It is known that the eel very much differs in a form from any other fish, and it is hard to cut him. But it is a delicacy for the sake of which it is worth trying. Whether there are secrets in cutting of the tasty zmeeobrazny inhabitant of the seas?
It is required to you
- - fresh or live eel;
- - linen napkins, hammer;
- - salt.
Instruction
1. Hold a slippery carcass of a live eel paper or linen napkins, hit him with the head in a firm surface or the wooden hammer, pierce the head with a sharp knife between head fins, let's flow down blood and wash up slime. Consider that blood of an eel is toxic, and don't allow it to get to cuts on a hand.
2. Apply other way that fish didn't slip out hands: rub hands and a carcass I will merge before processing, then wash away salt.
3. Make an incision skin around the head and remove from all fish entirely as a glove from a hand. That skin didn't slip out hands, take it by means of a linen or paper towel.
4. Knife a paunch sharp, beginning from the head and to an anus. Through this section further carefully take out an entrails, trying not to injure a gall bladder. If when imboweling fish bile spreads, at once wash out it, and rub the place on which bile got with salt or accurately cut out, otherwise fish will develop a bitter taste.
5. Take out a liver, then separate a gall bladder and at once wash out fish. Further remove other entrails, make an incision a film at a backbone from within and scratch off it from a cavity.
6. Cut off the head, wash out a carcass in cold water.
7. Cut an eel on fillet: flay, gut, at a fish trunk on both sides along a backbone make cuts, and then separate at first one fillet, and then, having cut off a spine bone, the second fillet.
8. Cut an eel flank steaks: cut the cleaned eel along a backbone on two parts, and then cut each part across pieces. Cut fish beginning from the head. If flank steaks are prepared for frying in batter (mobile dough), then cut small bars thickness 1.5-2sm.
9. Don't undress little eels, they can be not cleaned, and entirely to fry in hot fan.