If at the moment you are wondering how to make a silver carp, then you are already very lucky. The fact is that the silver carp is very rarely available for sale, therefore, those who know a lot about this fish make pre-orders so that the seller leaves them.
Any fisherman will say that catching a silver carp is a great success, as he does not bite at the worm or at other food. This fish feeds exclusively on plankton. And in spite of everything grows to large sizes.
Its meat is tender, soft, without foreign smell. Apparently, dietary effect. But, paradoxically, her meat is very fat. So much so that when gutting along with the insides, layers of fat are taken out. Many housewives just throw it away. But it is very useful and is similar in composition to the fat of marine fish. Maybe that's why silver carp is recommended to be included in the dietary and children's menu, as well as to be eaten by those who have problems with the digestive tract.
The subtleties of cooking baked silver carp
- Since the silver carp has very fatty meat, they try not to fry it, but to bake it. When baking, the meat is soaked in fat, so it does not dry out, but remains soft and juicy.
- For the same reason, carp is often baked with potatoes, which easily absorb fish oil and it turns out very tasty.
- Silver Carp goes well with onions, carrots, tomatoes.
- Lemon is a must-have ingredient. It is lemon juice that refines the taste of fish, destroys the fishy smell, adds the missing piquancy.
- While cooking silver carp, you should not get involved in spices and spices. A classic bouquet of spices, which includes pepper, dill, bay leaf and salt, is enough for the fish to acquire a delicate flavor. Instead of salt and pepper, you can use any seasoning for fish, in which all spices are selected in perfect proportions.
- Silver carp before baking, you can not lubricate anything: thanks to the fat on it and so there will be an appetizing crust.
- If you like to bake fish with some sauce, use sour cream or ketchup. But from mayonnaise is better to give up, because the fish will be very fat.
- Do not use garlic seasonings. The smell of garlic does not mix well with silver carp meat.
- Silver carp can be baked whole (if it fits in the oven), stuffed with vegetables or porridge. It can be cut into large steaks and baked, watered with sour cream or sprinkled with cheese.
- This fish is often baked in foil. Then all the juice remains inside a kind of container and the meat is especially tender.
- Silver Carp is a bony fish. But his bones are very large, they are easy to remove, so many people treat this fact calmly.
Silver carp baked in sour cream in the oven
Ingredients:
- silver carp - one carcass weighing 1 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- seasoning for fish - 6 g;
- low-fat sour cream - 60 g;
- salt;
- Dill green - 2 sprigs.
Preparation Method
- Clean the fish. Silver Carp has very small scales, so this procedure should be carried out carefully. Cut off the head (she goes to the soup), cut the belly, gut. Wash fat and set aside. Wash the carcass in cold water. Blot with paper towels.
- Rub on all sides and inside with seasoning for fish. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Place the fish on a baking sheet covered with foil. Place two slices of lemon inside the fish. Put the sprigs of dill and the fat removed from the belly.
- Mix sour cream with a pinch of salt. Spread it carp.
- Heat the oven to 180 °. Send there a baking tray with fish, bake for 40 minutes.
Silver carp baked with vegetables in the oven
Ingredients:
- Silver Carp - 1 pc. (1 kg);
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- onions - 300 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- tomatoes - 250 g;
- seasoning for fish - 4 g;
- salt;
- sour cream - 60 g;
- bay leaf - 1 pc .;
- ketchup - 60 g;
- salt.
Preparation Method
- Silver carp clean, gut, cut off the head, wash the carcass.
- Rub spices from all sides, sprinkle with lemon juice. Leave for twenty minutes for pickling.
- Chop onion into thin half-rings, cut carrot into thin slices. Cut the tomatoes into slices.
- Cover with foil baking sheet. Put the fish. Place onions, tomatoes and carrots inside the carcass. Add bay leaf and 2-3 slices of lemon. Spread the remaining onions, carrots and tomatoes around the fish. Put the fish out of the fish on them.
- In a cup, mix sour cream and ketchup. Pour fish and vegetables with this sauce.
- Place in a heated oven. Bake 40-45 minutes at 180 °.
Silver Carp Baked with Potatoes in the Oven
Ingredients:
- silver carp - 1 pc .;
- potatoes - 400 g;
- onions - 200 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- pepper;
- salt;
- bay leaf - 1 pc .;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- sour cream - 140 g;
- seasoning for potatoes - 4 g;
- young dill - 20 g;
- vegetable oil - 10 g.
Preparation Method
- Silver Carp clean, gut, wash, dry. Grate with salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Cut onion into half rings, chop carrot into strips.
- Boil the potatoes until half cooked. Cool it down. Cut into thick slices.
- Place the fish on a greased baking tray. Inside place a piece of onion and carrot, as well as 2-3 slices of lemon.
- Put the potatoes around the fish. Sprinkle with seasoning for potatoes. Put the remaining onions and carrots on the potatoes. If there was fat inside the fish, cut it into pieces and spread it over the vegetables.
- Mix sour cream with salt and chopped dill. Cover this sauce with fish.
- Put in the oven, bake for 50 minutes.
Silver Carp Baked in the Oven in Foil
Ingredients:
- silver carp - carcass;
- onions - 150 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- tomatoes - 250 g;
- dry white wine - 50 ml;
- seasoning for fish - 4 g;
- black pepper, if desired;
- cheese - 90 g.
Preparation Method
- Cut prepared silver carp cut across wide steaks.
- Sprinkle with white wine, sprinkle with seasoning for fish. Leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
- Chop the onion and carrot into strips; cut the tomatoes into slices.
- Take a sheet of foil, put a layer of carrots in the middle. Put a steak on it. Cover it with onions. Put 2-3 mugs of tomato on the onion.
- Lift the edges of the foil, tightly connect each other in the form of a dome, leaving enough space inside for steam.
- Place sealed steaks on a baking sheet. Put in the oven. Bake 25 minutes at 170 °.
- Then open the foil, leaving the sides on all sides. Sprinkle the fish with grated cheese.
- Continue baking for another 15 minutes.
- Serve in foil.
Silver carp with soy sauce, baked in the oven
Ingredients:
- silver carp - 1 pc .;
- soy sauce - 20 g;
- paprika - 5 g;
- lemon juice - 40 g;
- pinch sugar;
- vegetable oil - 10 g;
- freshly grated ginger - 1 tbsp. l .;
- seasoning for fish - 5 g.
Preparation Method
- Cut and cleaned fish cut across the carcass into chunks.
- In a bowl, mix soy sauce, paprika, fish seasoning, grated ginger, sugar and lemon juice. In this marinade, pickle the fish for one hour.
- Put on a baking sheet covered with foil and oiled.
- Put in the oven, bake for 35 minutes.
Tip. To make the fish more juicy, cover it with foil during baking. Remove the foil 10 minutes before the end of cooking.
Mistress of the note
If the fish is not very large and you are going to cook it with your head, gut it without cutting the abdomen. To do this, cut the head to the spine, remove the insides through the hole, rinse the carcass thoroughly. Be sure to remove the gills, otherwise the fish will taste bitter.
Cut fish into steaks until it is completely thawed. Then the pieces will be more accurate.
If the fish is pickled with the addition of soy sauce or seasoning for fish, you can do without salt.
If you bake fish in foil, leave room for free air circulation, then the fish will cook faster.
