How to remove the fishy smell?

Many friends like to eat fish, but when they cook it themselves, they just can’t make it taste delicious, and there is a strong fishy smell, which greatly affects the taste. When cooking fish, be sure to take steps to remove the fishy smell. When slaughtering fish, you must do the appropriate cleaning, clean the internal organs and fish scales, and then when cooking, you can add an appropriate amount of cooking wine or ginger and garlic.

How to remove fishy smell

1. Some river fish have an earthy smell, which affects the taste when cooking. You can first gut the fish, clean it, place it in cold water, add a small amount of vinegar, or add a small amount of pepper or bay leaves to the water, and then cook it. The earthy smell will disappear.

2. River fish has a muddy smell. You can first wash the fish in salt water or rub it with salt to remove the odor.

3. You can use half a tael of salt and 5 kilograms of water. When soaking the live fish in salt water, the salt water will penetrate into the blood through the two gills. After an hour, the earthy smell will disappear. If it is a dead fish, soaking it in salt water for two hours can also remove the earthy smell.

4. After gutting and cleaning the river fish, put it in cold water and pour a small amount of vinegar and pepper into the water. This way, the river fish will no longer have an earthy smell.

5. After gutting and cleaning the fish, marinate it with red wine. The tannins and aroma in the wine can eliminate the fishy smell.

6. When slaughtering fish, rinse the blood off as much as possible. Then add onion, ginger, garlic and other seasonings when cooking, and the earthy smell can be basically removed.

7. When processing carp, there is a white tendon on each side of the carp's spine, which is the thing that causes the special fishy smell. When cutting the fish, make a small cut near the gills and the white tendons will be exposed. Use tweezers to grab them and gently pull them out. Then there will be no fishy smell when cooking.

8. Before frying the fish, soak it in milk for a while. This can remove the fishy smell and increase the flavor.

9. When frying river fish, first soak the fish in rice wine, then coat it with flour and fry it in the pan to remove the earthy smell.

10. For steamed fish with a strong fishy smell, marinate them in beer for 10 to 15 minutes. After they are cooked, not only will the fishy smell be greatly reduced, but the taste will also be similar to that of crabs. [Tips on how to remove fishy smell] It is common to accidentally break the gallbladder when cutting up a fish. The bile contaminates the fish flesh, making it taste bitter and unpalatable. If the gallbladder is broken, washing with water alone will not be very effective. You can use pure alkali to solve the problem. The specific method is to first rinse the fish with cold water and wash the yellow bile away. Sprinkle some pure alkali, wait a while, and then rinse with water. If the bile contamination area is large, soak the fish in a dilute pure alkaline solution for a while, then wash it, and the bitterness will be eliminated.