Jewish Gefilte Fish Recipe
Serves/Makes: 10 – 12
Ingredients:
- 3 pounds sea trout (Spanish mackerel or sheepshead fish*) fillets, chopped
- 4 tablespoons margarine
- 4 medium to large yellow onions, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 eggs
- 2 carrots, grated
- 1 1/2 tablespoons matzoh meal
- 1 cup cold water
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt or to taste
How to cook Jewish Gefilte Fish:
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Use a large roasting pan in which to bake the fish. Grease two 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pans.
- Saute onions and garlic in margarine until onions are limp, not brown.
- Place remaining ingredients in large bowl of mixer. Add cooked onions and beat ingredients together for several minutes.
- Pour mixture into prepared loaf pans and cover loosely with aluminum foil. Place in large roasting pan and add water to pan to come halfway up side of loaf pans.
- Bake for 50 – 55 minutes, removing the foil the last 10 minutes. Fish loaf will recede from sides of pan when done. Test with toothpick.
- To cool, rub oil on rack and allow fish loaves to cool upside down. Remove loaf pan as soon as fish has cooled. Freezes nicely.
- Slice the Jewish Gefilte Fish and serve with horseradish.
Notes:
Gefilte fish is a ground fish recipe, popular with people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Formally, it is a type of quenelle, a delicately flavored patty made of lightly seasoned ground fish or white meat. Similar dishes exist in many cultures in local recipes bland or spicy, served plain or sauced, and cooked in simple broth or as part of an elaborate fish stew.
Comments:
*The sheepshead is a marine fish. They are deep and compressed in body shape with 5 to 6 dark bars on the side of the body over a gray background. They have very sharp spines along the dorsal. Their diet consists of bivalves and crustaceans such as clams, oysters, barnacles, and fiddler crabs. They have a very hard mouth with several rows of stubby teeth which help crush prey. Although Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, was named after the fish.
This recipe for Jewish Gefilte Fish serves/makes: 10 – 12
The Jewish Gefilte Fish Recipe adopted from Top Nosh.
Main Ingredient: Trout
Preparation Method: Baked
Cuisine: Jewish