How to bake delicious carp in the oven in an original way?

02.04.202127.05.2017

Without fish products, it is impossible to imagine the diet of any person. Varieties of marine fish come to us mostly frozen, so many prefer river fish. It is tasty and healthy, and the most popular of freshwater fish is carp, the traditions of which there are a great many. However, it is easiest to cook fish in the oven, because baked carp looks amazing, the pleasant aroma of fish and unforgettable taste make it possible to delight not only households, but also guests at a festive feast with a hearty dish.

How to choose the right river fish?

To prepare a fragrant dish, a frozen product will have to be abandoned, the carcass must be whole, with a head
The freshness of the fish is determined by the gills, they should be bright red, and the eyes should be clear and transparent.
A sharp river or swamp smell, slimy scales indicate stale goods
To make the taste of the baked dish tender, you should buy live fish with an elastic body

Features of the culinary process

Any fish that lives in freshwater bodies has a specific smell, which confuses some gourmets. The process of marinating carp with spices and lemon juice will help get rid of the unpleasant odor, and the addition of onions, garlic, and fresh herbs will also help.

Many refuse to eat river fish because of the abundance of bones, especially small ones, but this is not a problem at all. Thanks to frequent vertical notches, a sharp knife on the back of the carcass, the bones are crushed, becoming harmless.

Experienced chefs advise baking carp in the oven as a whole, and without cutting off the head, as well as the tail along with the fins. Before cooking, clean the scales, gut the carcass, remove the gills from the head to thoroughly wash the prepared fish. If you bake carp in the oven, it is covered with a delicious-looking crust. When baked in foil, the finished fish will be devoid of a golden crust, but will retain juiciness. Therefore, 10-15 minutes before the end of the cooking process, the foil is unrolled.

Many housewives are concerned about the temperature and cooking time of the dish. The oven temperature must be at least 180 degrees. How much to bake carp is determined by its weight. A carcass weighing 1-1.5 kg will be ready in at least an hour; it will take two or even 2.5 hours to bake a large fish weighing up to 3 kg.

The main feature of the culinary action is to withstand the time and temperature of baking. For baking, you can use frozen fish, but it should be properly thawed - on the shelf in the refrigerator. The carcass must be dry-frozen, clean, without stains, with wet scales and free gills, then the delicacy of the taste of the finished dish is guaranteed.

How to bake carp, decorating with herbs?

A dish with greens is easier to prepare in spring or summer for any family celebration. Before starting the culinary process, the carcass must be cleaned and washed, the required ingredients prepared, and it is also better to start preheating the oven in advance. The peculiarity of stuffing carp with greens is to eliminate the smell of mud.

What ingredients are required:

medium-sized fish (approximately a kilogram)
a bunch of fresh herbs (dill with parsley)
mayonnaise (the recipe allows the use of homemade sour cream) - 100 gr.
garlic cloves - 4 pieces (medium size)
a tablespoon of vegetable oil
ground pepper (white and black), salt

Cooking features:

A whole carp, cleaned and washed, but with a head, tail and fins, sprinkled well with a mixture of salt and pepper
In a separate bowl, finely chopped greens are mixed with squeezed garlic mass, not forgetting to leave a couple of sprigs of greens for decoration
The belly of the carp rubbed from the outside, as well as from the inside, is filled with a mass of greens with garlic
To make the meat of the baked carp juicy, it is coated on all sides with mayonnaise or sour cream
The prepared baking sheet is covered with foil, the fish is laid, slices of potatoes are placed around it, salted and poured over with oil (vegetable)

If the fish is baked with vegetables or potatoes, in addition to butter, add a little water (less than a glass). To cook the dish in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, it will take a maximum of 1.5 hours.

It is important not to overexpose the brazier at a higher temperature, otherwise the fish dish, along with the side dish, may dry out. It is better to remove the cooked greens from the finished fish, and decorate with fresh sprigs prepared in advance.

The most popular instant carp recipe

Guests will soon arrive, and an almost three-kilogram carp was found in the refrigerator. It can be quickly cooked in the oven. However, you will need some more products that can also be found in the refrigerator of any housewife:

200 gr. hard cheese, which is available
large carrot
2 medium onions
a bunch of greens, parsley is more suitable
some soy sauce
2 tablespoons lemon juice

We will bake carp in foil, a good housewife always has it in the kitchen:

We take out the carp carp, clean it, wash it with running water, especially carefully from the inside
Next, you need to rub the carp with soy sauce marinade with the addition of lemon juice. Put the fish in the rest of the marinade, it should marinate for an hour on the shelf of the refrigerator
Now it's the turn to prepare the mixture for stuffing the fish. The recipe is simple - you will need cheese and carrots, we rub them on a grater (large), add the onion chopped in whole rings or halves, sprinkled with finely chopped parsley
Wrap the stuffed carp with a sheet of foil to put on a baking sheet. The oven should be preheated, because the carp baked in foil should stand in the oven for 40-45 minutes
Then we open the foil, sending the roaster to bake for another 10 minutes, then the fish will be covered with a fragrant golden crust

Already the guests are on the doorstep, and on the table they are waiting for a delicious carp, decorated with mayonnaise and sprigs of greens. Serve it with potatoes as a side dish, or you can choose rice. So tasty! It even looks very beautiful, thanks to the radiance of a ruddy crust with a pattern of mayonnaise.

Cooking a mirror carp in the oven with cream and sour cream

For baking, it is better to choose a two-kilogram fish. For the filling, you will need Cherry tomatoes (5 pieces), olives (10 pieces).

We will prepare the marinade from soy sauce (4 tablespoons), flavoring it with olive oil (5 tablespoons), as well as dry marjoram and pepper. To lubricate the carp, you need 200 gr. sour cream and 100 ml of 15% cream. You will also need food foil, you need to cover the carcass prepared for baking with it.

Step by step recipe how to cook a culinary masterpiece:

Fresh fish, and this is a carp, should be cleaned of scales, as well as entrails
Now the carcass needs to be washed using running water, dried with a napkin
In a bowl, we prepare a marinade from olive oil with soy sauce, adding marjoram, a little pepper from a bag
We rub the carp with a thoroughly mixed mixture to send it to the refrigerator, where it will marinate for an hour.
In a separate container we will prepare a mixture of sour cream with cream. This sauce will make the carp tastier, giving the fish meat a slight piquancy.
To fill the fish, prepare the tomatoes by washing them, cut them in half. Olives stay whole
Carp stuffed with olives and tomatoes, you need to grease with creamy sour cream sauce. The rest you can just pour the carcass
The brazier with the future delicacy is covered with foil, put in the oven (180 degrees) to languish for 40 minutes

A small touch to the fish masterpiece. If the foil is not removed, the carp baked in foil will not please with a golden crust. Therefore, when the dish is almost ready, we release it from the foil by increasing the temperature in the oven (220 degrees). Until the fish is ready, you will have to wait another 10-15 minutes.

How to bake carp in the oven in an original way?

First way

If you bought 1.5 kg of fish, prepare 3 large onions, 100 gr each. butter and sunflower oil, pepper and salt to taste, as well as a roll of foil. Of the seasonings, you will need 3 tablespoons of vinegar (balsamic), a bag of coriander seeds (20 gr.). An unexpected addition to the recipe will be 5 tablespoons of honey.

What do we have to do:

Clean and wash the carp by making 2-3 cuts in the rib area with a knife
Grate the carcass with a mixture of vegetable oil and pepper, not forgetting the salt.
Finely chop the onion to fry it in butter
Prepare a marinade from melted honey with the addition of vinegar, dried onions, add coriander seeds
Sometimes it happens that inside the fish remains dry, so you need to generously flavor the carp with the marinade even from the inside.
After marinating for half an hour, the carcass is laid out on a baking sheet covered with foil, pouring the rest of the sauce
In an oven preheated to the set temperature, the fish is cooked for 35-45 minutes

An unusual method of preparation gives the carp an attractive aroma due to the inclusion of honey. A marinade with balsamic vinegar and coriander becomes a guarantee of a delicate taste. If the carp was wrapped in foil, it is opened 10 minutes before it is ready.

Second way

Fish baked in the oven with apples is prepared from a whole carcass of a peeled carp:

Before cooking, the back of the carp is cut with a knife in several places.
Rubbed with salt and pepper, pour over the juice of one lemon, then send to the cold
While the carp is infused, the bottom of the prepared form is covered with chopped onion rings. Hard apples are added, they should be cut into centimeter-thick slices
On a pillow of apples and onions, they arrange fish generously smeared with mayonnaise
The remaining apple slices and onion rings decorate the incisions on the back
The form must be closed with a lid, and baked for no more than an hour

An unusual recipe has a little secret. To obtain a crispy crust, shortly before the dish is ready, the lid is removed. But the fish is not ready yet, it needs to be kept for 10-15 minutes in a hot oven, then the dish will please not only with a divine taste, but also with an unusual look.

Important tips. Do not be too zealous when filling the fish with stuffing, otherwise it may fall apart in the oven. To make the carp especially juicy, cook it immediately after purchase.