Pollock – fish of family treskovy, one of the main food fishes in our country. In shops it is possible to buy this fish in the form of fillet, backs (brainless and a tail) or in the rough look. In the latter case a pollock it will be necessary to clean correctly before preparation.
It is required to you
- Sharp knife or special knife for cleaning of fish
- cutting board.
Instruction
1. Don't forget that the taste of future fish dish half depends on rules of preprocessing of products. If you bought frozen fish, at first it needs to be defrozen. It can be done by means of the microwave, having included the defrosting mode for several minutes. Or to wait until the pollock is defrozen in the natural way. It is possible to defreeze fish under a water jet in a sink.
2. After that take a large chopping board, a knife or a special scraper for scales. Put a pollock on a board that it lay a tail to the right side if you the right-handed person. Now it is necessary to purify scales. Incline a few knife or a scraper and begin to remove it, kind of "against wool". Clean fish from scales from two parties. Then it needs to cut off the head. It is necessary to make it in centimeter from the end of gills. Then strong take a pollock in a hand a belly up and make a section. It has to be sufficient that it was possible to remove a knife all entrails. Remove everything from within a pollock, including a belly nap.
3. Now it was necessary only to wash fish. A part of a belly nap can remain inside, and the prepared dish will taste bitter therefore carefully wash out the film remains in a paunch and dry fish. After all these manipulations the pollock is ready to preparation. Now it is possible to cook safely from it all the favourite dishes.
4. Of course, a smell of fish not really pleasant, especially from a pollock, but it is possible to get rid of it by several effective methods: - to remove a fishy odor from hands, wash up them in the added some salt water and strew hands with citric acid; - wet ware, a cutting board, knives in the cold added some salt water for several minutes, and then wash with warm water; - to reduce a smell of fish in preparation time, add several drops of lemon juice to the boiling dish or it is a little milk; - fry thoroughly couple of spoons of ground coffee in a frying pan to get rid of a fishy odor in kitchen.