How to quickly cut up a herring: secrets of advanced housewives
These methods will help you clean your fish without any effort.
In less than half an hour, you will have perfect pieces ready to serve to your guests.
The right choice of fish
Don't rush to buy herring, first examine it carefully. A good fish should not have dirt, plaque, skin damage or yellow spots on its surface. Its skin should shine and not stick.
Advice! Press the carcass with your finger. The meat of fresh fish will straighten out immediately.
The gills of a "correct" herring are dark red without any specific aromas.
To understand how expired the fish is, just pay attention to its eyes. Lightly salted fish has pure protein. If more salt was used, the eyes become cloudy.
Cutting methods:
- separate the body from the head;
- rip open the fish's belly and remove the entrails from the inside;
- remove the film present on the inside;
- make a cut along the spine and remove the fin on the back;
- very carefully remove the skin from the carcass. It is better to start from the head;
- remove the tail;
- carefully separate the meat from the spine;
- remove small bones using tweezers.
Another way:
- remove the head and tail from the carcass;
- remove the fins, having first made cuts along the spine;
- remove the entrails and films;
- wrap the herring in film or a napkin;
- tap it on the cutting board;
- open the fish to form a "book";
- remove the spine;
- remove small bones with tweezers;
- carefully remove the skin.
The third method. Suitable for salads. Since the fish is cut into four parts.
Procedure for performing work:
- remove the head and dorsal fin from the fish;
- rip open the belly and gut the carcass;
- make an incision along the back and remove the skin;
- make a 1 cm deep cut near the tail. And twist the herring, holding it by the tail in the air;
- tear the fish into two pieces, holding it by the tail;
- remove the spine and bones.
How to get rid of the specific smell of fish
Salted herring has one bad quality - after working with it, your hands and everything you used emit an unpleasant smell.
What to do:
- the board for work should be plastic. It does not have the ability to absorb odors;
- Before starting work, cover the surface with cling film or parchment paper;
- gloves will help protect your hands;
- If you don't have gloves, after work you need to wipe your palms with lemon juice or vinegar.
- The acid will also help remove the odor from the appliances.
Each of the suggested methods will help housewives cope with cutting fish. It is very important to check the quality: whether small bones have been removed, so as not to do this later during the meal.
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