How To Fillet A Hake

Author: Ivan Red Jr. Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Fish is a healthy and tasty ingredient in many dishes. Housewives are happy to use fish, and with even greater pleasure - fish fillets in order to cook delicious dishes.

Hake how to cut

Fish is a healthy and tasty ingredient in many dishes. Housewives are happy to use fish, and with even greater pleasure - fish fillets in order to cook delicious dishes.

At present, in supermarkets, you can easily buy fillets of any fish and, it would seem, there is no need to learn how to cut fish into fillets. But one should also take into account the nuance that dishes from homemade fish fillets are much tastier. And also important is the fact that store-bought fish fillets are covered on all sides with a thick layer of ice “glaze” and after freezing, the weight of the fillet is almost halved.

Accordingly, for a fillet, although it is already more expensive than a fish carcass, you will have to pay much more due to the presence of ice glaze. Therefore, homemade fish fillets are half the price of store-bought hake fillets.

Recipes with whole hake

Ingredients:

Hake whole

We will need:

Knife
Board kitchen

How to cut a hake into a fillet step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

For work, we need a hake carcass without a head, a sharp knife, a kitchen board.

Step 2

Before cutting the fish should be washed and dried. Turn the hake upside down and cut out the dorsal fins with two knife cuts along the back. Make the cuts at an angle, cutting the fins with a wedge all the way to the spine.

Step 3

Turn the hake belly up and remove the pelvic fins with the same two cuts.

Step 4

Turn the fish on the "side" and, moving one hand with the knife parallel to the table, and lightly pressing the fish from above with the other hand, cut the "meat" from the spine, starting from the tail end.

Step 5

One fillet cut out.

Step 6

Flip the fish over to the other side and repeat the process.

Step 7

Remove the remains of the insides and small bones that could remain from the inner surface of the fillet (we check with our fingers to the touch).

Step 8

As a result, you should get two fillets and a spinal bone. The fillet is ready to go, and the spinal bones are folded into a bag and put in the freezer. They can be used when you cook fish soup.

How To Fillet A Hake

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Hake how to cut

How to cut a hake into a fillet step by step instructions with a photo

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