Curried Small Carp
Curried Small Carp

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, curried small carp. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carp have been eaten in various cultures around the world for millennia. Here, most people consider it a "trash fish," if not worse. My inspiration for this recipe was a YouTube video by Luke Nichols at his Catfish and Carp channel.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook curried small carp using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Curried Small Carp:
  1. Make ready 4 small carp fish or tilapia
  2. Take 1 chopped onion
  3. Prepare 1 chopped tomato
  4. Get 1 chopped bell pepper
  5. Take 1 Bay leaf
  6. Take 2 kafir leaves
  7. Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
  8. Prepare 1 scotch bonnet
  9. Make ready 2 tbsp chopped garlic
  10. Get 1 tsp tumeric
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp hot madras curry powder
  12. Prepare Olive oil for frying
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup flour
  14. Get 1 Maggi seasoning cube
  15. Take 1 fish stock

Keep in mind there is no reason you need to use carp here; it's just that carp is traditional. Any small fish that can fit in a wok will do: Rock cod, bluegills, smallmouth bass, white bass, black seabass, porgies, spot, croaker – you get the point. Any fish that's a little too small to properly fillet works. Keith Bell from K & C Fisheries catches, prepares and cooks carp.

Instructions to make Curried Small Carp:
  1. In a bowl mix flour, maggi cube and coat fish and set aside.
  2. In a deep pan add olive oil and fry, scotch bonnet, mustard seeds and bay leaf for 1 minute.
  3. Add onions, pepper, and saute. Add garlic, curry powder and the rest of the seasoning and fry for one minute. Add tomatoes and mix well
  4. Add fish and fish stock and simmer for 10 - 15 mins or until fish is cooked. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  5. Serve with rice, mushy peas and sweetcorn
  6. Enjoy.

Carp is traditionally served with steamed potatoes or frites, a green salad, lemon wedges, and mayonnaise, and an Alsatian white wine such as pinot blanc. The fish is typically eaten with hands, not utensils. A sharp knife is essential if you plan to cut perpendicular through the spine for steaks. Additionally, small bones will remain in fillets. In Iraq, carp is used to make Masgouf.

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