Carp soup, carp stew, carp salad, carp sandwich, carp burger: Get recipes here

[Skunk]

Carp soup, carp stew, carp salad, carp sandwich, carp burger: Get your recipes here

By Sarah Crone, Kalamazoo Gazette, found at Mlive.com

January 21, 2010


Carp on a plate: Looks delicious, doesn't it? (fotobank.com)

Carp in Lake Michigan getting you down? Well cheer up, buttercup. You maybe change your tune when you find out what you can make with it.

Like Bubba from Forest Gump would say, carp is the fruit of the sea.

You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's carp chowder, carp casserole with bacon, carp casserole with carrots. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's carp cake, carp soup, carp stew, carp salad, carp and potatoes, carp burger, carp sandwich. That — that's about it.

Once you catch 'em, here's how you can cook 'em:

Buttermilk fried carp fillets

Ingredients:
2 pounds carp fillets
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup biscuit mix or pancake mix
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon dried lemon flakes

Directions:
Remove the skin of the carp. Take out all the brownish-redish-colored part of the meat, and discard the "mud vein." Chunk up the rest of the carp fillets. Place fillet pieces in a shallow dish. Pour the buttermilk over them and let it stand for half an hour, turning the fillets over once during that time.

Stir the salt into the biscuit mix. Take fillets out of the buttermilk and pat them into the biscuit mix, covering both sides.

Fry fillets in deep fryer or in hot oil in fry-pan for 5-10 min. or until cooked through and browned on both sides. Use tongs or slotted spoon to turn them. (If oil is too hot, they will brown too quickly and not cook within.) Drain on paper towels. Serve with lemon wedges if available. Serves 4-6.

Carp stew

Ingredients:
4 pounds carp
1/4 pound bacon
1/4 cup onion, chopped
1 cup tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar

Directions:
Fry bacon in a dutch oven or small kettle until crisp. Add other ingredients and simmer for 45 minutes.

Carp salad

Ingredients:
3 lbs. fresh carp
3 tbsp. heavy oil
cumin
chili
saffron
peanut butter warmed to 120 degrees
3 cups soybeans / whole grains
lettuce leaf for decoration
dry roasted chilis

Directions:
Sautee carp in oil w/ spices. Do not drain oil. Toss in a huge pile w/ beans & peanut butter, mix well. Spread onto a lettuce leaf, top with chili. Place in a closet for 2 to 3 days to ripen seal in plastic bag.

Carp Burgers

Ingredients:
2 kilos of Carp
1/2 tsp. sage, powdered
1 teaspoon celery salt
1/4 cup onion, minced
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. Cajun paste optional

Directions:
Fillet Carp, skin and remove rib sections. Mix baking soda with enough water to cover fillets and soak overnight. Rinse fillets under cold water and dry with paper towels. Run fillets through meat grinder with fine blade twice.

Mix onion, sage, celery salt, pepper and Carp well in a large bowl. Form into patties, roll in dry pancake flour and drop into hot oil.

Fry about two minutes on each side until brown, drain on paper towels and serve with horseradish, mustard, or shrimp cocktail sauce.

Carp cake

Ingredients:
1 cup flaked, cooked carp
3 cups mashed potatoes
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons bacon grease
1/2 tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon paprika

Directions:
Mix carp, potatoes, bacon grease, butter, salt, pepper and paprika; then add beaten egg, Shape into cakes and pan fry in hot grease until a golden brown.

Favorite carp recipe

Ingredients:
4 Burbot Fillets
1 diced Green Pepper
1 diced medium Onion
1/2 tsp. Garlic powder
1/2 tsp. MSG (MSG)
4 oz. White Wine
4 oz. Water
1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions:
Saute Diced pepper and onion until glazed. Add all other ingredients. Stir, cover the pan and cook until done. Serve.

For more recipes like these visit these sites: BassOnHook.com, FishingSociety.org, Epicurious.com

http://www.mlive.com/living/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/01/carp_soup_carp_stew_carp_salad.html

[Lloyd Smale]

buddy used to can it and eat it like tuna. ill tell you what it was better then any tuna you ever ate.

[Skunk]

I'll bet it wasn't bad at all, Lloyd. I'd try it and probably enjoy it. It would be like eating a big Gold Fish. Seriously - same family of fish.

[jdt48653]

cold water carp is exc.warm water carp is fertilizer.

[theoldarcher]

Agree with jdt!  We used to clean out the white meat chunks, soak them in milk overnight, then bread them and deep fry them--very tasty 'poppers'.

Arch

[dukkillr]

buddy used to can it and eat it like tuna. ill tell you what it was better then any tuna you ever ate.

You want to drive to Kansas in April and I'll give you all the carp you could ever can... I'd rather eat walleye or crappie or even catfish.