In order to clear the sturgeon from sharp scales, it should be frozen and rinsed with boiling water. After that, the pork will come off easily and the meat will not look half-cooked.
It is necessary
- - sturgeon,
- - a sharp knife,
- - refrigerator,
- - boiling water.
Instructions
Step 1
First things first: peeling fresh sturgeon is a laborious and traumatic process. The skin of the sturgeon is tough and "glued" tightly, and the thorns, with any careless movement, can inflict very painful and long-term healing wounds. Therefore, if your task is to clean exactly fresh sturgeon, then the easiest way to do this is to cut the fish into transverse pieces about 3 cm thick. After that, with a sharp knife, the meat is simply cut out of the piece, while the knife goes along the inner surface of the thick skin.
Step 2
If you need a whole peeled sturgeon, then you can't do without freezing. It is better to cut off the head, tail and fins in advance. After that, the sturgeon is placed in the freezer for several hours, until it is deeply frozen. Having taken the sturgeon out of the freezer, the first thing to do is to cut off the sharp chushuiks from its sides. When the sturgeon is frozen, this is no more difficult than cutting off a stick. You need to cut off the scales from head to tail, resting the sturgeon with its tail on something solid. It is best to do this in the top, as there is less chance of pricking, and it is easier to hold a slippery sturgeon this way than with bare hands. You need to cut off the thorns before the meat - these places will serve us later for skinning.
Step 3
After the thorns are cut off, the frozen sturgeon should be doused with boiling water. If we do this with fresh fish, we get an unpleasant effect in the form of semi-cooked meat under the skin. Freezing is needed precisely in order to keep the meat from the effects of temperature. After waiting a couple of minutes after sprinkling, you can begin to remove the skin - from the tail to the head, using the incisions on the sides in those places where there were once thorns. The scalded skin comes off quite easily.
