Traditional Black sauce Carp (Black Carp)

7. 10. 2025

Carp served with a mouth-watering prune, walnut, and raisin sauce; this Czech dinner party dish is impressive yet surprisingly easy to prepare. 

Boiled new potatoes and a cucumber salad will complement the carp beautifully.

Treat your guests to a real feast and prepare a caper they have never eaten!

Bon apetite!

Ingredients

• 1 carp
• 1/2 cup carrots
• 1/4 cup parsley
• a piece of celery
• 1 onion
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 1 glass of red wine
• 1 cup of dark beer (Ale)
• 2 tablespoons of wine vinegar
• 3 spoons of old gingerbread
• 2 scoops of plum jam
• a pinch of thyme
• Bay leaf
• allspice
• a handful of sultanas (big raisins)
• a few peeled almonds
• juice of 1 lemon
• salt, pepper and sugar to taste

Method

Fish

• First, you need to boil fresh carp and pour the blood into a bowl.
• Rinse the inside of the fish with vinegar and add the vinegar to the blood in the bowl. Then wash the carp, divide into “horseshoes” and salt.
• All vegetables must then be peeled and cut into cubes. In the next step, put it in hot butter and fry it on all sides.
• Then add lemon juice, allspice, bay leaf, thyme, sultanas, almonds and cover everything with half a liter of boiling water.
• Then put the fish in the container with the prepared mixture and cook everything for about 10 minutes.
• At the end, simply remove the fish from the pot and clean it from the bones, then transfer it to another warm container.

Sauce

• The next step is to prepare the sauce. Add the grated gingerbread, beer, jam and blood with vinegar to the pot and bring to a boil.
• Then serve the carp, pour the sauce through a strainer and you’re done!

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