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

 * 1) Clean and wash the pike and remove its head.
 * 2) Starting from the head, skin the carefully. If there remains any meat sticking to the skin, scrape with a knife.
 * 3) Salt and skin and leave aside.
 * 4) Debone the and grind it with the milk (or water) moistened bread and with the finely chopped and oil fried onion.
 * 5) Add salt, pepper, a teaspoon of chopped parsley and two beaten eggs to the mixture.
 * 6) Mix well and stuff the pike skin (do not overstuff or it may burst while boiling).
 * 7) Make small balls from the remaining mixture.
 * 8) Take a pot and put a whole onion, the thinly sliced carrot and beet, as well as the bones into it.
 * 9) Then add the stuffed fish, head, small balls and 2 qts / 2 l of water.
 * 10) Let boil, covered, at low temperature.
 * 11) 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.
 * 12) Arrange the balls and a few lemon slices around it.
 * 13) Serve with mustard sauce.