Q: The microwave oven has always been the fastest and the most convenient device to cook a delicious lunch or dinner. As a method of cooking, microwaving also applies to fish. Today we are going to answer the question that thousands of our readers ask, How to microwave pike?
Can I Stew Pike in the Microwave Oven?
Along with frying and baking, pike can also be stewed in the microwave.
Moreover, the taste of the pike will be just the same as if cooked in the oven.
Ingredients:
- Pike – 1 pc
- Carrot – 2-3 pcs
- Onion – 1-2 pcs
- Sweet pepper – 1 pc
- Butter – 50-60 g
- Fish seasoning
- Salt
Pike is sort of dry fish, so we recommend stewing it in the microwave oven with the simplest products that you have at home.
Cut the onions into thin rings and semirings.
Take a microwave-safe dish and cover its bottom with the part of the onion.
Cut the carrots and the pepper without core into thin strips or grate on a larger grater. Add them to the onion in the saucepan.
Vegetables can be slightly salted and sprinkled with seasoning for fish. Lay pike pieces freely on the top.
Salt and sprinkle with spices.
Slice butter into small pieces and put some on top of the fish. This is your first layer.
Repeat all the steps: a layer of onions, carrots, sweet pepper, pieces of fish, salt, sprinkle with seasoning, put butter. Lay all the fish like that.
In the end, pour a little water to cover about 1/3 of the layers, cover with the lid and microwave for 15 minutes at the middle power and 10 minutes at full power.
After the first 15 minutes, check the readiness of the fish and adjust the time: 10 minutes at full power can be enough.
Fish will be cooked very quickly, you simply need to look whether the vegetables are stewed.
Leave the cooked pike in the microwave for 5 minutes, then take it out and serve.
You can actually use this recipe to cook any fish, not only pike in the microwave.
Delicate creamy sauce and vegetables (and the fact that pike was stewed in the microwave oven) make the dish not only very tasty but also nutritious.
You can serve the microwaved pike with mashed potato having poured over the sauce you cooked for the fish, or with steamed (boiled) rice.
By the way, fresh vegetables or a salad made of fresh vegetables will also do.
How to Bake Pike Fillet in the Microwave?
This recipe is good even for those guys who do not like cooking in the microwave.
The pike baked in this way will be delicious and juicy.
For this dish you would need:
- Pike – 1.2-1.7 kg
- Onion – 2 pcs
- Sour cream – 250 g
- Butter – 30 g
- Salt
- Pepper
Preparation:
Clean out and wash the pike. Cut off and freeze the head, tail, and fins. You can use them later for a fish soup.
Separate the fillet with a sharp knife.
Wash onions, cut them and put into the microwavable dish with a lid.
Add half the sour cream and all the butter to the onion. Stir the mixture, salt, and pepper it.
Cover the lid and microwave for 4 minutes at 600 Watt.
Cut the pike fillets into portions. Again, add salt and pepper.
Remove the prepared onion from the baking container.
Place the pike fillets in a baking form, grease with the remnants of sour cream.
Top the fillets evenly with the rest of the onions.
Microwave the dish for 7 minutes at 800 Watt or 9 minutes at 600 Watt.
Pike will be dense and juicy.
P.S. Fine white dry wine tastes especially good with the microwaved pike.
