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Brilio.net - Catfish is one of the fish that is widely cultivated. This type of freshwater fish is often consumed as a side dish at home or in restaurants. Its delicious taste and soft meat make catfish popular with many people .
Even so, quite a few people avoid catfish because it smells fishy. Apart from that, the large amount of mucus that sticks to catfish makes some people reluctant to process it themselves. Indeed, it takes a special trick to get rid of the fishy smell and mucus in this catfish .
One method that many people often use is to coat the fish with salt and lime juice. After investigating, salt and lime can loosen the mucus that sticks to catfish. However, please note that salt and lime cannot immediately eliminate the fishy smell.
The fishy smell of catfish is not only caused by its abundant mucus. However, the catfish innards must also be cleaned well. Well, this process is often ignored by many people.
Luckily, an Instagram user @dirumah.khawla once shared a powerful trick to overcome this problem. Not only does he share tricks for removing mucus, he also has his own method for getting rid of the fishy smell in catfish.
Reported by BrilioFood from Instagram @dirumah.khawla on Thursday (15/2), the trick to getting rid of the fishy smell of catfish is to remove the blood clots. Yup, not many people know that some parts of catfish contain blood clots, which, if cooked, can cause a strong fishy smell.
photo: Instagram/@dirumah.khawla
Well, these blood clots are on the right and left edges of the neck or bottom of the catfish's head. How to take it is quite easy. You just slice the right and left sides under the fish's head with a knife. After that, pry off the blood clot with your fingers.
photo: Instagram/@dirumah.khawla
Blood clots that have been removed can be thrown away immediately. Then rinse the catfish until clean. That way, the fishy smell will decrease drastically or even disappear completely.
But it doesn't stop there. In the next stage, you still have to remove the catfish's mucus with wheat flour. To do this, put the catfish in a bowl. Then sprinkle with flour. After that, rub the catfish with the flour until the mucus comes off.
photo: Instagram/@dirumah.khawla
Basically, wheat flour will stick to the catfish's mucus, resulting in lumps forming. Well, these lumps of flour and mucus can be immediately removed by rinsing with running water. That way, catfish can be cooked directly with various kinds of spices.
photo: Instagram/@dirumah.khawla
Having been watched more than 1 million times, this video about tricks for getting rid of the fishy smell and mucus in catfish has immediately attracted the attention of netizens. Who would have thought, many other TikTok users were interested and admitted that they had just found out about this trick. This was then expressed directly through the comments column.
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"Oh, that's a blood clot? I thought it was a kidney," said TikTok @CronyBrugh.
"I cooked catfish and corked the head, I threw it away... it can't be eaten either," said TikTok @AlfatihAliCake.
"I got this tip from my late grandmother and I always use it when cleaning catfish," said TikTok @twilight.
"I removed the mucus using salt, most of it seems to be salty," said TikTok @riskaalmahyra.
"Patin fish also have white threads, so clean it so it's not fishy," said TikTok @dualima02.
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