How to fillet fish for beginners

Fish is a very nutritious food. Many people like to eat fish and also like to cook fish themselves. However, for those who have never done it, it is very difficult to fillet fish when cooking. They often fill the fish poorly, slice it too thin or too thick, or cut their fingers. It is particularly difficult to operate. For novices, it is crucial to master some tips. So today, let’s take a look at how novices fillet fish.

1. How to fillet fish

1. When buying fish, ask the seller to kill, scale and remove the internal organs for you. When you go home and prepare it yourself, remove the remaining internal organs, clean the black film inside the fish belly, cut off the fins, chop off the head and tail

2. Before filleting the fish, wipe the water off the fish. Place the fish fillet on the chopping board, cut from the side where the fish head was chopped off, and cut horizontally above the fish bone close to the bone to cut off the upper half of the fish meat.

3. Cut two pieces, one with a fish bone in the middle

4. Place the fish bone with its back facing up on the chopping board, and use a knife to cut horizontally close to the bone to separate the fish bone from the fish body.

5. Cut the fish into two pieces and a fish bone in the middle.

6. Slice the fish: Take a piece of fish body, place it on the chopping board with the skin facing down and the tail facing left, and start slicing from the tail. Hold the tail of the fish with your left hand, and cut diagonally along the direction of the fishbone (that is, cut diagonally from the head to the tail of the fish), and cut into fillets of about 0.5 cm (the tighter you hold with your left hand, the easier it will be to slice). After the fish fillets are cut, cut the fish bones in the middle into small pieces

Remark:

1. The knife must be sharp. If the knife is blunt, it will not only be difficult to cut well, but also easy to hurt your hands.

2. Step 4: Remove the fish bone in the middle. The fish bone can be facing up or down, depending on your habit.

3. Step 6: When slicing the fish, hold the fish firmly with your left hand. If you don’t hold the fish firmly, the knife will not be easy to fix and cut, and it will also hurt your hand.