Is saury a marine fish? How to prepare saury

In Japan, saury is a common food. When the season comes, every household can eat a few. Saury is shaped like a willow leaf, and its body is blue like the deep sea. So is saury a marine fish? How to handle saury? What kind of people are suitable for saury? Let's learn more about saury.

Contents of this article

1. Is saury a marine fish?

2. How to deal with saury

3. Suitable groups for eating saury

Is saury a marine fish?

In the market, a species of fish called "Sanma" is regarded as autumn saury, and some people even mistakenly regard "Sanma" as a synonym for "autumn saury", which is actually wrong.

Saury is distributed in the North Pacific, including the Sea of ​​Japan, Alaska, Bering Sea, California, Mexico and other waters. It is located between 67°-18°N and 137°E-108°W. It prefers a water temperature of 15-18°C. It is mainly distributed in the Yellow Sea in China. The depth is 0-230 meters. It is a deep-sea fish.

The saury is a migratory fish. Like the knife fish, the saury also has its own season. The saury is a fish that travels around the Japanese archipelago from August to September every year to March of the following year. Wherever it goes, it heralds the arrival of autumn or even winter. The knife fish, which Li Yu called "a wonderful spring delicacy", heralds the arrival of spring.

In Japan, saury is a common food. When the season comes, every household can eat a few. However, due to its scarcity, saury has become a delicacy that only a few people can enjoy. Perhaps because of its high production, saury can even be seen in farmers' markets nowadays - of course, it is freshly frozen. Saury is shaped like a willow leaf, and its body is the blue color of the deep sea.

How to deal with saury

1. If the saury is fresh, you only need to wash the fish body and remove the gills. There is no need to cut open the belly, because the best part of the saury is the intestines. Marinate the intestines with salt, and eat them directly after grilling or frying. You can taste the original flavor of the saury, which is quite good. If you are not used to this taste, you can also take out the internal organs. The way to remove the internal organs is to use two bamboo chopsticks to insert the fish belly from the gills, roll out the internal organs and gills, and put the fish in 80% hot water before washing it, and gently scrape off the mucus on the fish.

2. If the saury is frozen, thaw and clean the fish first, then follow the steps below:

① Cut open the fish's belly, take out the internal organs, remove the black film, and cut off the head and discard it.

② Spread the fish belly and cut a hole next to the spine with a knife.

③ Pick up the main bone from the head, lift it up and pull it down, while using a knife to help press down the fish meat, and remove the entire main bone.

3. If the fish gall is accidentally broken, remove the bitter taste in advance: the main component of bile is bile acid, which is difficult to dissolve in water, so the bile that penetrates into the fish meat is difficult to completely wash away with water. Soda ash can react with bile acid, and their product is sodium bile acid, which is soluble in water. So if the fish gall is broken, just apply some soda ash powder on the fish meat stained with bile, wait for a while, and then wash it with water, and the bitter taste will be eliminated.

Suitable people for eating saury

Saury is edible for the general population, but patients with cirrhosis should not eat it.

Saury contains unsaturated fatty acids such as EPA and DHA, which are indispensable to the human body. EPA and DHA have the effect of inhibiting high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, and arteriosclerosis. DHA is called brain gold. It is an essential nutrient for the development of the human brain and central nervous system, and is beneficial to the brain development of infants and young children. Regular consumption of saury by the elderly can achieve a good disease prevention and nourishing effect on the body. It can be said to be suitable for all ages.