Carp cutlets: recipes in a frying pan, in the oven, in Astrakhan style (+ reviews)

General recommendations

To make juicy and tasty cutlets, you need to use only fresh, high-quality fish. If your stores don’t sell carp fillets, you can buy a whole carcass and cut it yourself. Of course, it will take a little more time, but the result will be beyond praise.

As a rule, chicken eggs, bread soaked in milk, onions, salt and aromatic spices are added to minced fish. For greater juiciness, add butter or a little lard. But you need to keep in mind that in this case the finished dish cannot be called dietary. Before heat treatment, carp cutlets are rolled in wheat flour, semolina or breadcrumbs. In this case, they will acquire an appetizing crispy crust.

Useful tips

If fried fish cutlets from carp are then stewed or baked in tomato sauce, they will turn out with an even brighter and more pronounced taste, and will also become much juicier. Tomato sauce can be prepared either from fresh, grated tomatoes or from ready-made tomato puree. Herbs such as thyme, rosemary or marjoram will give it a special piquancy.

Minced carp can be diluted in a 2:1 ratio with minced pike perch. Then the cutlets turn out even more delicious.

In addition to breadcrumbs and onions, you can also add semolina, starch or flour to minced carp cutlets.

Cooking algorithm

If you were unable to buy fillets, you can use a whole fish. But you will have to cut it yourself. The head, tail and fins are separated from the cleaned and gutted carcass. After this, an incision is made along the ridge with a sharp knife and it is removed along with the large rib bones

At the very end, carefully remove the skin from the cut fish.

The resulting fillet is washed in running water, blotted dry with disposable kitchen towels and cut into not too large pieces. The prepared fish is ground through a meat grinder and combined with pre-grated potatoes and chopped onions. Salt, spices and ground bay leaves are also sent there. Add chopped green onions to the resulting mass and mix thoroughly until smooth.

Recipe with photos of simple and delicious carp cutlets

There are only a small number of ingredients, but they reveal the amazing aroma of the dish and create a unique, complex taste. Cutlets made from minced carp are so juicy that they seem to be very fatty. In fact, this is a low-calorie dish that can be eaten while dieting.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Number of servings: 10

Energy and nutritional value

calorie content – 192.7 kcal;
proteins – 22.2 g;
fats – 6.5 g;
carbohydrates – 12.2 g.

Ingredients

carp (fillet) – 1 kg;
onion – 250 g;
buckwheat flour – 3 tbsp;
unrefined sunflower oil – 3 ml;
pepper mixture (ground) – 2 pinches;
salt - to taste.

Diet-budget cutlets

If you don’t want to spend time kneading the minced meat from the previous recipe for a long time, try making a quick and cheaper version of carp cutlets. For this we need:

carp - 1 kilogram,
onions - 2 pieces,
buckwheat flour - 3 tablespoons,
vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons,
pepper, salt - to taste.

This recipe for carp cutlets does not require much manipulation, but you still cannot avoid cutting and filleting the fish. Grind carp fillet in a meat grinder twice. This time you can try chopping the fillet along with the skin. Add flour and vegetable oil to it. Onions can also be passed through a meat grinder. Another option is to grate or chop using a blender. After this, add salt and pepper, mix the minced meat. Prepare the cutlets and place them on a flat surface. These carp cutlets can be fried in a dry frying pan, baked in the oven, covered with foil, or cooked over an open fire in a barbecue or on a grill grate. As you can see, everything is very fast and extremely simple. And you still have enough free time to visit our page with photos from fishing trips, as well as look for new recipes in our culinary section, and learn how to deliciously cook carp in other ways. For example:

bake in the oven as a fillet
bait the carp
cook shish kebab from carp

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Carp cutlets baked in the oven

Compound:

carp fillet – 0.75 kg;
chicken egg – 1 pc.;
onions – 0.2 kg;
green onions – 10 g;
fresh parsley or cilantro – 10 g;
fresh dill – 10 g;
dried thyme – 3 g;
ground black pepper – 3 g;
salt - to taste;
tomato paste – 20 ml;
water – 0.2 l;
refined vegetable oil – 20 ml;
wheat flour (or buckwheat, oatmeal) - how much will be used for breading.

Cooking method:

Cut the carp fillet into pieces and turn it through a meat grinder twice. Add salt and pepper and stir.
Wash the greens, pat dry with a napkin, chop as finely as possible, add to the minced meat, stir it.
Peel the onions, finely chop them and divide approximately in half.
Add half the onion to the minced meat. Break an egg into it. Knead the minced meat with your hands and put it in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
Fry the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Dilute the tomato paste with water, adding a little salt and thyme.
Pour the tomato sauce into the frying pan with the onions and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
Remove the minced meat from the refrigerator, form it into cutlets, bread them in flour and place them in a baking dish.
Pour tomato sauce over the cutlets.
Place the form with minced carp products in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake the products for 20-25 minutes.

The sauce in which the cutlets were baked can be used as gravy. You can bake cutlets made according to this recipe in a slow cooker. To do this, you need to activate the “Baking” program by setting the timer for 30-35 minutes.

Traditional cutlets

What you will need:

fillet - 500 gr.;
milk – 150 ml;
onion – 2 heads;
white loaf;
crackers – 100 gr.;
sea salt - to taste;
lemon pepper;
greens – 1 bunch;
oil for frying.

How to cook:

The onion is peeled, finely chopped and sautéed until golden.
Carp meat is ground in any available way.
The loaf is soaked in milk and kneaded.
Squeeze out the moisture and add to the minced meat.
The greens are washed, finely chopped, and placed in a common bowl.
Add cooled onions, salt and lemon pepper.
The minced meat is kneaded until it becomes homogeneous.
Pour oil into a frying pan with thick walls and heat it up.
In the meantime, cutlets are formed into any shape, rolled in breadcrumbs and placed to fry.
Cook on each side for 10 minutes over moderate heat.

Delicious fish cutlets turn out very juicy and tender. For a side dish, prepare mashed potatoes and fresh vegetable salad.

Recipe for fish cutlets with filling

Ingredients for cooking:

minced carp fish – 500 g;
chicken eggs – 3 pcs.;
salad onion – 2 pcs.;
stale white bread – 4 pieces;
whole cow's milk – 125 ml;
salt;
a mixture of aromatic ground peppers;
corn flour.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Nutritional value per 100 g: 146 kcal.

Preparation:

First of all, you need to cook the chicken eggs. They are hard-boiled, then peeled and put aside for a while;
Pour cow's milk over stale bread pieces and leave until softened. Then you need to knead them (by hand) and squeeze out the excess milk;
Finely chop the onions;
Combine chilled minced fish with chopped onion and soaked bread. Season it with salt and a mixture of aromatic peppers;
Divide the prepared minced meat into 3 equal parts. Flatten each of them, giving it the shape of a flat cake. Place a boiled egg in the center and pinch the edges to form a cutlet;
The formed cutlets are breaded in corn flour and then fried in a frying pan until golden brown. Additionally, they can be baked in the oven, placed on a baking sheet, but this is not a prerequisite;
Ready-made carp cutlets with filling turn out to be quite large, and therefore, before serving, they must be cut into 2 halves.

Other recipes for minced fish dishes

Let's consider a recipe for carp cutlets with a different set of ingredients. In addition to, in fact, fish fillet, onions, spices, flour, we use vegetable oil instead of melted butter, and chopped dill instead of green onions. You will also need 2 eggs, 3 pieces of white loaf.

Pre-soak the loaf in milk or water. Pass the fish fillet and onion through a meat grinder (you can use a blender). There we send eggs, herbs, bread, spices to taste, mix everything thoroughly. Leave it for a while.

Now all that remains is to form the cutlets, after which we roll each one in flour and fry in a frying pan until fully cooked. There is also another original carp cutlet recipe. Prepare minced fish as in the previous recipe. Boil 3 hard-boiled eggs, cool and peel. Three eggs - three servings.

We make three cakes from the minced meat, place an egg in the center of each and form a cutlet. Then we roll what we get in paneer made from crushed breadcrumbs.

Option with buckwheat flour

This recipe makes an excellent low-calorie dish that goes well with fresh vegetable salads. It has an unusual taste and a very pleasant aroma. To make carp, stock up on all the necessary ingredients in advance. Be sure to make sure that when you need it in your kitchen you have:

A kilo of carp.
3 tablespoons of buckwheat flour.
250 grams of onions.
3 milliliters unrefined vegetable oil.
Salt and pepper mixture.

Option with potatoes

Carp fillet is an almost ideal ingredient for making minced fish. It has a dense structure and does not fall apart during processing. In addition, it is fatty enough to make a juicy and tender dish. This recipe for carp cutlets involves the use of a specific food set. Therefore, make sure in advance that your home has:

One and a half kilograms of carp fillet.
A pair of onions.
½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar.
A couple of potatoes.
Bay leaf.
200 grams of butter.
A bunch of green onions.
Flour, salt, aromatic spices and refined vegetable oil.

Diet cutlets

Components:

minced meat – 1 kg;
buckwheat flour – 100 gr.;
red onion – 1 pc.;
salt;
olive oil – 80 ml.

Step-by-step recipe with photos:

Cut the onion into small cubes.
In a bowl, combine minced meat, onion, flour, salt, and butter. Mix thoroughly. If there is no flour and there is nowhere to grind the cereal, then add regular boiled buckwheat.
Line a baking sheet with foil and form round cutlets.
We put them in one row. Place in the oven, heated to 190 degrees, for 35 minutes.

Serve cutlets with Korean carrot salad. Very tasty and interesting combination

Step-by-step preparation

If you have a whole carp carcass in front of you, clean it of scales and gut it.

Then you need to cut off the head, tail, ridge and fins with scissors or a sharp knife. The carcass is washed well in water. After separating the fillet, select small bones and cut the carp into pieces that will be convenient to grind.

To make the cutlets juicy and tender, you need to add a white loaf or roll to the minced meat, before briefly soaking it in water (so that it covers the top).

Onions can be ground with carp meat. But if you chop it finely, then the texture of the cutlets will be more interesting, and the minced meat will not be so liquid.

The fish is milled in a convenient way. As a rule, a meat grinder is used. Well-pressed bread, chopped onions and any greens are added to the minced meat (you can take dried, fresh, or a mixture of them). The second part of the minced meat can be made without greens. Then everything is rubbed together by hand.

After mixing the minced meat until smooth, add salt to taste and season with spices. After kneading again, we form balls.

After pouring oil into a hot frying pan, dip the pieces in breading (or flour) before frying.

One part of the cutlets can be fried in a large amount of heated oil, turning them until they are fried. If you want them to become juicier, steam them for a few minutes under the lid. And the second part of the minced meat can be steamed (in a slow cooker, steamer, etc.) - healthy and no less tasty!

Nourishing, juicy carp cutlets are good for any occasion. Fatty and dense carp meat is ideal for cutlets, because does not have an unpleasant odor.

The main thing is to buy a fresh specimen and, preferably, a whole carcass, and not chopped fillets.

Gutting, cleaning, washing and bone removal must be of high quality.

You can add any vegetables to the minced meat, incl. potatoes, zucchini, bell peppers, as well as sour cream, cheese, etc.

You can add any spices, even without any measure - carp meat is sweet.

Before rolling the minced meat into balls, you need to dip your hands in water.

The cutlets are fried in oil over high heat and then simmered, covered with a lid. Or steamed, in the oven, etc.

Do you want cutlets to be even tastier? Finely chop the garlic and add it to the minced meat.

Are you not fasting? Add an egg to the minced meat, but then the loaf does not need to be soaked too much, because... the minced meat will turn out liquid, and this is undesirable.

If you don't like the strong smell of onions, fry them in oil.

You can prepare many nutritious dishes from carp. In this material we will tell you how to make cutlets from carp in Astrakhan, and also learn several more culinary ways to prepare minced fish. The beauty of carp is that the fish is not bony, its flesh is dense, and its meat is fatty. You can cook a sufficient number of cutlets from one carcass, because carp is a large fish, some individuals grow up to 20 kilograms or more in weight.