The answer to the question of how to make crucian carp is far from known to all modern housewives. The easiest way is to fry them. If you do not tolerate platitudes and want to create something original and tasty, then a crucian dish in sour cream will be a suitable option for you.
Essential Ingredients:
- 2 kg of fresh crucian carp.
- Half a glass of flour (premium).
- Two medium-sized tomatoes.
- A bunch of greens (for example, dill or parsley).
- Vegetable (unrefined) oil.
- Salt.
- 2 onions (medium in size).
- 500 g of sour cream (any fat content).
- 2 carrots (small).
- Ground pepper.
- Juice squeezed from half a lemon.
Before answering the question of how to cook crucians, you need to talk about their proper preliminary preparation. So, we take a sharp knife in our hands and begin to clean the fish from scales and entrails. If there is caviar, then put it on a separate plate. In the future, it will still be useful to us. For example, you can make a small cake. To do this, add flour to the dishes with caviar (a tablespoon will be enough) and a beaten egg, salt everything and mix thoroughly. We spread the resulting mass in a pan and fry on both sides. The cake is very tasty and satisfying. If there is not much caviar, it is best to fold it back into the abdomen of each fish.
There are some other nuances that also need to be considered. Many housewives are interested in how to make crucian carp in order to avoid problems with small bones. In this case, you can do the following: make small incisions on the back. What will it give? The bones will be cut, and in the process of cooking the dishes will acquire extraordinary softness.
Put the fish in a deep pan, pepper and salt it. Also do not forget to squeeze the juice out of half a lemon. Mix everything carefully so that the crucian carp are completely covered with salt and pepper. Leave them for about 15-20 minutes. It takes so much time for pickling. Next, take the greens and rinse it with tap water. Finely chop the parsley or dill, and cut the tomatoes into thin slices. In each fish we put a slice of tomato and a small amount of greens. Now we start processing carrots. We clean it and rub on a coarse grater.
Lightly roll the fish on both sides in flour, and then put it in a frying pan with vegetable oil. We fry crucians until they are almost ready. The main symptom is a golden brown. In another pan (smaller), grated carrots should be passaged. It only needs to be slightly fried. Here we add onions, sliced in half rings, mix it with carrots. As soon as it becomes soft and transparent, turn off the fire.
It's time to talk about how to cook crucian in the oven. Both the fish and vegetables were fried. We take a special baking dish and generously grease it with butter. Lay out the ingredients in layers: first half onion and carrots, then crucian carp, the remaining half of vegetables and herbs. From above, pour it all with sour cream. We send our dish to the oven (at a temperature of 180-200 degrees) for about half an hour.
Now you know how to cook crucians with a minimum of time and effort.