Recipe: Gefilte fish + some extras
Gefilte fish
1 kg of white fish or a combination of several white fish (traditionally trout and hake, I use cod now).
4 eggs
250 grams of breadcrumbs (this is to absorb some of the vegetable and fish moisture so sometimes I use a little bit of flour too if I don’t have enough)
½ glass of water
1 tbsp of sugar
2 onions, diced and passed through boiled water, then drained
grated carrot (optional)
salt and pepper to taste.
You blend the fish, sugar and vegetables with an electric blender. You do not want a puree, though, there should not be whole pieces of anything in there (fish included) but don’t overdo it either. Once that’s done, add the eggs and the breadcrumbs (the ones I use are as thick as sugar). You should be able to shape a ball and toss it from hand to hand lightly without it coming apart but it should also be sticky, so some water might be required if the mixture is too hard (this hasn’t happened to me since I started using frozen fish). If it’s too moist it will not cook properly so I always tend to go for too dry over too moist.
There’s two cooking options, you oil a oven tray and shape the fish like a very broad load (about 15 cm long, 4cm high and 9cm of width) and oil the top of it as well, too. With this amount of fish you should get at least 2 “loaves”. You cook them at 200º for about 30 minutes and use a knife to check if it’s cooked inside the same way you’d do with a cake.
The alternative is to shape the fish in balls of big prune and boil them in water where you previously boiled two sliced carrots and a diced onion (and a stock cube, if you want). You serve the boiled fish with the carrots and onions as a side/decoration.
I’m a big fan of the oven version but my grandmother used to do both since it’s a fairly light dish that you can eat a lot of and it tastes different enough you might have both without being bored.
Gefilte fish tends to get better the next day and freezes great as well, just cut the loaf into slices before so you don’t have to unfreeze all of it at once.
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