Dried bream and ram

Salted dried bream is a real delicacy. Dried ram is no less tasty, many people like to eat it with beer. To make the fish tasty, a number of rules must be observed when salting.

Ingredients

• bream 7 pcs.
• ram 5 pcs.
• salt 150 - 200 g per 1 kg of fish

Directions

1. First, you need to buy or catch fish. My husband and I caught bream and ram in the Don. We use a cooler bag to transport the fish home to keep the fish as cold as possible. Upon arrival home, we put the fish in the freezer for a couple of hours so that it cools well.
2. Wash bream and ram thoroughly. Pour salt into the gills of each fish. Pour some salt into the bottom of a large bowl. Lay out the fish and cover it with a thin layer of salt. In this way, lay out all the fish. Put some kind of board or lid on the fish, place a load on top. Put the dishes with fish in the refrigerator for 7 to 10 days. The fish will let the juice out. Every day, the fish must be taken out of the refrigerator and squeezed with your hands so that all the air comes out of it.
3. After the salting time has elapsed, the fish must be soaked. To do this, you need to rinse it from salt and put it in a basin with cold water. You can soak it from several hours to a day, depending on the size of the fish. I usually soak for a day, during which time I change the water 2 times. I also put the dishes with the soaked fish in the refrigerator.
4. I soak small fish - bastards and rams separately from large ones and less in time.
5. After soaking, the drying time comes. If there is no special device for drying fish, then we will dry it in a simple "old-fashioned" way - on a clothesline. Hang the bream and ram on a rope using metal hooks, preferably in the shade and in a draft.
6. So that no insects, mainly green flies, get into the fish, wrap the fish with gauze in 2 - 3 layers and secure with clothespins. Dry the fish for 4 - 5 days. The time depends on the size of the fish and whether you want the fish to be drier or wetter.
7. After drying, wrap the bream and ram in parchment and put in the freezer. Remove from the freezer before use and defrost a little at room temperature. Cut fragrant sun-dried bream into thin slices and serve with any kind of potatoes or beer.
8. Dried ram is also good for both potatoes and beer.)
9. Bon Appetit!