Pike Medallions with Gherkin Marinade

Main Dishes | Russian cuisine

⏳ Time

2 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Pike medallions with gherkin marinade

Ingredients

Onion - 19.4 oz
Vegetable Oil - 5 fl oz
White bread - 8.8 oz
Milk - 5 fl oz
Skate Fillet - 2 lbs
Lard - 12.3 oz
Salt - 0.7 oz
Ground Black Pepper - 0.2 oz
10% cream - 25 fl oz
Wheat Flour - 0.7 oz
Gherkins - 3.5 oz
Garlic - 0.7 oz
Carrot - 17.6 oz
Spiced Tomato Juice - 1 qt
Ketchup - 8.8 oz

Step by Step guide

Step 1

For the marinade, slice the gherkins and garlic into rounds, and cut the onion into half rings. Grate the carrot on a coarse grater.

Step 2

Sauté gherkins, garlic, onion, carrot, tomato juice, and ketchup in sunflower oil over low heat for 40 minutes. Let the resulting marinade cool in the refrigerator.

Step 3

Dice 300 grams of onions and sauté them in vegetable oil. Soak the crustless white bread in milk.

Step 4

Cut the pike fillet and pork fat into cubes, add the sautéed onions, bread soaked in milk, and pass the mixture through a meat grinder twice.

Step 5

Season the minced meat with salt and pepper, add the cream, and whisk well.

Step 6

Shape the minced meat into balls and flatten them on top to form medallions.

Step 7

Coat the fillets in flour and fry them in sunflower oil on both sides until golden brown. Then, finish cooking them in the oven at 302°F for 15 minutes. Place three pike medallions on a plate, topping each with some marinade. Garnish with sprigs of fresh basil, capers on a branch, and a slice of tomato.