Ingredients:
- 0.7 kg pike fillet with the skin;
- 150 g of fresh bacon;
- 1 egg;
- 1 carrot;
- 2 bulbs;
- 50 g of hard cheese;
- 1 tbsp. cooked black lentils;
- 1 tbsp. wheat flakes;
- 1 tbsp tomato paste;
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil;
- 200 ml of sour cream;
- 1 handful dried leaf of celery;
- ½ Tsp of black pepper;
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Pike is cleaned of scale, gut and wash. The prepared carcass to ispolzovatj the fillets, pulling out only the ridge.
- Bacon cut into small pieces, one onion peeled and cut in 4 slices.
- Pike fillets, bacon and onion mince, alternating them with each other.
- Hard cheese rubbed on a fine grater. Black lentils, rinse and boil until tender, following instructions on the package.
- Wheat flakes pour in a bowl, pour boiling water and leave to swell for literally 2-3 minutes. After this time the excess liquid is carefully poured out the cereal to cool and add to the minced pike.
- There beat in an egg, put cheese, celery and cooked lentils. Dress it with salt and pepper, mix thoroughly until smooth stuffing.
- Take a baking dish with high sides and grease it with oil.
- Hands well wet in cold water. With wet hands roll into meatballs (big balls), firmly put them in the form and send for 10 minutes in oven preheated to 200 degrees. During this time, pike rissoles will seize and will acquire a light crust.
- The second onion peel and thinly slice with a knife. Carrots rubbed on a coarse grater. Prepared vegetables put in a pan and fry gently in sunflower oil until Golden brown.
- In any capacity to combine the sour cream and tomato paste. This mixture, season with salt and pepper, top up with plain water. Water is needed in order to the sauce completely covered the meatballs.
- Set the meatballs preheat the oven, cover them with vegetable zazharkoy, pour sour cream sauce and again send in the oven. Bake a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. During this time the meatballs will saturate the sauce and the sauce take delicious brown crust.
- Ready pike meatballs with millet and lentils remove from the oven, sprinkle on plates, decorate with greens with cherry tomatoes and serve.