How To Fillet A Fish

Hi welcome to Gourmet Market at Fin and Founder. I'm here with my colleague Paul, we're going to show you how to cook and prepare fish and hopefully go through the quality produce that we have in this shop as well. Hi there I'm going to tell you how to filet a flat fish.

Generally, all flats are the same pretty much on the frozen technique here. You need to find a nice serrated knife, flexible knife. We'll start with this one, put a finger in where the head is and get a nice grip, and you just cut, make an incision there, under my thumb, until you hit the bone.

Once you hit the bone, then the tip goes in just so it runs parallel with the bone, and you gently as you're pushing away you're gently pulling with your finger. And then we just come up the fish and take it down the other side. The other side do pretty much the same, finger holding the head, and you just find the bone there and insert the knife just on top, just on top gently kind of pushing down, obviously using the flexible blade.

And once that's in just above the bone, bring that up and cut, angle it down towards the blade. We want to waste as little as possible. And then you just push down going along the bone.

Once you get halfway you want a thin bone in the middle there. You kind of lift the knife up and then come back down. Go by the head and make the incision again and all we're doing is just running it along the bone using the flex of the knife.

Get as close to the bone as you can. And we're just getting rid of some of that roe there. You can actually eat the roe, in this case we'll just throw that away.

Let's give it a little wash, there you go, and this flat fish is fileted. .