Fishcakes are no less tasty and healthy than meat. This is a versatile dish that can be served with different side dishes. You can take any kind of fish as a basis, including affordable ones. The silver carp cutlets will be relatively inexpensive and will appeal to both adults and children. From several popular recipes, the hostess will be able to choose the one that she finds more to her liking.
Cooking Features
Silver Carp has several advantages, thanks to which cutlets from it turn out to be tender and tasty. It is fat enough to remain soft and juicy with proper preparation. It is not too many small bones, which facilitates cutting it into fillets and allows you to get a smooth consistency of minced meat. Silver Carp does not have a pronounced smell of river fish, an aromatic dish of it can be prepared without the use of spicy seasonings. However, from him cutlets do not come from all chefs. For the result to please you, you need to know and take into account a few points.
- For cutlets, use fresh fish.
- Do not chop the silver carp in the stuffing along with the bones. At the first stage of cooking it needs to be cleaned and cut into fillets.
- Choose large specimens: they have fewer small stones that are difficult to detect and remove.
- Through the meat grinder, carp fillet needs to be scrolled several times. This will allow you to get a more delicate texture, grind small bones, if you accidentally left some of them when cutting fish.
- Using a blender helps to get minced meat of a delicate texture, but this device is advisable to use only if you are preparing a small amount of meatballs.
Silver carrots can be fried in a pan, baked in the oven or boiled for a couple. Classic options involve the use of a pan. For cooking products for a couple or in the oven in the stuffing does not hurt to add a little starch and breadcrumbs - this will increase their density and viscosity. Steamed silver carrot cutlets boil for 15-20 minutes, in the oven they should be baked for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
The classic carp cutlet recipe
Composition:
- silver carp fillet - 0.5 kg;
- stale white bread - 150 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- breadcrumbs - as required;
- vegetable oil - as needed;
- salt, a mixture of peppers - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Silver carp is filleted. Rinse the fillets, cut into several pieces, scroll through the meat grinder 2-3 times.
- Peel the onion, cut it into several pieces and chop it in the same way as the silver carp.
- Pass the garlic through the press.
- Mix the ground ingredients, add the eggs. Whisk until smooth. Salted and pepper.
- Dry bread in the oven, chop with a blender. Pour into the stuffing, mix. Instead of bread you can use breadcrumbs, flour.
- Make minced balls of mince, breaded in breadcrumbs and fry in boiling vegetable oil, giving 4-5 minutes to each side.
The silver carp cutlets for this recipe are tender and soft. To give them a pleasant flavor in the stuffing, you can add a little dill or parsley. Greens will suit both fresh and dried.
Silver carp cutlets with lard
Composition:
- medium-sized silver carp - 0, 7 kg;
- pork lard - 150 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- semolina - 50 g;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- flour (for breading) - as required;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
Method of preparation:
- Clean the fish, removing the head, fins. Cut into small pieces.
- Crank three times through the meat grinder.
- Cut the fat into large chunks. Scroll it, connecting with minced fish.
- Free the onion from the husk. Cut it into several pieces, chop the meat grinder.
- Mix the onions and minced meat.
- Add semolina, stir. Let stand for 10 minutes, so that the croup is slightly swollen.
- Add the egg and turn the stuffing into a homogeneous mass.
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Forming cutlets out of minced fish and roll them in flour, put them in a frying pan.
- Fry on both sides to brown crust over medium heat, then cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and then another 5 minutes.
Cutlets from silver carp with semolina and lard turn out lush, juicy. Despite the fact that the fish was crushed along with the bones, the consistency of the cutlets would not be coarse. Want more tender - take a larger fish and before turning it through a meat grinder, cut it into fillets.
Silver carp cutlets with filling
Composition:
- silver carp - 0, 8 kg;
- onions - 0, 3 kg;
- wheat bread - 150 g;
- milk - 50 ml;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- green onions - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- breadcrumbs - as required;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
Method of preparation:
- Soak the loaf in milk.
- Cheese finely grate.
- Chop the green onions.
- Two boiled eggs out of three. Peel, chop on a grater.
- Crush garlic with a hand press.
- Mix cheese with onions, garlic, eggs.
- Silver carp fillet. Turn into mincemeat using a meat grinder.
- Squeeze the bread, add to the mince.
- Break the remaining egg into a bowl with minced meat.
- Add salt, pepper, mix thoroughly.
- On the palm, form an elongated layer of minced meat.
- Put a spoonful of filling on it.
- Raise the edges upwards, fasten.
- Breaded in breadcrumbs.
- Fry in boiling oil. You need to fry for 4-5 minutes on each side. If desired, you can fry until crusty, then bring to readiness in the oven.
Silver carp cutlets are so tasty that they can decorate even a festive table.
Cooking cutlets from silver carp does not require much culinary experience. Adhering to the recipe, the novice hostess will cope with the task. The dish will turn out tasty, appetizing, will cost inexpensive.
