Fish, potatoes and fantasy, or How to continue the holidays?


Whole family went on holiday in the cafe, where his daughter and son played in a special room until passed cooking meals for them.

We were lucky: a little boy all the time slept in the mini-buggy. As the older children played enough of the incident, naprygalis, shouted, then with a sense of accomplishment swallowed boats of salmon with four islands of mashed potatoes, a walk in the frost and returned home, filled with pleasant experiences.


But this weekend a nice kids wanted to repeat. And because the children know that dinner at the cafe very expensive, they offered me: "Mom, prepare our boats." I agreed. They began to think of something. The restaurant had a plate cucumber, olives, skewered on "toothpicks", dill stuck in the mashed potatoes ...

Instead of pink salmon (to us because of allergy in a small river can only fish from freshwater, so buying in the market only to Lake Baikal), I took a small Baikal whitefish (it is not very expensive). Butchered it, removing the entrails, fins, removing the skin and cut pieces crosswise. Received small very nice boats. We decided that boats with sails do the number of consumers (three), the remaining pieces will be just a boat. All dip in salted flour, put it on a heated pan with butter.

While the fish is lightly fried on both sides are preparing the sails. We used an onion and frozen vegetables in bags. In the summer, of course, better to take fresh vegetables - this is useful, and variety of widgets.

Take an onion, cut it along the criss-cross, leaving one section, the others defer to one side - useful for browning in puree. Separates from the leaves of onion slices. Choosing the best not very large, then they will be more stable on a piece of fish. This is the sail. Put them in a colander and Scald to become a sweet onion.

To support the sails choose frozen in slices carrots. Stick it on the toothpick first. Next stringing the lower end of the sail over the circle, carrot, then a pea, then the pod beans, camouflage it all upper end of the sail, and finally crowned its flag from the already polurazmorozhennoy strips of red pepper.

By this time the fish is roasted and ready to stew by adding a small amount of water and residue vegetables installed on each boat, a piece of pre-prepared sail. While the boats dotushivayutsya to simmer under the lid, my potatoes, peeled, and cook it in filtered water. While cooking potatoes, cut the left half-rings or diced onions, passeruem it in sunflower oil.

Steamed potatoes pour potato broth with fried onions, add the milk in about the same ratio and crush until smooth consistency.

When spread on a plate, you comment on with the children. First, a little white boat stewed fish with an orange base for the white sails, as if strung on a green pea pod with beans, and with a magnificent red flag. Then, pieces of boats without sails, and then add the sea-mean. Then drop back the remaining unused in the sails extinguished vegetables, seaweed, and then put mashed-shore. The youngest member of our family goes to sea from the boat tail, it is kneaded with mashed potatoes, and the kid takes the same cheerful and vigorous part in the feast of seafarers.

We have turned gay unforgettable meal from a permanent move boats by sea, eating incredibly delicious onion (which children usually hate) and priglazhivaniem and trim with a spoon coast of mashed potatoes.

The only thing - sorry that we did not have a camera to capture all this beauty and color vkusnotu.

The value of this dish lies in the fact that it can be cooked in the fasting days, when allowed to fish.

Enjoy your meal!