How to Properly Cook a Fillet

Fish fillet is a good source of protein. Kids and everyone love fillet because you don't need to separate the fish bone from the fish meat while eating. It's ready to eat anywhere even if you're blindfolded.

Meat of fish cleaned and deboned is fillet. The family of Yellow Fin Tuna is good for fillet, as the Blue Marlin or milk fish from the Philippines make good fillet recipes.

Here are tips how to properly cook fish fillet:

1. Wash the fish.
2. Put salt or pepper or the herbs you desire. It depends on what recipe you'll be cooking. Some fillet recipes are marinated for a night or for some hours before cooking. Some can be cooked immediately. It depends on the recipe.
3. Beat 2 eggs. Set aside.
4. Prepare flour in a wide bowl or tray. Quantity depends how much fish you are cooking.
5. Get another big plate or tray.
6. Dip fillet in beaten eggs.
7. Roll in flour.
8. Lay coated fillet in one big plate.

Note: So it depends on the recipe you're cooking. You can fry the fillet in hot oil. After frying you set it aside to cook another recipe with sauce like soy fish steak, sweet and sour, or fillet in tomato sauce.

If fried, you can dip fillet in mayonnaise, catsup, or a dressing of your choice. Fried fish fillet recipes are good to eat with fries

You can also make fish fillet sandwich with lots of vegetables. This can be eaten with pasta or salad.

If you choose to cook fish fillet in sauce, let it simmer for a few minutes in the sauce and it will be luscious to the tongue. The egg is the secret there. So it's the egg first before the flour. You can also mix flour with cornstarch.

Flour is okay. Cornstarch makes it crispy. Ready- mix crumbs like Japanese mixes for frying can be used for fillets.

Fillet in Sweet Sour Sauce:

After coating the fillet as shown above,

Mix vinegar, sugar, 1 cup water, 1 cup soup stock, and some cornstarch in a bowl. Heat slowly. Put sliced onions, ginger, and bell peppers (optional: or canned pineapple). Mix with the sauce as to desired sweetness. Pour in the fried fillet. Cook slowly in fire until fillet gets soft. Don't overcook vegetables. Yum! You have your Fish Fillet in Sweet and Sour Sauce.

Option: You can buy ready sweet and sour sauce mix in supermarkets. You can just add the vegetables and the fillet to the sauce mix.

Happy cooking!

Rose Flores - Martinez

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Cook That Meat Properly

A digital meat thermometer is a great cooking tool to add to your arsenal of cooking supplies. These gadgets will definitely take the guesswork out of cooking. They work by measuring the internal temperature of your cooked meat or poultry (or even a casserole) to ensure that a safe temperature is reached, harmful bacteria has been destroyed and your food is cooked to perfection; and a digital meat thermometer will also prevent overcooking.

It is very simple to use a meat thermometer. You insert it through the fat side of the meat while being careful not to touch any bone as bone conducts heat faster and you will get a false reading. For example, if you are inserting the digital meat thermometer into a turkey, push it into the thicket part of the breast near the inner thigh to ascertain an accurate reading. For roasts, steaks, and pork chops insert the stem into the center of the thickest part away from not only bone but also fat and gristle. For food like ground meat patties, you would insert the stem sideways and for food like meat loaf, you would place it into the thickest section. This is also true for seafood, casseroles and egg dishes.

Most digital meat thermometers are accurate to within plus or minus one to two degrees Fahrenheit. Before you purchase a thermometer be certain that it is a meat thermometer and not a candy thermometer. Be sure that you look for a dial that is easy to read and that it is made with a clear, shatter-proof lens. Buying a stainless steel digital meat thermometer is important as well. You do not want to purchase plastic as some plastics contain formaldehyde, a chemical that can leech into your food if it gets too hot.

According to the US Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service there are certain internal temperatures that food must reach in order to be considered safe to eat. The examples below are for well done food:

170 degrees for steaks, roasts and pork chops
165 degrees for chicken and turkey
165 degrees for egg dishes and casseroles

There are such a wide variety of digital meat thermometers from which to choose ranging in price from a few dollars to over one hundred dollars. For example you can get a CDN Proaccurate Stainless Steel digital meat thermometer for approximately fifteen dollars. It is a great buy if you enjoy backyard grilling as it can be used in the oven and for grilling. It includes an automatic off after ten minutes feature and it can be safely cleaned in the dishwasher. The Super Fast Thermapen digital meat thermometer is a top of the line thermometer that was originally made for professional chefs. Purchase price is around eighty dollars and it is fast and accurate as it will display temperatures in only three or four seconds. This model includes a reduced diameter needle tip that only requires 1/8" immersion allowing you to take the temperature of even the thinnest meat patties. It automatically comes on when you open it and shuts off when you close it.

With the rise of food related illnesses, a digital meat thermometer would make a sensible and a handy addition to your cooking resources.

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