Maldives Seafood

seamaster 6 July 2008 Featured, Seafood Recipes 5,613 views One Comment Print This Post

If you have bought a whole fish, you need to fillet it before cooking. If you are buying fish from the fish market, fishmonger can do this for you. If not lets try out.

First, you need a sharp knife, so that it becomes easier for the filleting.

Start by gutting the fish, slit open the belly of the fish and ease out the guts.

Then, skin it by holding the tail of fish towards you. And use the knife starting from the flesh upper most towards the tail. Make sure to keep the blade of the knife as close as possible to the skin.

Another way of skinning is to make a nick on the skin at the top of the fish using a knife. Then hold that skin and ease it using your hand pulling towards the tail. Do as same on the other side of the fish.

Finally remove the fillets by holding the tail of the fish, and run the knife along the center bone, removing the fillet on one side of the bone. Start from tail towards the head. When the fillet on one side is removed, turn to other side and do as same, leaving the center bone with tail. And both the fillets are removed.

If you want to grill or cook a whole fish, you only need to gut and scale it leaving the skin, bone and head with it. Scaling a fish is very simple. Hold the tail of the fish, scrape the scales towards the head by using a knife, until all the scales are removed.