Silver Carp is the only freshwater fish whose fat, like that of many marine fish, can lower cholesterol levels in the blood. In addition, this product has other beneficial properties, high nutritional value and low calorie content. However, not all housewives delight their loved ones with dishes from this fish of the carp family. If you know how to cook a silver carp so that it is tasty, then you can diversify the menu with many healthy dishes.
Cooking Features
Cooking freshwater fish requires knowledge of several subtleties. Only taking into account certain rules, we can expect that the dish will turn out tender, juicy, tasty. Silver Carp is no exception. Before you choose what to cook from the silver carp, you need to learn how to cook it correctly.
- Fresh fish, no matter how it is cooked, turns out to be juicier than it was when it was frozen. Therefore, silver carp is desirable to acquire, if not alive, then still fresh. However, fresh silver carp is not stored for long, so if you do not plan to use it immediately after it has been caught, then it is frozen. So that because of this, the product does not suffer much, it is recommended to thaw it slowly, with a minimum change in temperature. In other words, the fish should be thawed in the fridge, while the process can be accelerated with warm water or a microwave. Otherwise, carp will be dry and shapeless.
- Many people do not like carp for a large number of bones. Therefore, when cooking this fish entirely, a lot of frequent cuts are made with a knife on its back, without cutting the spinal bone. As a result, the bones are crushed and safe.
- To give the carp a pleasant smell, it can be pickled before cooking, rubbed with spices, herbs, and sprinkled with lemon juice.
- If you fry a silver carp in a pan, then it is desirable to breaded it in flour. Breading will create a protective layer that will keep the fish juicy. In addition, you can put pieces of fish only in a strongly heated skillet with boiling oil. Otherwise, they will stick to the pan, and it will be difficult to turn them over without damaging the integrity. Do not regret oil, it should reach the middle of the roasting pieces.
The particular features of cooking a silver carp may depend on the specific recipe. Therefore, it is highly undesirable to ignore recommendations given in recipes.
Silver Carp on the first: fish hodgepodge
Composition:
- silver carp - 0, 7 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- tomato paste - 40 ml;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- pickles - 0, 2 kg;
- pitted olives - 10 pcs .;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- sour cream - to taste;
- salt, pepper mixture - to taste;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the carp, clean and gut it if you have an unprepared carcass. Rinse again. Armed with a large flat knife, cut the carp meat from the bone. Carefully inspect the fillet pieces, remove the bones from it.
- In a small bowl, squeeze the juice from half a lemon. Mix it with seasoning, rub the fish fillets and leave for 15 minutes.
- Cucumbers cut into small strips.
- Peel onions, cut into thin half rings.
- Heat the vegetable oil in the pan, fry in it until golden brown onions. Add the cucumbers to the onions and cook them with the onions for 10 minutes. The fire at this time should not be too strong.
- Add tomato paste and a tablespoon of cucumber pickle. Extinguish 10 more minutes.
- Cut the fish fillets into small pieces, put them in a saucepan and cover with water. Put the pot with the silver carp on the fire and wait until its contents boil. After that, reduce the heat, put laurel leaves in a saucepan, salt and pepper the water to taste.
- Cook the silver carp for 15 minutes, then add the onion and pickled cucumbers to the pan.
- Cook another 10 minutes, after which the dish is ready.
Serve a carp mustard with lemon wedges, olives and sour cream. It is difficult to find a person who does not like this dish.
How to pickle carp
Composition:
- silver carp fillet - 1 kg;
- salt - 50 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 100 ml;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- vegetable oil - 150 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry the silver carp fillet with kitchen napkins. Check if there are any bones left in the fillet. Cut it into small pieces, fold it into a bowl, sprinkle each layer of fish with salt. Press down with a clean plate, placing a load on it (for example, a jar of water).
- After 3 hours, fill the fish with vinegar and send it again under pressure.
- Peel the onions, cut into thin half-rings.
- Peel carrots, grate for Korean salads or ordinary. Mix with onions.
- After another 3 hours, rinse the fish pieces to remove excess vinegar. Put it back in the bowl, pour in the vegetable mixture, cover with vegetable oil. Let it brew for another 3-6 hours in a cool place. Oppression at this stage can not install.
- After a specified time, silver carp can be served at the table as a cold snack.
It is possible to cook pickled silver carp in a different way, immediately mixing the oil with vinegar and salt, heating this mixture and filling fish pieces with it. If desired, you can add 5 g of sugar. With this method of cooking carp can be eaten after 8 hours. In any case, it doesn’t hurt to add spices and spices to the marinade to your liking. Especially well fit coriander, cumin, rosemary.
Fried Silver Carp
Composition:
- silver carp - 2 kg;
- parsley - 100 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- vegetable oil, flour - how much will go;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Clean the silver carp, cut off the head, gut, rinse well and dry with paper napkins.
- Cut the carcass lengthwise in half, remove the ridge, remove the bones from the fillet. Cut the fillets into portions.
- Crush the garlic with a special press, chop the parsley finely.
- Mix garlic and parsley with spices, add a little vegetable oil and rub each mixture of silver carp with this mixture. Leave for half an hour.
- Sift flour and mix it with salt.
- Heat a pan with a lot of oil on the stove.
- Every piece of fish, tanned in flour and put on a griddle.
- Roast on each side for 2-3 minutes until the silver carp is covered with a golden crust.
- Transfer the silver carp from the pan to the heat-resistant baking dish. Put it in a preheated 180 degree oven. Bake for 15 minutes.
If you fry a silver carp in this recipe, it will turn out not only appetizing and fragrant, but also tasty. When serving, sprinkle it well with chopped greens.
How to cook a silver carp in a slow cooker
Composition:
- silver carp - 2 kg;
- carrots - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- tomato paste - 35 g;
- soy sauce - 40 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, peel and cut the silver carp, cut into pieces about 3 cm wide. Cut each piece in half along the ridge, remove the ridge.
- Dissolve tomato paste with soy sauce, add salt, sugar, pepper to this mixture. Stir.
- Peel the carrots and chop them on a grater.
- Onions, freeing from the husk, cut into small pieces.
- Smear a bowl of multicooker with vegetable oil, put silver carp pieces into it.
- Mix carrots with onions, put the vegetables on the fish.
- Pour all prepared marinade. Leave it for 15 minutes to marinate the fish.
- Lower the multicooker lid, select the “Quenching” program and run it for 30 minutes. If the power of your unit is small, then it is desirable to increase the time by 10 minutes (that is, set the timer immediately to 40 minutes).
Silver Carp prepared according to this recipe can be served both hot and cold. It goes well with a side dish of potatoes or rice.
Silver carp baked in the oven
Composition:
- silver carp fillet - 1 kg;
- onions - 0, 3 kg;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- ground pepper, salt - to taste;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry the silver carp fillet with a kitchen towel. Cut into portions.
- Rub the fillets with a mixture of salt and pepper. Sprinkle with juice squeezed from half a lemon.
- Peel and cut the onion into half rings.
- Grease a baking dish with butter and place onion half rings into it.
- Put the pickled pieces of fish on the onion pillow.
- Lubricate the fish with sour cream.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and place in it a form with a silver carp.
- Bake the Silver Carp for 30 minutes.
When serving, pieces of silver carp can be decorated with lemon slices, parsley sprigs. Baked silver carp will be especially tasty with mashed potatoes.
There are many ways of cooking carp, recipes - even more. The main thing is to imagine how it is possible to cook the carp in the oven, in the pan, in the slow cooker; know a few subtleties and secrets. Then you can not only choose any recipe, but also create your own copyright based on the basic recipes. Then you will always have delicious soups, appetizers and main dishes with this healthy and affordable fish on your table.
