Cooks all over the world use fish in their recipes. They are used to prepare salads, pates, main and first courses. Today we will focus on freshwater fish - carp. From it can come out as a good everyday dish, and a festive treat.
Carp is one of the few fish species whose meat has a sweetish taste. Fish lovers cook fish soup from it, bake and fry with vegetables in a pan. However, no matter how you decide to cook carp, it will still be delicious. A dish of this fish is combined with almost all vegetables and it is very difficult to spoil it.
Consider a selection of the most popular and equally delicious recipes.
Carp with herbs
One of the most interesting dishes among culinary experts is carp baked in foil. This dish retains the taste and aroma of fish and does not contain excess fat.
To prepare carp according to this recipe, you need the following ingredients:
- 1 large carp, weighing at least 1 kg;
- a large bunch of greens (parsley, dill);
- 1 head of garlic;
- mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons;
- sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons;
- salt and pepper to taste.
- The step-by-step cooking of fish begins with the processing of carp. The fish must be cleaned of scales and offal and washed thoroughly.
- Pass the garlic through a garlic press and grate the fish carcass with the resulting mixture on all sides.
- The belly of the carp must be cut longitudinally and the chopped greens should be placed there.
- Take a small baking sheet and brush with vegetable oil.
- Put the foil on a baking sheet and put the fish on it.
- Grease the surface of the fish with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Wrap the dish in foil.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake fish for 1 hour.
- Open the foil 10 minutes before readiness so that a golden brown crust forms on the fish.
- Serve the dish warm. Sprinkle with herbs thoroughly.
Carp with sour cream with onions
As you know, sour cream gives fish a more refined and delicate taste. In addition, such a dish contains a minimum amount of calories, so it can be safely called dietary.
To prepare a delicious dish, you will need the following products:
- large carp weighing 1, 5 - 2 kg;
- sour cream with a fat content of at least 25% - 250 g;
- sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons;
- onions - 4 pieces;
- salt and pepper to taste.
- At the initial stage of cooking, the fish must be cleaned of scales and gutted. The carp is cut across.
- Rub the fish with salt and pepper. Leave on for 10 minutes.
- Cut the onions into rings. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle the resulting onion mixture with vegetable oil.
- Put the fish on a baking sheet, which is pre-greased with oil.
- Stuff the gutted fish with the onion mixture and fasten with toothpicks.
- The rest of the onion mixture is spread around the carp carcass.
- Sour cream must be diluted to the state of yogurt. To do this, mix it with 100 ml of water. Add spices. Stir well.
- Pour the sour cream sauce over the carp into a baking dish.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Bake the dish for half an hour.
- Serve the finished dish hot, cut into small pieces.
Nutritious carp with new potatoes
This dish is perfect for a family dinner. It will turn out to be not only tasty and healthy, but also very satisfying.
For cooking, you will need the following products:
- fresh carp weighing at least 1.5 kg;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sour cream 25% - 200 g;
- medium-sized young potatoes - 10-12 pieces;
- onions - 3-4 heads;
- salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove scales from fish, gut and rinse thoroughly under running water. On the prepared fish, small cuts must be made over the entire surface of the carcass. So the carp will be better marinated and baked.
- Grate the fish with a mixture of salt and pepper. Drizzle with juice from one large lemon. Leave the fish to marinate for 10-15 minutes.
- Cut the potatoes into wedges. Season with pepper and salt. If you are using new potatoes for the dish, you do not need to cut the skin.
- Grease a baking tray with sunflower oil and line the potatoes in an even layer.
- Lubricate the potato layer with sour cream. Season with pepper and salt to taste.
- Cut the onion into half rings and lay the next layer over the potatoes.
- Put the carp on the onion and carefully coat it with sour cream.
- Heat the oven to 190 degrees and bake the dish for 40 minutes.
Garlic carp in a pan
The dish is fast cooking and minimal ingredients. To prepare it you need:
- large carp - 1 kg;
- butter - 1 tablespoon;
- garlic - half a head;
- sour cream 25% - 2 tablespoons;
- salt and pepper to taste.
- The fish must be cleaned of scales, gutted, rinsed thoroughly and cut into portions.
- Pass the garlic through a garlic press and mix with salt and pepper.
- Grate the fish with the resulting mixture.
- Preheat a deep frying pan, pour in a small amount of oil.
- Smear the fish with sour cream and put in a frying pan.
- Fry until golden brown.
- Serve the finished dish along with the garlic sauce and herbs.
Carp with vegetables and mushrooms
This dish will perfectly fit into any diet due to its low calorie content and excellent taste. To prepare it you need:
- carp - 2 kg;
- sweet pepper - 2 pieces;
- onions - 1 piece;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- fresh champignons, or other mushrooms - 300 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
- salt and pepper to taste.
- Prepare the fish. Make small cuts across the entire surface of the fish.
- Cut the lemon into thin half rings. Place them in the incisions. Pour the remaining juice over the fish, which must first be salted and pepper to taste.
- Cut the onions into half rings.
- Cut the carrots into slices and place in a separate bowl.
- Chop the pepper into small strips, place on the carrots.
- Peel the champignons, rinse, cut into thick slices.
- Fry the mushrooms with the addition of olive oil.
- Fry vegetables separately in a pan with a minimum addition of salt.
- Grease a baking tray with vegetable oil.
- Place vegetables on a baking sheet. Then place mushrooms on them.
- Put the fish on the resulting vegetable-mushroom "pillow".
- Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour.
Carp "in Jewish"
Such a dish is quite difficult to prepare, but all efforts will not be in vain. Stuffed carp "in a Jewish way" will surprise even gourmet gourmets.
To prepare a unique and unusual dish, you need the following products:
- carp weighing at least 1.5 kg;
- 1 large chicken egg;
- onion crackers - 7-8 pieces;
- 7 medium onions;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- seasonings to taste;
- vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Peel the carp with a sharp knife. Cut off the head in half. Break the spine so that the head does not separate from the body. Carefully remove the skin from the fish to keep it intact. Turn out the skin and separate the fish meat from the bones.
- Rinse the meat.
- Cut three onions into thin half rings, add salt and pepper to taste. The trick to the recipe is to add a little baking soda. Add water and bring mixture to a boil. The mixture should turn brown.
- Grind the crackers with a blender. Add 3 yolks. Beat thoroughly with a blender until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
- Add the resulting onion "jam" to the mixture. To stir thoroughly.
- Beat the whites until firm peaks and add to the resulting minced meat.
- For a vegetable cushion, cut the onion and carrot into thin rings and place on a baking sheet.
- Lay out the ridge with bones and skin on the sides. Cover with gauze.
- Fill the carp skin with minced meat so that it does not burst during frying.
- Pour salted water over the fish carcass, cover with foil.
- Cook at 190 degrees for 1.5 hours.
- Cool the finished dish and decorate with mayonnaise and herbs.