Making the horse mackerel figure

This visually stunning sashimi uses a whole horse mackerel. Once you've mastered filleting horse mackerel, you can apply this technique to filleting other fish as well
Japanese food
Seafood side dishes
Tamura Takashi
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Cooking time: 10 minutes
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How to make it
1

Cut the horse mackerel into three pieces. Remove any small bones from the filleted flesh with tweezers, then lightly rinse with vinegar

2

Peel off the skin, make cuts on the skin surface and cut into sashimi-like pieces

3

Insert a bamboo skewer into the tail and head of the backbone to form a bowl-like shape

4

Place [3] on a plate lined with garnish and shiso leaves, then arrange the fillets. Finish by topping with shiso flowers, shiso seeds, wasabi, and edible chrysanthemums, if desired

Ingredientsfor 2 people
  • Horse mackerel
    1 fish
  • vinegar
    A little
  • wife
    A little
  • Ooba
    2
  • (shiso flowers) For use as a topping
    A little
  • as a topping (shiso seeds) For use
    A little
  • Wasabi topping
    A little
  • Edible chrysanthemums for topping
    A little
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