy and fast. This recipe cannot be spoiled, which makes it indispensable if guests suddenly come to you, or if you simply don’t want to cook dishes that require many actions. By adding and changing the composition of the filling, you can get a variety of options for puffs with fish.