Fast food is firmly entrenched in the life of modern man. Its diversity is simply amazing. All new fast dishes for every “taste and color” are regularly invented. The most popular food here is certainly a hamburger. Chicken connoisseurs can opt for the Chickenburger. Fish lovers were also not deprived of attention, a fishburger was created for them.
This is a burger, which necessarily includes a fish cake and a special sauce. Other ingredients can be added as desired. Like any other fast food, the calorie content of a fishburger is rather big, but it is lower than that of the same hamburger due to fish.
Children especially like to eat fast food, but many parents question the quality of such products. In order not to worry about your beloved child, and also to please yourself with not only a tasty, but also healthy burger, cook a fishburger at home. Consider step by step and with a photo the cooking options for this dish.
Fishburger like in McDuck
Many of you must have been to McDonald's at least once and tried the food there. Fishburger is one of the signature dishes of this establishment. It also has another name - Filet-o-fish. From this recipe you will learn how to cook such a dish on your own, as close as possible to original version. The scheme of its preparation is very simple.
You need:
- Fillet of white fish (it is better to take cod) - 6 pieces;
- One egg;
- 6 squares of cheese;
- 6 burger buns;
- Flour - 3 large spoons;
- 2 pickled cucumbers;
- Breadcrumbs;
- Mayonnaise - 5 large spoons;
- Salt - a quarter of a small spoon;
- Mustard - a teaspoon;
- Dill greens - a large spoon.
Now the Fishburger recipe itself, like in McDonald's:
- First, let's make a tartar. If you wish, you can separately make such a sauce according to all the canons, but in this instruction we will prepare it in an accelerated version using store-bought mayonnaise. Finely chop the dill and chop the cucumbers, then mix them with maynesic and mustard. On this tar-tar is ready;
- Let's move on to the fish. Cut the fillet into square steaks and salt them on both sides;
- Roll each fish piece first in flour, then in beaten egg mixture, then roll in breadcrumbs;
- Fry the blanks in a frying pan with plenty of oil over a medium flame for 2 minutes on each side;
- When you turn the cutlet over to the other side, immediately place a slice of cheese on it so that it melts. If the cutlets suddenly start to burn, then it is better to bring them to readiness in the oven for five minutes at 180 degrees;
- We warm the buns a little in the microwave and cut in half lengthwise;
- The process of assembling the fillet-o-fish is as follows: grease half of the bun with one teaspoon of sauce, place the fish on top with the cheese down, coat with the same amount of tartar and cover with the second half.
Simple Homemade Fishburger with Grilled Fish
This homemade fishburger recipe is perfect for fish lovers. This fast food You can take it with you to work or eat it on the road. Also, this dish goes well with white wine and beer.
You will need:
- Two buns;
- White fish fillet - 200 g;
- Two tomatoes and lettuce leaves;
- 2 slices of processed cheese;
- Fish seasoning - 2 small spoons;
- Garlic sauce - one and a half large spoons;
- Lemon juice - to taste;
Cooking step by step:
- Cut the fillet into large pieces according to the size of the buns and send to marinate in seasonings and lemon juice for a couple of hours;
- Transfer the pieces to the grill and roast for 15 minutes on each side. You can also bake fish in the oven or fry in a pan without adding oil;
- Divide the rolls into two equal halves. If desired, you can make them crispy by frying in a pan or directly over an open fire;
- Spread generously garlic sauce one half of each of the rolls and place a piece of fish on them;
- Put a plate of cheese on top, grease with sauce so that the Fishburger is not dryish;
- Next, put the lettuce and tomatoes, cut into circles;
- We cover all this splendor with the second half of the bun and enjoy the amazing taste of the burger.
Fishburger with fish cake
Ingredients:
- 3 medium potatoes;
- 2 rolls;
- Salmon fillet (without skin) - 300 g;
- Small onion;
- 4 pickled cucumbers;
- Thick natural yogurt- 3 large spoons;
- Flour - a large spoon;
- A sprig of tarragon;
- Lettuce leaves;
- Olive oil for frying.
Step by step preparation:
- We clean the boiled potatoes in their uniforms and knead with a fork;
- In a blender, grind the fish together with the onion, combine the resulting mixture with potatoes, mix and add;
- We sculpt 4 flat-shaped cutlets from minced fish, dip them in flour, cool a little, then fry in a pan in oil for 3 minutes on each side;
- Mix the crushed leaves of tarragon with yogurt, cut the cucumbers into circles;
- Divide the rolls into two equal parts. Lay on one half, first lettuce leaves, then fish cake, then cucumbers. Brush with a tablespoon of the yogurt-based sauce and cover with the other half of the bun.
Video: Fishburger Recipe (File-o-fish)
Why is that? It is difficult to answer this question precisely, but most likely due to its specificity and composition. We are not talking about size here, since a cheeseburger of a similar size is one of the most purchased products.
History
Origin Filet-o-Fish is probably the most interesting and memorable. It was invented by the Cincinnati, Ohio franchisee Lou Groen in 1962.
Gron owned restaurants located in the Catholic area and, accordingly, its main visitors were Catholics. By tradition, they did not eat meat products on Fridays, and this had a direct impact on business on this seemingly profitable day of the week.
The sandwich has become popular among people who don't eat meat or have any dietary or religious restrictions. So, for example, in Islam, the fish used in Filet-o-Fish is considered an acceptable product, as they call halal. In some countries, the product became popular during Lent.
Filet-o-Fish was the first meat-free sandwich that McDonald's managed to introduce to its menu. Interesting fact from that time: Gron and Krok entered into a kind of deal - they began to sell 2 meat-free sandwiches on Fridays. The first one Kroc came up with was the Hula Burger (grilled pineapple with cheese on a cold bun). And the second product was a fish sandwich from Gron. Only one product was supposed to win and remain on the menu. Filet-o-Fish won. That was in 1963 and 2 years later in 1965 this product was introduced nationally.
Composition
Fele o' Fish has very few components in its composition: a regular bun, tartar sauce, breaded fish fillet and half Cheddar cheese.
Bulka
The basis of the sandwich is the so-called regular bun. It is also used in the preparation of hamburger, cheeseburger and double cheeseburger. In the case of Filet-o-Fish, the bun is not heated in a toaster, but steamed in a special steamer or steamer, as it is called in the McDonald's kitchen.
In restaurants, such rolls are delivered in plastic boxes, similar to other rolls:, or.
Two layers of 30 pieces each. The manufacturer packs them in 4 towers of 20 pieces each and they are delivered on special pallets to the central warehouses, and from there to restaurants. Since this is the most used bun, regular buns are mostly shipped as packaged by the manufacturer. If necessary, of course, the pallet with rolls is divided into several parts.
Tartar sauce
Sauce taken from french cuisine perfect for fish. The sauce is prepared on the basis of the yolk, vegetable oil and vinegar, with the addition of spices and chopped pickles. More details in the photo below.
Most sauces come in special tubes and are very convenient to use in a dispenser gun. Tartar sauce at McDonald's is no exception. The box contains 22 such tubes of 700 milliliters. For one Filet-o-Fish sandwich, 20 milliliters of sauce are dosed.
Fish fillet
McDonald's uses fish from cod family, for example, silver saithe or pollack, southern blue whiting, hoki. The meat of these fish is dietary, low in fat.
It is supplied to restaurants in blocks of 4 boxes, each box contains 42 fillets, in a block 168.
Breaded fish fillets are packed in three rows in a box.
Cheddar cheese
We have already dwelled on it in the description of other McDonald's products. main feature, with regards to Filet-o-Fish, this is that only half a slice of cheese is used. The reason is not the economy. The fact is that the fish fillet is rectangular in shape and when using a whole piece of cheese, it will melt only in the center, that is, in the place where it comes into contact with the fillet.
calories
According to the Russian official website, calorie filet-o-fish is 320 kcal. In Australia, the calorie content of the product is 303 kcal, and in the USA at the same time it is much more - as much as 390 kcal. Such slight fluctuations are, of course, due to different suppliers around the world and various other features, such as the fat content of fish and so on.
Here is a photo with information about from the product packaging.
Appearance
A box with ready-made Filet-o-Fish or as it is sometimes called Fish Mac looks pretty nice.
The finished product looks modest due to the small number of ingredients in the recipe.
In the US, Filet-o-Fish was removed from the menu for a short time: from September 26, 1996 to March 22, 1998. Instead, the company introduced another version of it - Fish Filet Deluxe.
In November 2007, McDonald's was forced to reduce its use of New Zealand grenadier in its fillet production due to declining fish numbers and the allowable commercial catch set by the New Zealand Department of Fisheries. The company was forced to look for a supplier elsewhere.
McDonald's tries to use fish only from areas that are approved by the non-profit organization MSC (Marine Stewardship Council) - Marine Stewardship Council. This, by the way, is also indicated by the organization's logo on the product packaging.
Every year it becomes more and more difficult to find fish from the regions certified by the Marine Stewardship Council.
At the end, you can watch one of the company's promotional videos about the fish supplier.
Hello!
My eldest son loves Filet-o-fish very much, and this love is very, very strong. Once a month he gets his own bun. Some time ago, he once told me, "Mom, it would really be cool if my favorite bun had not one cutlet, but two, just like in yours" (meaning Big Mac).
McDonald's heard a child's dream and fulfilled it by adding to the menu DOUBLE FILLET-O-FISH.
I used to cook this burger myself, but after Iglo products disappeared from the shelves, finding a delicious breaded fish fillet became a problem. Therefore, I still prefer the McDuck burger.
Its cost is not much more expensive than the usual Filet-o-fish, only 150 RUBLES (25 rubles more expensive).
The packaging is identical to the single, except that there is a sticker in the double
Inside we are waiting for a very lush, tender burger with two fish cakes, delicious sauce and cheese.
Two pieces of fish fillet (cod family), served on a fluffy steamed bun with half a slice of Cheddar cheese. Sandwich topped with tartar sauce.
There are legends about the bun. The same, steamed, tender, airy, light. It is so weightless that remorse does not torment you when you eat it on a diet :) For some reason, the bun loves to stick to the top cover (and to the teeth of especially picky customers). My son is always happy if he managed to peel it off without damage)
Tartar sauce is not the best here, but you can’t call it nasty either. Not quite mayonnaise, the taste goes well with fish. Sour for me, the child sometimes asks to order without sauce (but this way the burger becomes dryish)
And of course the fish cakes themselves. Very tasty, crispy, flavorful. I am glad that this is really a full-fledged fillet, and not minced fish.
Ease of cut, minimalism. Not a single extra detail. No desire to add vegetables. All ingredients are perfectly matched.
And most importantly, Filet-o-fish is one of the most "correct" burgers at McDonald's. The calorie content is not quite low, but for a lunchtime snack without any potatoes and Coca-Cola, it’s quite a worthy option (when you want to treat yourself)
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Filet-o-fish, as I wrote above, I used to cook at home, the children always ate this "home top" with delight
For 6 buns I knead the dough:
300 ml of warm milk, half a kilo of flour, a couple of tablespoons of sugar, a spoonful of salt, 60 grams butter, yeast. I form the dough that has come up into flat cakes, let it come up, you can sprinkle with sesame seeds if desired. Bake, let cool.
Well, then I cut it and fill it to taste: before it was Iglo fish sticks (and now if I come across another fish fillet breaded), baby sauce tartar (sour cream, a little yogurt, grated pickled cucumber, garlic), and of course a slice of cheese (sometimes cheddar, and sometimes I take it for a cheeseburger).
Delicious and quite easy!
Have a delicious day everyone! See you soon!
