Everyone's favorite carp - cooking recipes

A long time ago, in the 12th century, a fish called sazan was brought from China to Europe. And already the Europeans pulled out of it a "home" carp, which we all know. Now in our ponds and rivers there are several species of this fish. This carp is scaly, mirror, glabrous and frame. Conventional carp have a weight of up to 2.5 kilograms, but there are also larger specimens. In the meat of this fish contain substances such as fats, water, protein and ash. And if it was grown under normal conditions, then its meat will favorably act on the metabolism in the human body.

And for all these centuries, people have come up with thousands of ways to prepare this fish. The most popular among the people, probably, is considered to be fried carp. The recipe for this dish is so simple, and it is prepared so quickly that many use it only. Delicious turns fried carp, which was previously 20 minutes soaked in milk with salt and pepper. To do this, take only a fourth of a glass of milk, a little pepper and a half teaspoon of salt. After soaking the fish should be sprinkled with lemon juice or white wine and roll in flour. If the carp fry along with the skin, it will get even more delicious. And for frying, it's best to take a cast-iron frying pan, and you need to pour oil in it so that the carp is half submerged in it.

But there are recipes and more refined. An example of this is carp in sour cream. For this dish you need these ingredients:

• Carp fresh - 800 g;
• Smoked salo - 40 g;
• Potato - 1.1 kg;
• salt;
• Sour cream sauce with onions;
• parsley;
• Pepper ground black.

To prepare such a carp, it must first be cleaned, cut along into two halves, and then these halves cut into pieces. These pieces of fish should be larded with bacon, salt and pepper. A potato must first boil, cutting it into mugs. Then it fits into the pan with the first layer. The second layer lay down the fish, and the third again the potatoes, and again the carp. Recipes for cooking such a dish can be very different. But in this version, all this is poured with a sauce made from sour cream with onions, and baked in the oven. After preparing the dish, you can sprinkle with parsley.

Baking now cooks began to use more often. After all, this process uses a minimum of fat. And this is appreciated by those people who watch their weight. This culinary process is also often used for such fish as carp. Recipes of cooking it allows you to use simple ingredients, and at the same time you get delicious and healthy dishes. For example, carp can be baked in a special sleeve. Fortunately, they are now sold in every supermarket.

For this, the carp should be cut into pieces, equal to one serving. Then they are salted, peppered and sprinkled with lemon juice. And in ten minutes, when the fish is a little soaked, the pieces are placed in the sleeve. There is also added sour cream with a calculation of 250 grams per kilogram of fish. The hose is tightened with a thread. At the same time, fats do not pollute the oven, and the fish retains its natural taste and smell. To fish and sour cream in the sleeve mixed, it should be gently shaken. Then the sleeve is placed on a baking tray and placed in the oven, so that its surface does not touch the walls of the oven. And after 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees you will get ready baked carp. Recipes of cooking, or rather their options, you can try to diversify. For example, instead of sour cream, you can use cheese. It also fits in the sleeve. Here per kilogram of fish goes 150 grams of cheese. Carp in this case is obtained with a piquant taste.

It's also good to get fried in sour cream carp. Recipes of cooking exist completely different, therefore each mistress can choose an option to her taste. And here is one of them. He needs such products:

• Carp - 4 pieces;
• Sour cream - 1 glass;
• Bulb - 2 pieces;
• Bay leaves - 1;
• Carrots - 1;
• Black pepper - 8 peas.

Carp need to be cleaned, cut across and pepper from the inside. Then these pieces of fish should be fried. Onions with carrots are first shredded, and then fried until golden brown. A sour cream is divorced a quarter of a glass of warm water. Then the pieces of fish are placed in a high frying pan or in a scallop. Top with carrots and onions, pepper and bay leaves are added. And all this is filled with sour cream. Then the frying pan is closed with a lid and placed in a hot oven. Stew this dish should not more than 20 minutes. Served on the table is a carp with greens.