Stuffed Baked Pike

Description
In Romanian: Stiuca umpluta la cuptor

Ingredients

 * 1 pike (approx. 2 lbs / 1 kg)
 * 2 tablespoons oil
 * crustless slice of white bread
 * 2 onions
 * 3 tablespoons oil
 * 3 eggs
 * salt
 * pepper
 * 1 carrot
 * 1 onion
 * 1 beet
 * 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
 * lemon
 * hard-boiled egg, sliced for garnish
 * 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) Arrange the stuffed fish and head, a whole onion, the thinly sliced carrot and beet in the baking dish.
 * 9) Add 2 tablespoons of oil and set in the oven to bake.
 * 10) Every now and then, baste with the oil in the dish.
 * 11) When ready, remove from the baking dish, arrange on a long platter, and after it has cooled off, slice into finger thick slices and put them all together to give the illusion of a whole fish.
 * 12) Place the in its place and garnish with slices of hard boiled egg.
 * 13) Serve with mustard sauce.