Christmas carp baked in beer

Christmas carp baked in beer

Category: Fish dishes

Ingredients
carp 1.5 kg	1 PC
light beer	500 g
leeks (light part)	1 PC
bulb onions	1 PC
lemon	1 PC
carrot	1-2 pcs
basil	1 tsp
vegetable oil	2 tbsp. l.
butter	1 tbsp. l.
thyme	1 tbsp. l
salt pepper	taste

Cooking method

• Carp baked in the oven is always delicious. Today I bring to your attention a carp cooked according to German Christmas motives, baked in beer, with my slight changes.
• We clean the carp, remove all the insides and gills and rinse thoroughly. Then we dry it.
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• We rub the fish inside and outside with a mixture of salt and thyme, pour on all sides and especially from the inside with lemon juice.
• We leave the carp to rest.
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• In the meantime, we will deal with vegetables: chop onions and garlic, fry in olive oil,
• cut leeks and carrots into rings and send them there -
• fry and then simmer for 3 - 4 minutes.
• Place the vegetables on the bottom of the baking dish.
• Put the carp on top of the vegetables, in which cuts are made along one upper side of the ribs.
• Fill the carp with half the beer.
• The oven is heated to 200 * C. We send our carp there. If you wish, you can put potatoes next to it (I don't eat carp without it)
• It is not worth leaving the carp for a long time - we will periodically water it with the remaining beer (we will do 3 approaches).
• The cuts gradually open, pour the beer directly into them.
• At the appointed time (after 40 minutes), remove the carp from the oven. Now, for the festive table, you need to transfer the carp to a dish and collect the carrots and onions to puree them, and serve with the fish. Add butter and basil to the puree. We did not do this solemn moment. Carp already looked very festive! And for Christmas we will do it according to all the rules.
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• We put vegetables and fish on plates. We serve and eat!
• The carp turned out to be so tender and tasty and the vegetables, saturated with all the aromas, are amazingly tasty!
• Now I understand why carp is the main Christmas dish in the Czech Republic and Germany! The beer in this recipe is an important ingredient that improves both aroma and taste in carp.
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• Bon Appetit!

The dish is designed for

4-5 servings

Time for preparing:

1 hour

Cooking program:

oven

[Marina]

Marina, and the taste of beer in the dish is felt and what does it give?

Lena, thank you for your interest in the recipe. Carp beer is probably the most important ingredient in this recipe. And it gives the fish everything: both aroma and taste. The aroma is amazing! And the taste is always difficult to describe - you have to try it yourself ... If you like carp, then I think you will like the recipe with beer.
I will add, perhaps, this fact in the recipe so that no one has such doubts ...