Preparing and Simmering Alfonsino Fish

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Chef :

cookpad.japan

Preparing and Simmering Alfonsino Fish

There are many light fish recipes, I wanted to eat a one simmered in a heavier sauce.

Ingredient

half a fish Kinmedai (Alfonsino)

200 ml

★Mirin-style sweet cooking seasoning

2 tbsp

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

I bought the prepared alfonsino (kinmedai) from a reputable supermarket, so it was okay to wash it quickly, remove the scales and just clean inside of the fish. Basically it is same as cleaning a rudder fish (mejina). To buy a good fish, look for ones with firm flesh and golden scales!

* Step 2

Please refer to my rudder fish recipe for how to prepare.

* Step 3

Remove the black part and also guts, which are smelly, from inside.

* Step 4

Now it's clean.

* Step 5

This time, half the fish is for simmering and the the other half is for mixing with rice to make 'kinme-gohan'. So I prioritized simmering and prepared it like the one in the photo.

* Step 6

Remove the fish bones from the one for kinme rice.

* Step 7

Don't cut the belly flesh or the back flesh this time, like the one in mejina preparation. Use a fish bone extractor to remove small fish bones. Make crisscross cuts on the fish or else it won't simmer well because skin shrinks.

* Step 8

Don't turn over the fish while simmering because the flesh is soft, so put it in the pot with the serving side facing up.

* Step 9

Add all ★ ingredients to a pot big enough to accommodate the whole fish.

* Step 10

Be sure to add the fish after bringing the liquid to a boil. Bring it to a boil.

* Step 11

Add the fish! I forgot to mention this before but make crisscross cuts on the fish or else it won't simmer well because skin shrinks.

* Step 12

Cover it with a lid (I accidently wrote "Reed" in the originial recipe see Step 15 addendum), for this use a sheet of parchment paper...as a lid. The purpose of using a drop lid is to circulate the broth. Even if you don't turn over the fish, broth circulates over it. Be careful! Using a heavy drop lid damages the flesh.