This is my mom’s recipe, she used to cook pretty much any fish we had like this. Original recipe calls for parsley roots, but they are hard to come around here, so I used parsnips instead and it worked good.
Important moment: the fish should be with bones (so pieces won’t fall apart). Actually this recipe is very good for bony fish: if you let fish simmer with vegetables for longer – smaller bones will dissolve while cooking.
Ingredients:
2lb of fish with bones, I took salmon steaks
2 onions
3 tomatoes
4-5 carrots
2 parsnips (or parsley roots or both of these)
5 bay leaves
15 whole black peppercorns
1/2 cup of water
All purpose flour for dusting
Salt to taste
3 tablespoons of oil
How to prepare, step-by-step:
Prepare ingredients: scale fish if it isn’t scaled yet:
Pour flour into a bowl. Slice fish into portion pieces (for stakes it is good to slice each in half along the spine bone) and dust each fish piece from each side with flour:
Warm up deep frying pan with about 3 tablespoons of oil over moderate-high heat, move fish in:
Fry all fish pieces from all sides until colored, then move fish pieces to a plate:
Reduce heat to moderate, peel onions, slice them into half circles and add them to the frying pan. Fry onions until colored, stir from time to time:
Peel root vegetables (carrots, parsnips and parsley root if you have some), slice them into stripes, add them to the frying pan; mix and continue cooking vegetables together: