Silver Carp is among the useful products. It is not too high in calories, but it contains a lot of protein and elements necessary for the body, and its fat is similar in properties to the fat of sea fish of expensive species. The most useful and tasty it will be if you bake it. However, choosing this method of cooking, you need to learn how to cook the carp in the oven correctly. Tips from experienced chefs will help make it juicy, tender and very appetizing.
Cooking Features
Baking is one of the easiest ways to cook delicious silver carp dishes. However, cooking fish in the oven, it is important not to overdry it. In addition, you need to know the secrets of how to cook it fragrant and delicious.
- When buying a silver carp, it is better to give preference to fresh fish. When baking in the oven, it turns out to be more juicy. However, fresh silver carp should be cooked on the same day when it was purchased: freshwater fish deteriorates quickly if it is not frozen.
- If you purchased frozen silver carp, remove it from the freezer a day before cooking. Put the silver carp in the fridge and wait until it is completely thawed. If you have patience and allow the fish to thaw out naturally without abruptly changing temperature conditions, then its properties will hardly change. Otherwise, the silver carp will lose juiciness and as a result of baking will become so dry that it will be unpleasant to eat.
- Freshwater fish usually have a peculiar smell. Silver carp, belonging to the carp family, is no exception. Therefore, when preparing it, there is a desire to neutralize or kill the specific smell with something more fragrant. Make it easy if literally half an hour pickle carp in lemon juice with spices and spicy herbs. To do this, just rub the carcass or pieces with a mixture of spices and herbs, sprinkle them with lemon juice and wait 30 minutes, while preparing other products at this time.
- Silver Carp will be more succulent if it is baked in foil or culinary sleeve. However, 20 minutes before the readiness of the foil should be unfolded so that the silver carp browned.
You can bake the silver carp in the oven in whole or in pieces. The cooking technology will depend in part on this and on the specific recipe.
Silver Carp Baked Whole
Composition:
- silver carp - 2 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- parsley - 50 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- salt, seasoning for fish - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the silver carp. Clean, gut, remove the head.
- Cut onion into half rings, pre-releasing it from the husk.
- Tomatoes wash, dry, cut into thin circles.
- Crush garlic with a special press, dilute it with a teaspoon of vegetable oil, add salt and spices. Spread the mixture of carp inside and out.
- Inside the fish, place a piece of onion, parsley, thin slices of butter.
- Grease the foil with the remaining oil, put it in a baking dish or on a baking sheet.
- Put the silver carp on the foil. Lubricate it with sour cream. Put the rest of the bow on it. Spread tomato circles on it and next to it. Cover with another sheet of foil and place in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.
- Bake the Silver Carp for 50 minutes. Half an hour after the start of baking, remove the top layer of foil so that the silver carp browns.
It is better to serve the silver carp prepared according to this recipe, garnished with fresh herbs and tomatoes, with which it was baked in the oven.
Silver Carp Baked Whole with Potatoes
Composition:
- silver carp - 2 kg;
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- lemon - 2 pcs .;
- tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 30 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the silver carp for baking by cleaning it, gutting it, rinsing it well, and blotting it with paper napkins.
- Squeeze the juice from one lemon and mix it with mayonnaise.
- Peel the onions from the husk, cut into small pieces and add to the sauce, mix.
- Add salt, pepper and other spices to your sauce. Thickly coat the carp carcass with them both from above and inside. Leave for half an hour in a cool place.
- Slice tomatoes into thin slices. For slicing tomatoes, it is best to use a special knife with very fine teeth. Due to the fact that it is very sharp, the juice from the tomatoes will not flow out.
- Wash and peel potatoes. Cut it into round slices or slices, salt and season, focusing on your taste.
- At the bottom of the baking dish, lay a foil sheet and brush it with vegetable oil, lay out a layer of potatoes.
- Place silver carp in lemon and mayonnaise pickled foil.
- Cut the remaining lemon into thin slices. Spread it on a silver carp with slices of tomatoes.
- Turn on the oven and wait until its temperature reaches 200 degrees.
- Put a silver carp into the oven and bake it for 50 minutes. If it starts to burn, cover it with a clean sheet of foil.
Potatoes, soaked with fish juice, turn out very tasty. The silver carp itself, pickled in lemon sauce, will also be tender, juicy and fragrant.
Silver carp baked in tomato sauce slices
Composition:
- silver carp - 2 kg;
- tomato paste - 50 ml;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- dried basil - 10 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Silver Carp clean, gut and wash. Drain with a kitchen towel and cut into pieces about 3 cm wide.
- Cut the silver carp pieces along the ridge, remove the spinal bone itself from the pieces.
- Mix tomato paste with two tablespoons of vegetable oil, squeeze garlic into this mixture, add salt and pepper to taste.
- Spread tomato-oil mixture with garlic and pepper pieces of silver carp.
- Wash potatoes, peel, cut into slices.
- Mix with the remaining oil, salt and sprinkle with dried basil.
- In the baking dish, make a foil bed. In the center, place the silver carp pieces, marinated in tomato sauce. Potato slices spread around the perimeter. Cover the form with another piece of foil.
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees, place in it a form with silver carp. Bake 40 minutes. 15 minutes before readiness remove the top sheet of foil.
According to this recipe you get a ready-made hearty dish. You do not need to wrestle with what to cook for a side dish or with which sauce serve the silver carp.
Silver Carp Baked with Vegetables
Composition:
- silver carp fillet - 1 kg;
- beets - 150 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- onions - 150 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 20 ml;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- sour cream - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Silver carp fillet cut into portion pieces about 5-6 cm wide.
- Mix vegetable oil with vinegar. Pass the garlic through the press. Add pepper and salt. Mix everything.
- Cover the silver carp fillet with the resulting mixture, leave in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Peel and wash raw vegetables. Finely chop the onion, rub the beetroot and carrot. Mix vegetables.
- Put the silver carp pieces in a foil-shaped dish. Put a mixture of vegetables on top of each piece. Lubricate it with sour cream.
- Place the form in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake the dish for 35 minutes.
The carp for this recipe will almost certainly be wanted by people who take care of their health. This dish is not only tasty, but also useful.
There are quite a few recipes for cooking carp in the oven. For many of them you can bake it with vegetables. In this case, you get a full-fledged dish, which is not required to additionally prepare a side dish.
