Homemade marinated silver carp

Kitchen appliances and utensils: fish scaler, cutting board, knife, container with a lid.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Training

First prepare the fish: it needs to be cleaned, the entrails, head and tail removed, washed, then cut into portioned pieces. Rinse the cut fish well again and soak in cold water for 1-2 hours to wash the blood. Drain the water. Onions cut into thin rings or half rings.

Pickling

1. Put 1 bay leaf, 5-6 peas of black pepper, ¼ chopped onion, put pieces of fish on top and salt it well (about ¼ tsp. Less or more, depending on size) on the bottom of the container where the silver carp will be pickled capacity).
   
2. Next, repeat the layers - lavrushka (optional), pepper, onion, fish and salt, until we lay out the whole silver carp.
   
3. Pour 1 cup into the container. 9% vinegar to lightly cover the fish (vinegar can be added if necessary). Some recipes advise diluting 9% vinegar with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Squeeze the contents with some sort of oppression (you can take a suitable, clean jar of water) or just close the lid and leave at room temperature for 4 hours, mix and leave for another 4 hours.
   
4. After 8 hours, drain the vinegar, no need to rinse the fish. Pour in a silver carp 100-150 ml of vegetable oil (the amount of oil depends on the amount of fish), close the lid tightly and refrigerate for 24 hours.
   
5. Now you can put slices of fish and onions on a plate and treat everyone. Enjoy your meal!
   

Did you know?

• It is better to buy a large silver carp weighing more than 2.5-3 kg - it has fewer small seeds, the flesh is more tender, moderately oily.
• Silver carp can be baked, boiled, stewed, marinated, it makes a delicious jellied filling for fish pies.
• If you want to make the taste of pickled fish more piquant, add a couple of chopped garlic cloves with vegetable oil.
• The head, tail and fins of silver carp can be used for cooking fish soup.
• Fish in general and silver carp in particular are very useful because they contain a significant amount of protein, omega-3 and omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids and trace elements. Therefore, silver carp is recommended for diet food.

Video recipe

The video will tell you how to properly pickle a silver carp at home. You will learn by what criteria to choose fish for pickling and why you need to soak it, how long it should be at room temperature and how long it is in the refrigerator, and also in what sequence to put the ingredients in a container.

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