Milkfish
fillet meals are regarded to be a healthy dish
suitable for both adults and children. You can cook milkfish fillets as your
children lunch box or you can cook them into many dishes for breakfast, lunch,
or dinner. Milkfish is one of the safest fish to be consumed since it offers
lower mercury content level than other predatory larger fish including tuna and
salmon. Moreover, milkfish also low in fats, calories, and cholesterol making
it a good choice for dietary menu plan especially since milkfish also provides
high quality of protein, it can suppress your starving feeling when dieting.
Milkfish
fillet meals with various products
Buying milkfish fillets are sometimes quite
challenging since they are available with many products and prices. For
example, milkfish back fillets and milkfish belly fillets. The belly parts have
high fats content and often regarded as premium product and of course they are
sold in more expensive prices than other milkfish seafood products. Milkfish fillet meals recipes usually using
fillets as the main ingredients with marinating process (sometime) to
strengthen the flavor since milkfish taste is mildly unlike other fish with
stronger flavor.
People who prefer to purchase fillets
product it is because they have more elegant appearance than whole round fish,
let alone canned product. Fillets are as popular as steak; they are good for
making meals with nice presentation. Other reasons of why fillets product is
favoritism by so many people is because they want to have quick and easy
cooking preparation without need to debone and skinned the fish first. Of
course there are fillets with the skin still attached on. So, what’s about the
cooking preparation for milkfish fillet meals?
First, milkfish is known so well as a very
bony fish with numerous small bones that hard to be removed even by an expert.
They need to spend long time to remove the fish. If you purchase whole round
fish, sometime people just cook the fish with the bones and removing them while
eating. Of course such method cannot be done when you want to serve an elegant
presentation for milkfish meals. Alternatively, buying already filleted product
is the best option to have. Fresh fillets are available, but not as much as frozen milkfish fillet meals because frozen fish
can maintain the freshness of the fish longer by prevent the spoilage and
bacterial contamination.
What are the best methods when cooking milk
fish fillet meals? There are many ways to cook milkfish fillets from grilling
to broiling, from smoking to steaming, and of course the most popular way to
cook the milkfish is pan frying. Fry fillets fish is a simple cooking method
that can bring the milkfish taste for the best. You just need to cook the fish
in oil until the fillets turn golden brown and flake easily with fork. It just
need around not more than 30 minutes to cook simple milk fish fillet meals with
frying cooking method. But, if you want healthier meals then it is better to
cook the fish by steaming because it does not use cooking oil which gives extra
calories and fats to the dish.
Now, why you do not try makes this one
simple Asian milkfish fillet meals recipe at home?
Milkfish bangus fillet meal easy recipe
Ingredients:
·
Frozen milkfish fillets
·
1 cup of vinegar
·
Peppercorns
·
¼ cup of water
·
1 bulb of onion
·
Siling haba
·
Ginger (minced)
Instructions:
1.
Thaw the frozen milkfish
fillets first by store them inside refrigerator overnight or you can soak the
fish in a bowl of cold water for few hours if you running out of time.
Alternatively, just take the frozen fish out of the freezer and the rinse them
under cool water to remove the ice crystal.
2.
Prepare a pot and then add
water and vinegar, arrange the ginger, siling haba, eggplant slices, and the
onions.
3.
Cover the pot and bring to
simmer for 10 to 15 minutes till the fish fillets turns white and the liquid is
slowly lessened.
4.
Add small amount of oil and
stir to mix the ingredients evenly. Remove the pot from the heat and then serve
it.
It is a very quick and healthy milkfish fillet meals since you do not
need to deep fry it at all, enjoy them with the whole family!
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