Have you ever tried fish soup with millet from the head of a carp, which was cooked over a fire? Have you tried it? That's in vain! This dish is simply indescribably delicious. It’s clear that you can’t make fish soup at home, but I’ll tell you how to cook an equally wonderful dish in a slow cooker. This recipe will come in handy when you bake. In this case, you can save the fish head for soup.
My father often took me fishing. Somehow he liked it when I helped, and he probably wasn’t bored with me. And for me this process brought so many emotions and impressions that these memories from childhood were enough for the rest of my life. In addition to the thrill of the fact that my father was about to pull another fish out of the water, I also remembered the moment of preparing the fish soup, which we always cooked. How delicious it turned out!
Recipe information
Cuisine: first course.
Cooking method: in a slow cooker.
Total cooking time: 40 min.
Number of servings: 3-4 .
Ingredients:
- carp head – 1 pc.
- onion (large) - 1 pc.
- carrots – 1 pc.
- millet – 50 g.
How to cook:
Fish soup is prepared near the river from fresh, just caught fish. In other conditions, fish soup can be prepared at home, but always from fresh carp. I have just such a case, there is fish - there will be fish soup. Preparation and cooking take minimal time. For dinner, delicious aromatic fish soup.
Ingredients for making carp soup.
Clean the carp from scales and gut it. Rinse the fish thoroughly several times. Pay special attention to cutting the head of the carp, remove the gills and scrape in the middle - where the gills were.
Prepare vegetables as for regular soup: peel and cut.
Place all the vegetables in a pan of boiling water: potatoes, onions and carrots. Cook until the vegetables are half cooked.
Add carp, cut into pieces, to the soup. And the head too. Now the soup should cook slowly, but not boil. Do not cover with a lid. Remove any foam that appears in the ear. Add spices: peppercorns, Bay leaf and salt.
After 10 minutes, check the taste of the fish soup, and then remove it from the heat. Let it brew for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
Many people think that fish soup is a fisherman’s dish and that it can only be cooked deliciously over a fire, but this is not true. You can cook tasty fish soup from carp heads at home. Unlike fish soup, when fish broth is seasoned with cereal, preparing fish soup from carp heads requires a minimum of ingredients.
Ingredients for carp head soup:
- 1-2 heads of large carp
- 1-2 tails, fins
- 3-4 pieces of carp carcass
- 2.5 liters of water
- bulb
- carrot
- 3-4 potatoes
- parsley root
- salt, pepper, bay leaf, black peppercorns, fresh herbs
Cut the fish, separate the head, tail, and fins. 
Remove the gills from the head. If they are not removed, the ear will taste bitter. Rinse all prepared parts of fish.
Place white root, bay leaf, peppercorns, head with gills removed, tail, fins into a saucepan with broth.
Bring the broth to a boil, skim off the foam, reduce heat, and simmer fish heads 15 minutes. 
Remove the pan from the heat and strain the broth through a sieve. Select meat from heads, fins, tails, discard waste.
Place diced potatoes, onions and carrots, salt and pepper in a pan with fish broth. Bring the fish soup to a boil and cook until the vegetables are ready. At the end of cooking, add chopped dill and green onions.
Pour soup from carp heads into plates, add fish pieces removed from the heads and fins. Place a slice of lemon on a plate. It will decorate the dish and help improve its taste.
How to cook carp soup
If the carp heads are too small and there is no meat in them, cook the fish soup with pieces of the carp carcass.
Make a basic broth from the carp heads. Then place the pieces of fish in a saucepan with broth along with potatoes, carrots and onions. In 15 minutes the fish will have time to cook. Pour chopped fresh herbs into a plate with carp soup and add lemon.
Prepare carp for the main course, recipe.
Step-by-step photo recipe for making fish soup from a carp head.
carp head – 1-2 pcs. (700 gr.),
potatoes - 4-5 pcs.,
onions – 1-2 pcs.,
carrots - 1-2 pcs.,
fresh herbs - to taste,
allspice and black peas - to taste,
coriander, red ground pepper- taste,
bay leaf - 1-2 pcs.,
water - 2-2.5 l.
Ear- This is a first course known since ancient times and popularly loved. Very delicious fish soup it turns out if you cook it on the river bank from freshly caught fish. You can prepare delicious and rich fish soup at home, thereby pampering yourself and your loved ones with this healthy dish.
There are many recipes for making fish soup. Fish soup can be prepared from various types fish. Today we will tell and show you how to cook carp fish soup.
- Very delicious first dish. The recipe for making fish soup is so simple that even a novice cook can handle it.
If you are preparing this dish for the first time, then our step by step photo carp head soup recipe will help you prepare it. Try it, you will definitely be able to cook it.
Making fish soup from carp heads.
To prepare fish soup from carp head you need to prepare the fish. To do this, if your carp is unpeeled, you need to wash it, clean the scales and carefully gut it so as not to damage the gallbladder. Then wash the fish again and cut into portions. In our recipe for making carp fish soup, we use only the head and tail.
When preparing fish soup from the head, be sure to remove the gills. Since our carp was large, we will use the fillet parts to prepare another recipe.
Next you need to prepare the vegetables. We use vegetables for fish soup, as in many other first courses. Peel the potatoes, rinse and cut into cubes or cubes. Be sure to add peeled potatoes cold water, so it won't darken.
Peel the onion, rinse and cut into small cubes.
Peel the carrots, rinse and cut into thin slices or at your discretion.
Rinse the greens under running water, lightly dry and finely chop.
Next, add the potatoes to a pan of boiling salted water.
After boiling, you need to remove the foam.
Now you need to add the fish to the pan.
Next, add red, allspice, black pepper, coriander and bay leaf to the pan.
Then add onions and carrots. You can also add tomato to the ear. Cook the fish soup until the vegetables and fish head are cooked. In order for the ukha to retain its characteristic sweetness, you need to make sure that the fish is not overcooked.
Then you need to turn off the fire. Add finely chopped greens to the pan with the fish soup.
Carp soup - perfect dish for the dining table. This soup can be prepared not only at home, but also, for example, while fishing or hiking. In this case, it is better to use freshly caught fish. It will make the first dish even more aromatic and tasty.
Delicious and rich fish soup: carp recipe
There are several ways you can prepare this dish yourself. We will present two simple recipes, which are most popular among lovers of fish dinners.
So, we need:
- carp heads and fins - about 800 g;
- small potatoes - 2 pcs.;
- medium bitter onion - 2 pcs.;
- fresh parsley - a small bunch;
- long grain rice - 0.5 cups;
- medium-sized carrot - 1 pc.;
- deodorized oil - 25 ml;
- iodized salt - use at discretion;
- filtered water - 2.5 l;
- pickled tomatoes - 2 pcs.
Preparing the Components
Before preparing carp soup, you should thoroughly rinse the heads and fins of the fish. If you think that there will not be enough meat in them for soup, then you can use a small piece of the belly.
After preparing the fish, you should start processing the vegetables. They need to be washed and cleaned, and then crushed. Potatoes and onions need to be cut into cubes, medium-sized carrots need to be grated, and pickled tomatoes need to be peeled and converted into a paste using a blender or a regular fork.
As for rice cereal, you just need to sort it out and rinse it thoroughly.
Saute some of the ingredients
To make the carp soup as flavorful as possible, it is recommended to add sautéed vegetables to the soup. To do this, place the carrots and onions in a frying pan, season them with salt and deodorized oil, and then fry until golden brown.
Cooking a fish dish on the stove
So that you get a tasty and rich soup from carp heads, all prepared fish products should be placed in a pan, filled with water, boiled and cooked for about ¼ hour. After this, in the same bowl you need to place a gruel of pickled tomatoes, potatoes, salt and rice cereal. It is advisable to cook these ingredients for about 20 minutes.
Having achieved softness of the vegetables and cereals, the carp heads should be removed from the pan and cooled. In the future, you need to separate the meat pieces from the fish and throw away the rest.
Final stage
Having prepared a delicious fish broth, you need to add chopped parsley to it, and also lay out the sautéed vegetables. In this composition, you need to boil the products, add separated pieces of carp to them, cover with a lid and remove from the stove. After steeping the dish for about ¼ hour, it should be placed on plates and presented to the household along with bread and some salad.
How to cook carp soup that is aromatic and very tasty?
Another recipe for the presented dish requires the use of garlic sauce, which makes lunch even more aromatic and tasty. To prepare it, we will need:
- fresh large carp - 1.5 kg;
- large white onion - 1 head;
- medium potatoes - 2 pcs.;
- medium ripe tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
- filtered water - 2 l;
- bay leaf - 2 leaves;
- garlic cloves - 4 pcs.;
- deodorized oil - 100 ml;
- freshly squeezed lemon juice - about 3 large spoons;
- fresh parsley - a small bunch;
- salt and crushed black pepper - use as desired.
Preparing Ingredients
As you dared to notice, carp soup is prepared very easily and quickly. To make the presented dish with garlic sauce, you should process all prepared products one by one. First you need to gut the fish, cut off all the fins, tail and head, leaving only the meaty belly. It needs to be cut into portioned pieces and put it aside.
Next, you need to start processing the remaining ingredients. Thus, you should peel the potatoes and white onions, and then chop them into cubes. Concerning fresh tomatoes, then you only need to wash them and cut them into 4 slices.
Making garlic sauce
Before you start preparing delicious and rich fish dish, need to do flavorful sauce. To do this, you need to crush the garlic with a press, and then put it in a blender along with deodorized oil and beat at high speed. Finally, add to the sauce Fresh Juice lemon and mix well.
Cooking fish soup
To prepare this dish, you need to boil 2 liters of water in a large saucepan, and then put pieces of carp, onions and potatoes into it. After salting the ingredients, they should be cooked over low heat for about 20 minutes. After the specified time has passed, you need to add salt, bay leaf, chopped pepper, fresh parsley to the broth, and also add chopped tomatoes. In this composition, products need to be cooked for ten minutes.
Serving fish soup correctly
After all the ingredients are prepared, the carp pieces must be removed from the broth and placed on a plate. Soft on top tender fish should be poured generously with garlic sauce. Further rich soup needs to be poured into deep bowls and presented to guests along with fragrant carp and a piece of bread. In the end you should get full meal, which can saturate any adult well.
Let's sum it up
Now you know how carp soup is prepared. Using the above recipes, you can set a very beautiful dining table that will please every member of your household.
