Stuffed and Boiled Pike

== Description ==
In Romanian: Stiuca umpluta (fiarta)
== Ingredients ==
* 1 pike (approx. 2 lbs / 1 kg)
* crustless slice of white bread
* 2 onions
* 3 tablespoons oil
* 3 eggs
* salt
* pepper
* 1 carrot
* 1 onion
* 1 beet
* 2 qts / 2 l water
* 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
* lemon
* mustard sauce
== Directions ==
# Clean and wash the pike and remove its head.
# Starting from the head, skin the carefully. If there remains any meat sticking to the skin, scrape with a knife.
# Salt and skin and leave aside.
# Debone the and grind it with the milk (or water) moistened bread and with the finely chopped and oil fried onion.
# Add salt, pepper, a teaspoon of chopped parsley and two beaten eggs to the mixture.
# Mix well and stuff the pike skin (do not overstuff or it may burst while boiling).
# Make small balls from the remaining mixture.
# Take a pot and put a whole onion, the thinly sliced carrot and beet, as well as the bones into it.
# Then add the stuffed fish, head, small balls and 2 qts / 2 l of water.
# Let boil, covered, at low temperature.
# When it is done, remove the stuffed , arrange in the middle of a long platter, cut into finger thick slices and place the head where it belongs to make it look like a whole again.
# Arrange the balls and a few lemon slices around it.
# Serve with mustard sauce.
Category:Romanian Meat Dishes
Category:Pike Recipes
Category:Bread Recipes
Category:Egg Recipes
Category:Carrot Recipes
Category:Onion Recipes
Category:Beet Recipes
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