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How To – prepare a fish, from Jamie’s America


00:00:04hi and welcome to jamieoliver.com I’m

00:00:07one of the 15 and today I’m going to

00:00:09show you how to scale gut and score

00:00:12around fish like a track

00:00:15fresh fish are quite slippery so the

00:00:17best way to pick them up is to take a

00:00:19kitchen cloth wrap it around the tail of

00:00:22the fish then you can pick it up quite

00:00:24easily without it slipping so I’m gonna

00:00:27take it all to the sink

00:00:28I’m gonna scale it and I’m gonna cut it

00:00:33I’m gonna lay the fish flat on the

00:00:36draining board take knife and run it for

00:00:50two minutes when you think you’ve got

00:00:54all the scales of one side turn the fish

00:00:57over and have an or the other when you

00:01:04think you got them all off just have one

00:01:06more look check that you have so once

00:01:10you have dangle try it under the tap so

00:01:14now we’re going to gut the fish so pick

00:01:17it up with a cloth that’s before the

00:01:19kitchen towels before take a nice pair

00:01:21of sturdy scissors and this little hole

00:01:23of the bank view which is his bone push

00:01:25the citizen cut down the whole length of

00:01:29the fish between two fins and between

00:01:31the top two fins right up

00:01:35under the chin talking fish up

00:01:41it’s a horrible bit but it doesn’t take

00:01:43long so just be brave

00:01:50you might need to make another cut right

00:01:53here top just to the last bit rinse it

00:01:59out and this bit here the black bit next

00:02:23we need to take the Ghilzai so to do out

00:02:25the best ways to take pair scissors make

00:02:28a nice cut here cut here and just grab

00:02:35them and pull them out job done

00:02:40retirement attack now clean my try on

00:02:45the layer back on the board the little

00:02:48white with some kitchen towel oh now

00:02:52we’re taking a sharp knife and make a

00:02:55little slash in the side now the reason

00:02:58we slash them is so the tribe cooks a

00:03:00little bit faster it just helps to try

00:03:01and cook a little

00:03:02and also it opens up the flesh so the

00:03:05lovely seasoning like lemon herbs salt

00:03:07pepper gets into the fish and flavors it

00:03:09from the inside so the sharp knife just

00:03:13gently make the slash half a centimeter

00:03:17centimeter deep don’t cut all the way

00:03:19down to the bone one two and three we

00:03:27turn the fish over we’re not a little

00:03:31white with a kitchen towel and Sasha

00:03:34seems before one

00:03:42two and three that’s your fish