Baked carp in sour cream, cooked surprisingly quickly. In this regard, such a tasty and satisfying dish can be easily made when guests suddenly come to you.
Carp in sour cream in the oven: ingredients needed:
- fresh and large carp - one two-kilogram piece;
- onions - ten medium heads;
- ripe tomatoes - two big pieces;
- thirty percent sour cream - three hundred grams;
- sunflower oil - fifty milliliters;
- spices suitable for baking fish (curry, saffron, ground coriander, paprika, ginger) - in total, about one and a half dessert spoons should be obtained;
- iodized salt - at personal discretion;
- fresh greens - a couple of small bunches;
- lemon - one piece;
- fresh carrots - two big pieces.
Oven baked carp in sour cream: fish processing
Fresh carp should be cleaned of all entrails and scales, and also remove fins. Then it must be thoroughly washed and lightly dried with napkins. After that, the fish must be put in a pan with boiling sunflower oil and lightly fry on both sides over high heat (for three to four minutes). Then, hot fish must be placed on a flat dish, sprinkled with lemon juice, salt and season with all prepared seasonings. In order for the carp to absorb the aromas of spices in its meat, it is recommended to leave it aside for ten to fifteen minutes. At this time, you should start preparing the remaining products.
Oven baked carp in sour cream: vegetable processing
Carrots, tomatoes and onions need to be washed well and cut into half rings. It is also necessary to rinse fresh green leaves and finely chop them with a knife.
Oven-baked carp in sour cream: forming a dish
To prepare such a fish, it is best to use large metal utensils with sides seven to eight centimeters high. The pan should be coated with sunflower oil, gently move the slightly fried fish there, and lay on top the processed vegetables: carrots, onions and tomatoes. All ingredients must be sprinkled with iodized salt and ground pepper. Then on the surface of the dish you need to put thick thirty percent sour cream, pre-mixed with finely chopped herbs. It is desirable to evenly distribute the dairy product among vegetables.
How to cook carp in the oven: heat treatment
After the dish is fully formed, it must immediately be placed in an oven warmed up to two hundred degrees. Such a fish is baked for about fifty minutes.
Proper serving
When the vegetables and fish become soft, the dishes should be removed from the oven, and then cut the finished carp into pieces and put on separate serving plates. This dish is served for dinner along with boiled rice, olives and fresh vegetables.
Helpful advice
To bake carp in the oven, it is recommended to take only large fish. This is due to the fact that in small fish the bones are also too small. And this can become a real problem in the process of absorption of carp in sour cream.