How can I more effectively remove bones, when fileting a sardine?
Sardines ("kilu") are very common out here in Tallinn, and are very commonly eaten raw (e.g. kiluvõileib). It's particularly easy (and cheap) to find whole sardines that you can filet yourself. I have tried this at home in the following steps:
- Cut off the head.
- Slice open the belly.
- Remove gizzards and nonsense from belly.
- "Unfold" the sardine.
- Using a fork, grab the spine at the head-end of the fish and pull it straight out.
- Spend several minutes collecting bazillions of leftover rib bones, one-by-one, for each tiny fish.
The final step is obnoxious. I must be doing something wrong. How do I get the ribs out of the fish, efficiently?
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How do you get rid of sardine bones?
Open the Sardine and Remove the Bones The fish bones should now be exposed. Run your fingers or your knife along the fish's backbone to loosen it from the meat. Starting from the head and working towards the tail, gently lift out the backbone and ribs. The tail should pull off with the bones.How do you remove fish bones easily?
You can buy tinned sardines that are skinless and boneless, but the skin and bones are completely edible, supply a good amount of sardines' calcium content, and are soft enough that most people don't even mind (or notice) them.Do you remove the bones from canned sardines?
Use flour or bread crumbs or how ever you cook you other fish fillets. Put the fillets in hot oil. The hot oil will run through all the cuts and cook the fine bones in the fillet.More answers regarding how can I more effectively remove bones, when fileting a sardine?
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I find it easier to take the fillets off after it has cooked, although this is not always practical. Once its cooked you can prise the meat away along the spine and remove the top fillet. once the top one is removed you can pick up the tail and generally are able to peel the skeleton away from the bottom fillet.
I know not everyone likes to, but I think you can eat the bones of sardines too
I appreciate that this may not be much help if you are wanting to do something with the raw fillets, but may be useful...
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