Crucian carp is related to common carp or common carp. Its caviar is not inferior in taste or useful properties. A lot of interesting and simple dishes, such as pancakes, can be prepared from the product.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For caviar, as the people call caviar pancakes, you need to choose a quality product. Female spawns in May-June, depending on the region. Accordingly, the sale of fish "with a surprise" can be purchased in late spring - early summer.
Important! If the gills are yellowish, and the eyes are cloudy, and there is sticky mucus on the surface, then the fish is stale.
Unfortunately, there are no obvious differences between a female and a male; a swollen belly often contains milk instead of caviar. However, in any case, you need to choose fresh fish without a foreign smell, with clean eyes and pink gills. Before kneading the dough, the “bag” with caviar is washed, and then the film is carefully removed from it.
A female crucian in the absence of males of its family can be fertilized with the help of other species of cyprinids.
Recipes for making pancakes from crucian caviar
From the eggs of river fish, delicious, and most importantly, healthy pancakes are obtained. At the same time, various ingredients can be added to the dough if desired. It can be chopped vegetables, herbs, favorite spices. Hash browns are served as an independent dish with sour cream, mustard or other sauce.
With onion
230 minutes
dried herbs (dill or parsley)
pinch
vegetable oil
4–5 Art. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Peel and chop the onion as finely as possible. In the bowl with the main product add eggs.
Then salt, herbs and onions.
After that, flour is introduced into a spoon. You need to add until you get the consistency of thick sour cream.
Pour 3-4 tbsp into the pan. l oil, warm up. Fry pancakes on both sides until browning.
Peel and chop the onion as finely as possible. In the bowl with the main product add eggs.
Then salt, herbs and onions.
After that, flour is introduced into a spoon. You need to add until you get the consistency of thick sour cream.
Pour 3-4 tbsp into the pan. l oil, warm up. Fry pancakes on both sides until browning.Video recipe
With onions Video recipe: With onions
Did you know? Aquarium goldfish belongs to the genus of crucian carp. She was artificially bred in China.
With semolina
4-640 minutes
sunflower oil
4–5 Art. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Chop the onion in a blender or grate it to make slurry.
- In a bowl with the main ingredient, add 3 tablespoons of flour and semolina.
- Add onion, egg and spices to the mixture.
- Stir the mass well.
- You need to fry in hot oil, like ordinary pancakes until a crust appears on both sides.
Important! Fritters with semolina is recommended to fry after frying 5–7 min., Sprinkled with water. The cereal will swell, the appearance of pancakes will become more attractive.
The recipes described above are easy to prepare. Kneading the dough and frying does not take much time, and the pancakes, judging by the reviews, are saturated and tasty.
