Carp head ear
Many people cook this soup with millet or barley, but I prefer it with rice. In addition, you can add a fish tail and ridge, if you have one, so the soup will be even richer.
You will need:
- 400-500 gr. – carp
- 4-5 pcs. – potatoes
- 2-2.5 liters – clean water
- 100 gr. – rice (can be replaced with pearl barley or millet)
- 1-2 pcs. – carrots
- 1 PC. – onions
- 2-3 pcs. – bay leaves
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Any fresh herbs
- Vegetable oil - for frying
How to cook:
1. Pour the prepared carp head with cold water, bring to a boil, remove all the foam.
2. While the water is boiling, peel and chop the potatoes, carrots and onions. Rinse the rice in cold water.
3. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until soft, then add the carrots and simmer for another 2-3 minutes.
4. After boiling, add potatoes and rice into the pan, after 20 minutes add fried vegetables, bay leaves, salt, all spices to taste, cook for another 10-15 minutes.
5. Finely chop the greens and add them to the pan 5 minutes before they are ready. That's all! Our fish soup is ready, you can set the table and taste it!
Calorie content per 100 g. – 241 kcal
Bon appetit!
From mirror carp with pearl barley
Mirror carp is a domesticated species of freshwater fish that is widely used for breeding. The main difference from an ordinary individual is that the scales of the mirror carp are large and resemble a mirror. It covers part of the fish's body, located along the ridge, on the sides and tail. Mirror carp is an excellent way to strengthen the immune system.
Cooking time – 1 hour 20 minutes.
Active cooking time is 30 minutes.
Per 100 g of product: proteins – 10, fats – 5, carbohydrates – 14, calorie content – 120 kcal.
Number of servings – 8-10
Recipe for homemade fish soup in a royal style
This is an old Russian recipe, according to which it was prepared for royalty. This recipe must contain three types of fish.
You will need:
- 300 gr. – chicken or broth set
- 200 gr. – carp
- 200 gr. – salmon
- 200 gr. – any other fish to your taste
- 1 PC. - carrot
- 100 gr. – celery
- 1 PC. – parsley root
- 1 PC. – onion heads in peel
- 1 teaspoon – grated ginger root
- 2-3 pcs. – bay leaves
- 5 pcs. – black and allspice peas
- Salt, fish spices - to your taste
- 100 gr. – vodka
- Potatoes or cereal - optional
How to cook:
1. First, you need to cook chicken broth. To do this, fill the soup set with water, bring to a boil, drain the water, rinse the chicken, fill it with water a second time and put it on the fire.
2. After boiling, add carrots, celery, onion directly in the husk, cook everything over low heat for two hours.
3. Next, take out all the boiled ingredients from the pan and add the fish into the broth. At this stage, you can add potatoes or cereal. Add all the spices, salt, pepper. Cook for 15 minutes.
4. Three boiled carrots on a coarse grater, separate the chicken meat from the bones.
5. After 15 minutes, take out the fish, separate from the bones, and cut into small pieces. At this stage you need to strain the broth, but this is optional.
6. Now put all the prepared ingredients into the pan, add ginger. Taste the salt and spices, bring to a boil, pour in vodka, turn off the heat, cover the pan tightly with a lid, and let sit for another 5-10 minutes.
7. Pour into portioned plates and garnish with fresh herbs.
Calorie content per 100 g. – 115 kcal
Bon appetit!
In a slow cooker
From the head and tail of fish with millet
Adding various parts of fish to the broth makes the taste of the finished dish even more rich.
To prepare a rich first course from the head and tail of carp, you need:
- bulb;
- carrot;
- 2 potato tubers;
- 100 g millet;
- carp head and tail;
- dill greens;
- salt and spices.
Stages of creating fish soup:
- The fish parts are placed in a pan and covered with water.
- After boiling, the noise is removed, and the salted broth continues to cook for 20 minutes, after which it is filtered.
- Vegetables are prepared into cubes, which are sent into the liquid after boiling again.
- The washed millet is also thrown there.
- The fish soup is cooked for 20 minutes, after which it is seasoned with chopped herbs.
At the end, the fish soup should be seasoned and supplemented with carp meat obtained by disassembling the head and tail.
How to cook carp soup at home in a slow cooker
Many housewives love to use kitchen gadgets. This makes the work and cooking time much easier.
In our case, we select the “Soup” program and after finishing the cooking process, we leave our fish soup to simmer for another 20 minutes.
You will need:
- 500 gr. – carp
- 3-4 pcs. – potatoes
- 1 PC. - carrot
- 1 PC. - onion head
- 20 gr. – butter
- Salt, fish spices - to your taste
How to cook:
1. Peel the carrots and potatoes and cut into cubes. You can simply cut the peeled onion into two halves.
2. Cut the cleaned fish into portions.
3. Place all the prepared products into the multicooker bowl, add water, salt and all the spices, butter.
4. Turn on the “Soup” program and set the cooking time to 1 hour. After finishing work, set the “Heating” mode for 20 minutes.
Calorie content per 100 g. – 91 kcal
Bon appetit!
Fish soup with tomatoes
In a slow cooker
A multicooker is a very convenient and unpretentious equipment for preparing various dishes. It all depends on the number of programs in your device. We recommend preparing the fish soup using the “Soup” program and leaving it to simmer until done after the end of the program for another 15-20 minutes.
Cooking time – 2 hours
Active cooking time is 30 minutes.
Per 100 g of product: proteins – 5, fats – 2, carbohydrates – 14, calorie content – 90 kcal.
Number of servings – 8
Compound:
- Carp – 500 grams
- Potatoes – 4 pcs.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Butter – 20 grams
- Salt, spices - to taste
Recipe:
- Peel the potatoes and cut into small cubes. Peel the carrots. Cut into thin slices. Peel the onion. To cut in half.
- Clean the carp, cut into portions, rinse. Place carp, carrots, onions, and potatoes into the multicooker bowl.
- To fill with water. Add butter, bay leaf, salt, pepper, spices.
- Select the “Soup” program and the cooking time is 1.5 hours. After finishing the main program, leave the soup in the multicooker in the heating mode for 15-20 minutes.
Fish soup from carp with tomatoes
You will need:
- 200-300 gr. – carp
- 200-300 gr. – pike perch or silver carp
- 3-4 pcs. – potatoes
- 2 pcs. – carrots
- 2 pcs. - onion heads
- 5-7 pcs. – Cherry tomatoes
- Salt, pepper, fish spices - to your taste
How to cook:
1. Clean the entire fish, remove the entrails and gills, rinse well in cold water, cut into portions.
2. Pour cold water over the pieces and cook for 20 minutes. Then remove all the fish from the pan and strain the broth.
3. Add chopped vegetables (potatoes, onions, carrots) to the clarified broth, bring to a boil, remove the foam. Cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.
4. Separate the fish flesh from the bones and throw it into the pan along with the cherry tomato halves. All that remains is to add salt, pepper, and all the spices to your taste.
5. Cook our fish soup until cooked for about 10-15 minutes, turn off the heat, close the pan tightly with a lid, and let it brew for another 10 minutes.
6. Our whole dish is ready! Pour into plates and garnish with herbs.
Calorie content per 100 g. – 108 kcal
Bon appetit!
Recipes for carp fish soup at home
Fish soups can be prepared at home using various combinations of ingredients. Many of them are more like fish soup than fish soup in the traditional sense. You can adjust the amount of ingredients to your own taste by modifying the presented recipes.
Classic recipe
For “fishing” fish, you will need regular or mirror carp, potatoes and onions. If desired, you can serve the fish soup with fresh herbs.
Place the cleaned and cut into pieces fish in a saucepan with cold water and bring to a boil over medium heat. After boiling, remove the foam, add onions and potatoes (can be whole or cut into halves). Cook over low heat with the lid open for about 25 minutes. If desired, mash the potatoes into a puree or leave them chopped.
The fish soup can be poured into plates and served with fresh herbs.
Recipe for delicious carp soup with tomatoes
One of the best ways to make this soup at home. The bright taste of the tomato will complement the rich and rich fish broth. This is completely different from the soup at the fire, but no less tasty and nutritious.
To prepare fish soup with tomatoes you will need:
- carp (can be whole, or carcass fragments);
- onion in peel;
- carrot;
- 3 potatoes;
- tomato;
- spices to taste;
- a little olive or other vegetable oil (optional).
To make the broth rich, you should first boil the vegetables. To do this, you need to place prepared vegetables in boiling water: onions in the husks, potatoes and carrots cut into cubes, parsley sprigs. You can immediately add spices and cook everything together for 15 minutes over medium heat. Then you need to catch the onion skins.
Cut the prepared cleaned fish into large pieces, put it in a vegetable broth and add chopped tomato. Reduce heat and cook for another 10 minutes. If desired, add a little olive oil and leave for another 10 minutes, covered. Before serving, remove the parsley sprigs.
Homemade carp fish soup with barley
This dish is very rich and satisfying. Thanks to long simmering, the fish meat releases all the fat, and pearl barley quickly becomes saturated with it. Thanks to vegetables, the taste of the soup is bright and multifaceted.
To prepare you will need:
- carp head and tail;
- 3 potatoes;
- 3 tbsp. pearl barley;
- bulb;
- carrot;
- Bell pepper;
- 20 g butter (optional);
- laurel, dill, onion feathers, salt.
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Attention: to make the scales come off easier, place the fish parts in the sink and pour boiling water over them on both sides. Then cool with cold water. This way, the scales will easily come off the carcass and won’t require much further effort to clean.
Pour 1.5-2 liters of water into a saucepan and place over medium heat. Place the fish and bay leaf into the pan. Bring to a boil. The fish should be cooked for 20 minutes, then it should be removed.
Peel the vegetables and cut into medium pieces. Place them in the broth. Add the washed cereal, stir, wait until it boils and cook for another 20-30 minutes.
Carefully separate the fish fillets from the bones and return them to the soup. Add salt and spices to taste, butter. Reduce heat to low and simmer for another 30 minutes.
After turning off the heat, simmer the soup for another 10-15 minutes. Serve with finely chopped herbs.
Carp head soup with millet in a slow cooker
This dish is often prepared as a “side dish” to other carp dishes made from the main part of the carp. The cost of such fish soup is minimal: only heads and sometimes tails are used. However, cooking from leftover fish requires significant changes to the classic recipe.
Please note: to remove the pungent odor from the carp head, it should be soaked in diluted lemon juice or rubbed with salt for 10 minutes immediately before the cooking process.
For the dish you will need:
- one fish head;
- 2 medium potatoes;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 100 g millet;
- salt, spices, herbs - to taste.
Peel the vegetables. Cut potatoes and carrots into small cubes or cubes. Leave the onion whole or cut in half. Rinse the millet.
Place the prepared (cleaned, washed and pre-salted) head in a multicooker bowl, add vegetables, cereals, salt, and spices.
Set the device to “soup” mode. Cooking time is one and a half hours.
After completing the program, set the “auto-heating” mode for 10-15 minutes. This way the dish will brew faster and taste better.
A simple video recipe: carp head soup
Carp soup with yolks
You will need:
- 1 kg. – carp
- 1 PC. – onions
- 2-3 pcs. – yolk
- 2-3 tbsp. spoons - vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp. spoon – wheat flour
- 2 liters – clean water
- 2-3 pcs. – bay leaves
- 4-5 pcs. – black peppercorns
- Salt, fish spices - to your taste
- A bunch of greens - for a beautiful presentation
How to cook:
1. Clean the fish, remove the gills and entrails, cut off the tail and head, and remove the fillets from the bones.
2. Place the head, tail and ridge in a saucepan, pour in water, add onion, bay leaf, pepper. Cook after boiling for about 30 minutes.
3. While the broth is cooking, cut the fillet into portions, sprinkle with salt and leave for 10 minutes.
4. Then roll each piece in flour and fry in vegetable oil on both sides for 2-4 minutes.
5. Strain the finished broth through a sieve, discard the onions and spices.
6. Separate the yolks from the whites, beat a little with a fork, add a tablespoon of fish broth to the yolks gradually and mix each time. Thus, you need to pour about 100 grams into the yolks. broth.
7. Add fried pieces of carp to the strained broth, bring to a boil, taste the salt. If necessary, add salt, pour in the yolks, mix everything and immediately turn off the pan.
8. Pour our fish soup into bowls and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Bon appetit!
Unusual recipe with tomatoes
If you want to diversify the classic recipe, you can do it with tomatoes.
To cook carp fish soup, you should have on hand:
- fish head;
- 300 g carp fillet;
- 2 onions and carrots;
- 3 potatoes;
- 2 tomatoes;
- herbs, salt and spices.
Sequencing:
- A broth is prepared from the peeled head and whole onions with salt and seasonings, which is immediately filtered.
- When it boils again, potato cubes, carrot slices and disassembled fish fillets are thrown into it.
- Tomatoes are cut into slices.
- The aromatic fish soup is cooked for 15 minutes and topped with tomato slices.
- The soup simmers for another 7 minutes, after which it is chopped with herbs.
If desired, the tomatoes can be cut crosswise and placed whole in the fish soup, and after the soup is ready, simply remove them. The last step also applies to boiled pieces.