How to clean and prepare fish before cooking ( How to gut a fish ) How to clean fish - Gutting fish

hi everyone I'm Naomi welcome to my Filipino Cooking Channel today I'm going to show you how to clean and prepare fish before cooking I pass you over tomorrow hi everybody I'm mark I'm the fisherman and in this video I'm going to show you how to cut clean and prepare a fish before cooking I'm going to give you two options one with a head on one with a head off and you'll see from this video I'm using an ordinary kitchen knife just to show you how easy it is to clean a fish wait until the end of this video for sneaky pick up some are disappears welcome to this tutorial on how to clean a fish today we're using a macro as you can see it's complete and the first thing to do is to take your knife up by the dorsal fin and just cut towards the head halfway through like so then flip it over and do the same the other way now this is if you were going to take the head off we'll show you in a minute how to do this without taking the head off and that comes out nicely now if you look on the bottom of the fish you'll see it's a little faint just there just slide the knife into the vent and up the stomach there's a cavity there with all the intestines so this goes really easy just open it up take your knife into the middle and just scrape away all the guts and the intestines now the one thing you will notice is that there's a black line on the base but the backbone this is actually a blood sack and we've noticed when going to a fishmongers in France they actually don't clean this if you don't clean this the blood remains and it will create a bitterness to your fish so we do take your thumb and just run it along that sank and then just clean it under water and that will be totally removed and that's your fish cleaned just rinse it under water job done you can either cut the tail off or leave it on depending on your preference and that's how to clean a fish okay just the final thing just to rinse of the fish and the water so I've already open that up set out I'm just running my finger along and did you see just pulling out Brian there we have a lovely clean fish okay we have another mackerel here and what I'm going to show you now is how to clean a mackerel but to keep the head on so again looking at the bottom you've got the vent just slide your knife in and work your way up to the head just to where we cut it beforehand we can then open the fish up just take a knife in and then scrape the innards out and again you've got the blouse so we'll just use that farm so open that up because we haven't taken the head off just stick your finger in the head Department and you probably find a little bit extra just pull that out and as you can see the fish is now completely clean I just rinsed it under the water and this is how to clean the fish and to keep the head on for full presentation okay so we have the head on we're just gonna Britt's fish get rid of that blood is fine actually fish claims guys if you like Filipino fish recipes check out my playlist entitled Filipino seafood recipes I hope you enjoyed this video today on how to clean and prepare fish before cooking if you like it didn't like it and if you Lobby please subscribe more recipe to follow from my Filipino cooking channel thanks for watching guys stay tuned because I release new Filipino recipes every week from my Filipino cooking channel in English [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Life in France and Filipino Cooking Channel

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Id: qWnmQubQYlE

Length: 6min 37sec (397 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 14 2019