Recipe: Yummy How to Filet a Pacific Saury (Sanma)

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How to Filet a Pacific Saury (Sanma). Great recipe for How to Filet a Pacific Saury (Sanma). Notes from what I learned during a one-day sushi making class. I asked a former fishmonger, and according to him if you don't have a specialized fish cutting knife, a well sharpened kitchen knife is fine!

During the Edo period, Sanma was classified as a low… Ready to eat!

How to prepare: Microwave, or place the bag in boiling water, or grill in oven.

Made in Taiwan Sanma is rich in DHA and EPA.

You can cook How to Filet a Pacific Saury (Sanma) using 1 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of How to Filet a Pacific Saury (Sanma)

1. Prepare 1 of Fresh Pacific saury (sanma).

They are said to be good for blood circulation and for activation of the brain.

It is said that liver has vitamin B.

The internal organs of the saury are mostly.

The meat of the sanma is separated from the bones and innards a bite-sized portion at a time.

How to Filet a Pacific Saury (Sanma) instructions

1. Wet your cutting board. Place the knife on the far side of the board, and have a kitchen towel ready too. This is the basic mis en place? for professionals. I used a 15 cm knife..

2. You are supposed to hold your knife like this when cutting up a fish, put your index finger on the back of the blade..

3. Scrape the scales off the fish by scraping the knife lightly over it..

4. Insert the knife into the gill and cut off the head..

5. The head is cut off..

6. Cut into the belly of the fish from the tail end towards the head..

7. The belly is cut now. Wash and scrape the guts out under running water..

8. This is how it looks after the guts have been washed out. Pat dry with kitchen towel..

9. Score the belly of the fish, then cut into it towards the backbone. When the knife hits the backbone, stop..

10. The white line shown in the photo represents the back bone. Cut up to the red part, and stop your blade at the bone..

11. Score the back side of the fish. Using that as a guideline, cut into the fish towards the bone..

12. The white part is the back bone. Cut up to the red part, and stop your blade at the bone..

13. Insert the knife from the tail end over the bone. Hold the tail with your left hand as you do this..

14. Holding the tail with your left hand, run the knife over the bone as you cut it. You go from left to right as shown in the photo..

15. It will look like this..

16. Score the rest of the fish on the belly side in the same way, then cut into the fish towards the bone, holding your knife at a 45 degree angle..

17. Score and cut the back side towards the bone in the same way..

18. Insert the knife into the tail end as in Step 10, and cut and slide it over the bone. Work from the tail end towards the head end..

19. The fish is now divided into three parts..

20. There are some small bones in this regions, to slice through them with the knife..

21. Remove the small bones with fish bone tweezers and youre done! I bought mine from a 100 yen shop..

22. For pan frying you can just leave the skin on..

23. If you want to remove the skin, start from the head end and peel it off slowly with your hands. It should peel right off..

A bit grated daikon is then picked up with the chopsticks, placed atop the fish, then picked up and placed in the mouth.

Of course, this can all be done with a fork and knife too.

A classic Japanese fall dish, grilled Sanma (pacific saury) is cooked whole over hot charcoal until the skin crisped up and golden.

The smokiness from the charcoal adds a layer of amazingness to the dish.

Enjoy with grated daikon and lemon.