What to do with a rich catch in the summer? Dry it up! Drying fish at home is not difficult. You need to make a minimum of effort, and most importantly, be patient and wait for it to dry out.
It is necessary
Fish, salt, container, hooks, twine
Instructions
Step 1
You can dry any fish - large and small, river and sea. First of all, salt the fresh fish. Gut large fish, small ones can be salted whole. Lay the unpeeled fish in layers, sprinkle with salt. The first and last layer is salt, preferably coarse. Leave the fish for 2-3 days, then rinse and hang to dry. Use paper clips for this - make hooks out of them, hook them by the tails and hang them on a stretched string.
Step 2
If you often have to dry fish at home, it makes sense to make a hanger. Take a long rail 5x5 cm, stuff carnations on both sides of it. Make supports for her. A convenient thing: you can dry fish on it in the summer in the country or at home on the balcony - it is easy to rearrange it to the desired place. For drying fish in winter, you can place the hanger in the attic or in the apartment near the heating radiators.
Step 3
Gut the large fish, remove the gills, put it in a saucepan, sprinkle it with plenty of salt, add a glass of sugar and press down with pressure. Stir the fish once a day until the top is at the bottom and the bottom is at the top. After 4-5 days, rinse the fish thoroughly, soak the salted for several hours, wipe the abdomen with napkins, brush with vegetable oil or table vinegar from flies, if you dry the fish in summer. Insert the spacers and hang the fish on the hangers - just string on the nails through the eye sockets.
Step 4
The fish is dried, depending on the size and temperature of the air, from days to several weeks. Dried fish is good with and without beer. You can smoke a slightly dried fish and get a delicacy incomparable in taste and quality with purchased smoked meats.
