Q: Do you want to put an eel in the microwave? This is not an easy-to-cook product if you have it fresh or frozen. Eel is the sort of seafood which demands much attention from the cooker. It is sometimes considered dangerous for your health if you have gastritis, or liver and bile duct disease. Anyway, if you have this snake-like fish on your table and the microwave oven in front of you, we are here to help you out with cooking.
How to Microwave Eel?
Outwardly, this fish resembles a snake with a body in the form of a cylinder and a slightly squashed tail section.
The head of the fish is small in size, but the small teeth are very sharp. There are sea eel and river eel, but each of them is good in its own way.
No matter what sort of eel you choose, take the carcass in the amount you need and follow the recipe below to cook it fast in the microwave.
Ingredients:
- Eel – 200 g
- Wine vinegar – 5 tbs
- Chopped dill – 1 tbs
- Salt
Cut the eel into small pieces (2 cm is OK.)
In a ceramic bowl, pour half a liter of water, add vinegar and chopped dill and place the eel.
Microwave the dish for 5-6 minutes at full power. Then take it out, turn upside down and put in the microwave oven again for 4 minutes.
This is the easiest way to boil eel in the microwave oven.
Besides, the eel can be one of the ingredients of more complicated recipes for the microwave.
For instance, eel tastes well in sushi. If you decide to make them at home, you should know that the eel is best when it’s not fully unfrozen.
Take the flattened semi-frozen carcass.
Scratch the solid parts of the eel’s back.
The back is often hard and rubber-like and that’s where you’ll need the microwave.
You can soften the back of the eel and use all the parts for sushi.
For this, put back in the microwave for 2 minutes. Repeat the process if needed.
Cut into pieces and use as your sushi recipe says.
Can I Lose Weight Eating Eel Regularly?
The dishes with eel accelerate metabolism.
This is one of the important factors that provide weight loss.
For better results, you should choose the varieties of sea fish which are low-calorie. By the way, sea eel is rich in proteins, which is also important for the body.
These factors allow us to consider the meat of the sea eel as a dietary product and recommend including it to the diet for those who want to improve the body or lose excess pounds.
How to Microwave Ready-Made Eel Kabayaki?
If you managed to buy a manufactured pack of frozen eel kabayaki that has been specifically prepared to be cooked in the microwave oven, then the easiest way to boil it right is to follow the instructions on the package.
Many manufacturers save time and money for Japanese food restaurants producing readymade seafood that needs only a few minutes in the microwave to get ready.
If for some reasons you can’t read the instructions, follow ours:
- To boil prepacked frozen eel, let the packet set in boiling water for 5 minutes, then take the eel out of the package and serve as you wish
- Set the microwave oven to 800 Watt, make holes in the package with eel, place it in the microwave-safe dish and microwave for 2-3 minutes.
Such type of eel can also be baked in the stove, just remove the packaging and place in the foil container, then send to the stove for 8 to 10 minutes to bake.
Eel is best served as sushi filling or with rice (steamed preferred.)
