Remove the black gill part of the fish before cooking
One of the ways to reduce the fishy odor when cooking soup is to remove the parts that create a fishy smell like the gills, fins, scales, bones, intestines, and slimy substances around the body…
If you don’t know how to clean fish, you can ask the seller to clean the fish for you at the market. That way, when you get home, you just need to process and cook it.
In addition, fish dishes are often fishy because of their internal organs. Fortunately, there are many ingredients that can effectively eliminate the fishy odor. You can soak and wash the fish with alcohol and ginger, and the fish will quickly lose its fishy odor and the meat will become more delicious.
During the cooking process, you can use ginger, which has a strong aroma. You should use a small amount and avoid using too much to avoid affecting the taste of the dish.
Methods to eliminate the fishy odor of fish
To have a delicious and non-fishy fish soup, you can soak the fish in rice water or fresh milk for about 15 minutes and then wash it with clean water to eliminate the fishy odor. Then, you can sprinkle salt on the fish or soak it in salt water and rinse the fish with water to reduce the fishy odor.
In addition, when cooking fish, you should marinate the fish with spices before processing to enhance the flavor and reduce the fishy odor. You can marinate the fish with spices such as onions, garlic, pepper, chili, and coriander. These spices will neutralize the natural aroma of the fish and remove its fishy odor.
Furthermore, many housewives want to marinate the fish with ginger. However, they don’t include raw ginger in the marinade because when cooking, the fish gets hot and the protein in the fish will seep out and counteract the deodorizing effect of ginger.
– Therefore, if you want to marinate the fish with ginger, you should put the fish in a pot and heat it up to coagulate the protein before adding ginger to marinate. At the same time, when cooking fish soup, you should add a little sourness, either from tamarind or sour starfruit, to neutralize the fishy odor and make your fish soup completely free of the fishy taste, instead becoming slightly sour and sweet, making it delicious and never boring.
The 4 fishy smells that cannot be removed, only discarded, ruined by cooking
When it comes to cooking fish, the biggest concern for everyone is the fishy smell. People try various methods to get rid of the odor. However, these four parts are the key areas that you should pay extra attention to. Without properly cleaning them, no seasoning can make the dish tasty.
