Koktal is a festive dish of Kazakh cuisine from large fish. It is considered an excellent choice for any feast. A carp cocktail will be a beautiful and tasty culinary delight, which is not a shame to serve invited guests.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For a cocktail, you need to purchase large fish of good quality. Fresh carp has clean eyes, pink-red gills, and an elastic carcass. There should be no spots and damage on the surface, dark or yellow mucus, as well as an unpleasant odor.
Did you know? The name of the carp is derived from the Kazakh words “saz”, which translates as silt, and “en” - Living being. Thus, the name of this fish is due to the fact that it prefers to be on a muddy bottom.
Making cocktail from carp
The following are (step by step) recipes for Kazakh-style cocktail from carp, according to which this dish can be prepared in the oven and smokehouse. In the latter case, you can use the barbecue.
Kazakh style in the oven
1090 minutes
seedless olives
200 g
Provence mayonnaise
300 ml
greens, salt, black pepper
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
On the carp, make an incision along the ridge from head to tail. Then open the fish like a book, and remove the insides, remove the gills. Cut the ridge with scissors.
Rub salt and pepper into the fish meat. You can use any seasoning for fish. Then cut the lemon into halves and squeeze the juice out of them, abundantly moisten the pulp.
Peppers from seeds, and onions - from the husk. Wash the vegetables. Cut them into half rings.
Lubricate the fish with mayonnaise and mark it on a wire rack.
Put a layer of onion on top of the common carp, then pepper, and the last layer - half rings of tomatoes.
Thoroughly grease everything from above with mayonnaise and decorate with olives.
Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C and bake for 50 minutes. Sprinkle the finished dish with herbs.
On the carp, make an incision along the ridge from head to tail. Then open the fish like a book, and remove the insides, remove the gills. Cut the ridge with scissors.
Rub salt and pepper into the fish meat. You can use any seasoning for fish. Then cut the lemon into halves and squeeze the juice out of them, abundantly moisten the pulp.
Peppers from seeds, and onions - from the husk. Wash the vegetables. Cut them into half rings.
Lubricate the fish with mayonnaise and mark it on a wire rack.
Put a layer of onion on top of the common carp, then pepper, and the last layer - half rings of tomatoes.
Thoroughly grease everything from above with mayonnaise and decorate with olives.
Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C and bake for 50 minutes. Sprinkle the finished dish with herbs.Video recipe
Important! When preparing a cocktail with fish, the scales are never cleaned, but they must get rid of the ridge.
In the smokehouse
87–8 hours
salt, coriander, black pepper
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Prepare the carp, as in the previous recipe, and rub it gently with salt. Set aside for 1 hour - for salting.
- During this time, the meat will take in the necessary concentration of salt, and the rest must be thoroughly washed with running water.
- Hang the carcass in the shade for 5 hours, so that it dries and fades.
- Peel and wash the onion, and then cut into half rings.
- Cut the tomatoes into medium slices.
- Put chopped tomatoes and half onion rings on the carcass.
- Sprinkle with coriander and pepper.
- Pour the wine, mix it with vegetables, and then grease the carcass well with a liquid mass. Wine can be replaced with apple cider vinegar.
- Peel and chop the bell peppers.
- Arrange onion, strips of pepper and slices of tomatoes in orderly order on the surface of the fish.
- Place the carp on the grate of the smokehouse closer to the bottom, and place twigs of apple trees under the grate itself. Kindle the fire. Bake until cooked.
Video recipe
Koktal turns out to be a very tasty fish dish and looks spectacular. It is prepared from whole, large fish, removing the ridge and revealing the carcass as a book, but in no case will the scales be removed. Vegetables are laid out on top of the fish before baking.
