Herring popular as an ingredient of a plurality of salads or as a snack. It is found in great abundance and mass species. However, buying a whole fish will inevitably have to face its cleaning process. The event is not difficult, but the specifics of his course there.
First of all, the fish must be fresh, not peremorozhennoy and second freshness. This is a guarantee that it will be an easy cleaning and the structural integrity of herring continue.
Signs of freshness of fish the color of the gills, no pungent smell, meat color and texture. Fish should not be slimy and loose. These rules are the same for most types of fish, whether smoked or salted herring.
So, be cleaned in one motion as follows. Armed with a sharp knife for cutting filerovochnym fish made an incision on the abdomen of the fish. Not deep, starting from the tail (Slotting vertebrae and cutting off the tail fin) are conducting blade to the base of the head.
Then, turning the blade parallel to the gills, making an incision underneath. Thus separating the fillet from the head on both sides, return the blade to the back of the herring and doing the last movement of the knife along the spine. The incision should be deep and held in the middle of the spine touching it lightly for easy extraction of the latter.
After that, with the proviso that fresh fish fingers vertebra is removed together with the edges. Extract should slowly, smoothly or risk leaving a lot of bones in the fillet. Gut just extracted in one movement, you can with a knife during the passage of the abdomen, it is possible after the fingers. The skin is removed as a film after, too, without any complications.
So, in the end we get two clean fileyki without bones and skin, peeled as well as internal.
There are also other ways, more troublesome and time consuming. One of them involves removing viscera, separating the fish head and then driving the knife along the vertebral separating fillets with bones.
After removing the vertebra with a comb and some large bones. The method less effective as and the like. It is therefore not the most desirable.
Also, pay special attention to the sharpness of a knife, a guarantee of high-quality cutting.
