By EasyHow

How to clean perch

Often on winter fishing most of the catch is small perch. However, the house will have to clean the fish to prepare a delicious dish such as fish cakes or jellied perch. Cleaning of fish is labour intensive and troublesome, the acquisition of certain skills, the cleaning and gutting perch will take a little time, I will not have to seem so unpleasant and difficult.

You will need

- A sharp knife,
- cutting Board.

Instruction

To make it easier to clean a fish, you need to freeze the perch. But it is important to ensure that the carcass perch lie flat, then cleaning will not cause much difficulty.

Frozen fish, remove from the freezer and place for a few seconds under hot water.

Take a sharp knife and cut the skin on the back around the dorsal fin from head to tail.

To make an incision around the head. The resulting area of skin near the head to take a pair of pliers and pull towards the tail. The same is done with the second side of the perch.

Using pliers to pull out the dorsal fin to the side of the head.

Then you need to cut off the head and tail. To make an incision in the abdomen from the head to the anus and remove the entrails. Clean away the black film.

The obtained carcasses of grouper can be fried in batter or prepare the aspic. Very tasty, yum.

Note

If you buy fish at the market, pay attention to appearance, to avoid poisoning. Fresh fish has a clean, smooth and shiny scales. Gills are red, eyes bulging, clear and shiny. The freshness of the fish can determine if to lower the fish into the water, fresh fish from going down, and the spoiled will float to the surface.

Useful advice

If you decide to fry perch, to remove the skin is not desirable, because it ensures the tenderness and juiciness of the fish. In this case, take a perch by the tail and dip in boiling water for a few seconds. You can then clean the fish from scales, it will come down easily.

Another way to clean bass scales: pile perch in a bowl and cover with coarse salt, in the morning you can easily remove pomaceus scales. Order fish cleaned easily, you need to squeeze the tail and pulling the head up to a crunch of vertebrae. You can then safely clean a fish.