Gefilte Fish Recipe
Gefillte Fish has a lovely taste. Gefillte Fish gets its taste from cornstarch mixed with eggs and topped with nutmeg. Gefillte Fish is inspired by many food joints worldwide.
Ingredients
2 tenches
Salt
Lemon juice
Soup greens
6 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1/4 cup coarse bread crumbs, or matzo meal
1 onion, finely chopped
Pepper
Nutmeg
1/3 cup chopped almonds
4 egg yolks
2 to 3 tablespoons cornstarch
Directions
Scale and clean fish; rinse well.
Remove fish meat and bones, taking care not to damage the skin, head and tail.
Put the raw fish through a meat grinder.
Cover fish bones in a kettle with water seasoned with salt, lemon juice and soup greens; cook 25 minutes.
Strain; reserve broth.
Heat butter in a skillet; add fish, parsley and crumbs and cook several minutes.
Mix in the onion, pepper, nutmeg, almonds and 2 egg yolks mixed with a little wafer.
Stuff mixture into fish skin; close fish with skewers, or sew with thread.
Lay fish gently into heated broth and simmer until done; remove to heated platter and keep warm while preparing the sauce.
Thicken broth in kettle with cornstarch mixed with a little cold water.
Stir the remaining 2 egg yolks into the sauce.
Add seasoning, if needed.
Pour sauce over fish on platter and garnish with lemon slices.
Remove fish meat and bones, taking care not to damage the skin, head and tail.
Put the raw fish through a meat grinder.
Cover fish bones in a kettle with water seasoned with salt, lemon juice and soup greens; cook 25 minutes.
Strain; reserve broth.
Heat butter in a skillet; add fish, parsley and crumbs and cook several minutes.
Mix in the onion, pepper, nutmeg, almonds and 2 egg yolks mixed with a little wafer.
Stuff mixture into fish skin; close fish with skewers, or sew with thread.
Lay fish gently into heated broth and simmer until done; remove to heated platter and keep warm while preparing the sauce.
Thicken broth in kettle with cornstarch mixed with a little cold water.
Stir the remaining 2 egg yolks into the sauce.
Add seasoning, if needed.
Pour sauce over fish on platter and garnish with lemon slices.