Cleaning Your Fish Season Two

How to fillet round fish when you Cleaning Your Fish?

1. After cleaning the fish,remove the head and cut the fins.
2. Place the fish on a plat surface and, with your left hand, hold it near the head in an upright position (that is, in swimming position).
3. With the point of a sharp knife make a deep incision along its back - from the neck to the tail - following the lines of its dorsal fins.
   
4. When the knife tip has gone through the flesh and reached the backbone, continue down the right side of fish, gently slicing flesh away from bone.
5. Lay the fish on its right side. Holding the tail with your left hand, make an incision at the tail and with the point of the knife.
6. Proceed to slice away the flesh (keeping knife close to the bone) by working from the tail towards the head.
7. Remove any small bones that remain in the two fillets.

How to fillet flat fish?

With flat fish, such as flounder, it is best to remove to narrow fillets from each side, rather than one wide fillet.

1. Using a sharp knife, cut off the head and slit down the centre back, close the dorsal pin.
2. Make another cut down the length of the fish to separate the fillets.
3. Keeping the knife near to the bone, cut in long smooth strokes between the fillet and the bones until the fish and completely separated.
4. Turn the fish around and remove the other fillet.
5. Turn fthe fish over and remove the two fillets from the other side in the same way.
   

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