Culinary experts around the world use fish in their recipes. Salads, pastes, second and first courses are prepared from them. Today we will talk about freshwater fish - carp. A good everyday dish, as well as a festive treat, can come out of it.
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Carp is one of the few species of fish whose meat has a sweet taste. Fish lovers cook fish soup from it, bake and fry 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 no less delicious recipes.
Carp with greens
One of the most interesting dishes among culinary experts is carp baked in foil. This dish preserves the taste and aroma of fish and does not contain excess fat.
To prepare carp according to this recipe, the following ingredients are required:
- 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, pepper to taste.
- Step-by-step preparation of fish begins with carp processing. Fish must be cleaned of scales and offal and washed thoroughly.
- Pass the garlic through a garlic squeezer and grate the resulting carcass of the fish on all sides.
- The abdomen of the carp must be cut longitudinally and place the chopped greens there.
- Take a small baking sheet and grease with vegetable oil.
- Put foil on a baking sheet and put fish on it.
- Lubricate 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.
- 10 minutes before readiness, it is necessary to open the foil so that a golden crust forms on the fish.
- Serve the dish warm. Sprinkle thoroughly with herbs.
Carp with sour cream and onions
As you know, sour cream gives the fish a more refined and delicate taste. In addition, this dish contains a minimal amount of calories, so it can safely be 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, pepper to taste.
- At the initial stage of cooking, the fish must be cleaned of scales and gutted. Carp is cut across.
- Grate fish carcass with salt and pepper. Leave on for 10 minutes.
- Chop onions into rings. Salt, pepper to taste. Sprinkle the resulting onion mixture with vegetable oil.
- Put the fish on a baking sheet, which is pre-lubricated with oil.
- Stuff the gutted fish with the onion mixture and fasten with toothpicks.
- The remains of the onion mixture spread around the carcass of the carp.
- 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 onto the carp in a baking dish.
- Preheat the 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 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, pepper to taste.
- Clean fish from scales, gut and rinse thoroughly under running water. On prepared fish, it is necessary to make small incisions along the entire surface of the carcass. So the carp is better marinated and baked.
- Grate the fish with a mixture of salt and pepper. Pour juice from one large lemon. Leave the fish to marinate for 10-15 minutes.
- Cut potatoes into slices. Season with pepper and salt. If young potatoes are used for the dish, peeling is not necessary.
- Grease a baking tray for baking dishes with sunflower oil and lay the potatoes in an even layer.
- Lubricate the potato layer with sour cream. Pepper, salt to taste.
- Cut the onions in half rings and lay out the next layer on the potatoes.
- Put on the carp and carefully grease 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 distinguished by the speed of preparation and the minimum number of 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.
- Fish should be cleaned of scales, gutted, washed thoroughly and cut into portions.
- Pass the garlic through a garlic squeezer and mix with salt and pepper.
- The resulting mixture grate the fish.
- Heat a deep pan, pour a small amount of oil.
- Coat the fish with sour cream and put in a pan.
- Fry until golden brown.
- Serve the finished dish with garlic sauce and herbs.
Carp with vegetables and mushrooms
Such a dish will fit perfectly 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, pepper to taste.
- Prepare the fish. Make small incisions throughout the surface of the fish.
- Cut the lemon into thin half rings. Put them in cuts. Pour fish with the remaining juice, which must be pre-salt and pepper to taste.
- Onion cut into half rings.
- Cut the carrots into circles and place in a separate bowl.
- Chop pepper into small strips, place to carrots.
- Peel the mushrooms, rinse, cut into thick slices.
- Fry mushrooms with olive oil.
- Fry vegetables separately in a pan with a minimal addition of salt.
- Grease a baking tray with vegetable oil.
- Put vegetables on a baking sheet. Then put mushrooms on them.
- On the resulting vegetable and mushroom "pillow" lay the fish.
- Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour.
