Baked Carp in Butter and Cumin

7. 10. 2025

Is the cumin flavor what you’re after?

Do you want to revive your classic Christmas recipe with something interesting?

Start preparing carp, the taste of which is interestingly enhanced by cumin!

Ingredients

1 carp fillet
3 tablespoons of wine vinegar
2 eggs
3 tablespoons of milk
1 cup breadcrumbs
½ teaspoon of ground cumin
salt
pepper
1/2 cup butter
frying oil

Method

Wash the fish fillets, dry them with a paper towel, drizzle with wine vinegar, and sprinkle with salt, pepper, and ground cumin.
Set aside for 1/2 hour in a cool place.
Crack the eggs into a bowl, add milk and a pinch of salt, and beat with a fork. Dust the carp fillets with flour, dip them in eggs, and coat them in breadcrumbs.
Wrap the carp fillets in the cumin batter.
Fry until golden brown on both sides in hot oil with butter.
Dry the fried fillets of excess fat on a paper towel. Serve the fish with bread or potatoes and salad.

Butter carp on cumin — source: doradcasmaku.pl

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Author of the article Milan & Ondra

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