Fish Fried in a Cheese Crust

A simple and tasty dish – fried sea fish with a hard cheese crust. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater, mix with an egg, cover the fish pieces in flour with this mixture and fry in a pan. The cheese crust retains all the juiciness of the fish fillet during frying and gives a more interesting taste.

Cook: 50 minutes

Servings: 8

Ingredients

• Sea fish (fillet) – 600 g
• Hard cheese – 100 g
• Eggs – 2-3 pcs.
• Wheat flour – 4 tbsp
• Butter – 25 g
• Vegetable oil – 75 ml
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
• Soy sauce – 1 tbsp
• Salt – 1/5 teaspoon
• Ground black pepper – 1/5 teaspoon (to taste_
• Dried Provencal herbs – 0.5 teaspoon

Directions

1. Cut the fish into large pieces (I divided the fillet into 4 pieces).

   

2. Place the fish pieces in a bowl, add lemon juice, soy sauce, provencal herbs, salt, and black pepper.
3. Leave the fish to marinate in the refrigerator for 20-25 minutes.
4. For the batter, pour the sifted wheat flour into one bowl, beat the eggs into the other.
5. Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater. Spread the eggs with a fork and add cheese to them.
6. Heat a mixture of vegetables (I used refined sunflower) and butter in a frying pan.
7. Remove the pieces of fish fillet from the marinade and roll in flour on all sides.
8. Then transfer the fish fillets to a bowl of eggs and cheese and dip. The fish should be covered with cheese on all sides.
9. Place the fish in a skillet with heated oil and fry over medium heat for 4-5 minutes.
10. Turn over and fry the fish for another 3-4 minutes on the other side.
11. Transfer the fried pieces of fish to a paper towel so that the paper absorbs the excess fat.
12. From this amount of ingredients, a whole saucepan of delicious fish, fried in a cheese crust, turned out.

    

13. Serve this fish with mashed potatoes and fresh vegetable salad.

Enjoy your meal!