KOMPAS.com – If you have catfish, you can make meat fillets for children’s side dishes.
How to make fillets From catfish meat, it’s quite easy to make sure the knife you use is sharp and the catfish meat is still fresh.
You can fillet the catfish meat, fry it in breadcrumbs to make katsu, or fry it crispy.
Check out how to make catfish fillets below, quoted from the book “Making Catfish Fillets & Processed Products” (2012) by Dra. Endah Dwi Hastuti published by Penebar Swadaya.
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1. Cut the catfish’s throat
The first way is to cut the throat without cutting off the head. The stomach is cut open from the throat to the anus and all contents and abdominal cavity are cleaned.
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2. Cut the head of the catfish
The catfish head is cut from behind the gill fins to the spine on both sides by breaking the head and pressing the edge of a table and using a knife to complete the cut.
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3. fillet the catfish meat
The catfish meat is sliced along the dorsal fin (until the knife touches the ribs) towards the tail until the tip of the bone is damaged.
After reaching the end of the rib cage, the knife is inserted until it penetrates and slashed towards the tail.
The meat cut on the back is held and the remaining meat on the ribs is cut towards the stomach and the stomach contents are removed.
The remaining flesh at the base of the spine can be scraped off with a knife or spoon.
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4. Separate from the skin
Next, the catfish meat is separated from the skin and black meat. To do this, the knife is placed on top of the skin and pushed in the opposite direction to obtain a knife fillets skinless catfish.
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5. How to wash catfish fillets
Washing fish meat is done to remove dirt and blood attached, add ice cubes to the water to wash it.
Meat fillets catfish are cut and weighed as needed.
