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Fish Prep & Butchery
How to Portion Fish Fillets Evenly
If you portion fish by length, you can end up with neat-looking pieces that cook at completely different speeds. Portion…
How to Skin a Fish Fillet
Skinning well is mostly about what stays still. Lay the fillet skin-side down with the tail nearest you, grip that…
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Fish Prep & Butchery
How to Gut and Clean a Whole Fish
Gut a whole fish by opening the belly shallow from the vent near the tail toward the gills, pulling the…
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Fish Prep & Butchery
How to Scale a Fish Quickly and Cleanly
Scale a fish by scraping from tail to head, against the way the scales lie, with a fish scaler, the…
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Fish Prep & Butchery
How to Remove Pin Bones from Fish
Remove pin bones by touch, not sight. Run a fingertip along the thick centre of the fillet, from the head…
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Fish Prep & Butchery
How to Fillet a Fish: Step-by-Step for Beginners
Fillet a fish with two cuts: one down behind the gill plate until the knife touches the backbone, then one…
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Fish Prep & Butchery
Fish Prep and Butchery: Every Skill You Need
If you can buy a whole fish but feel stuck the moment you get it home, this page is for…
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Storage & Food Safety Guide
Is Fish Skin Safe to Eat?
Yes — fish skin is generally safe to eat, and often delicious, when the fish is fresh, the scales are…
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Storage & Food Safety Guide
Fish Food Poisoning: Symptoms, Causes, and Prevention
Fish food poisoning most often causes diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes fever. How fast it starts depends on…
Recipes
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Salmon Recipes
Grilled Salmon Caesar Salad with Parmesan Garlic Bread Crumbs
Perhaps a testimony to its universally satisfying flavors, this was probably one of the most frequently used recipes in my…
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Recipes
Tasty Salmon in Dill Butter with Some Rice
This is a very tasty Salmon Recipe for fish lovers. This Salmon Recipe is a very easy-to-make recipe. You can…
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Recipes
Miso-Roasted Atlantic Mackerel
Mackerel’s rich, strong flavorpairs well with complex ingredients like miso and soy and iscomplemented by citrus andbright vinaigrettes
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Cast Iron
Cast Iron Skillet Style Zucchini Recipe
A Mediterranean Delight for Your Taste Buds If you are a fan of Mediterranean cuisine then you are going to…
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Recipes
Open-Face Bay Shrimp Salad Melts on Thick Toast
Years ago, while working as a private chef, I developed a recipe for Shrimp Salad that would become a surprising…
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FISH SPECIES
All You Need to Know About Tuna Fish: Types, Size, Weight, Habitat, Price
Introduction Tuna fish is widely known for its delicious taste and versatility in various culinary dishes. It is a popular…
Food Products
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Spice
Star Anise
Star anise is the star-shaped spice that adds a warm licorice kick to both savory and sweet dishes around the…
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Spice
Nutmeg
Why This Unassuming Seed Changed Human History Close your eyes and imagine a scent that transported emperors, sparked wars between…
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Spice
Mace
Why Mace Is the Secret Weapon of Refined Cooking While most home cooks reach for nutmeg without hesitation, discerning chefs…
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Spice
Clove
THE HOOK: Why Every Home Cook Needs to Understand Clove Imagine the aroma filling your kitchen on a winter morning—that…
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Spice
Turmeric
The Golden Root: A Master Chef’s Guide to Turmeric (Curcuma longa) If there is one ingredient that bridges the gap…
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Herbs
Garlic
If the ocean provides the catch, the earth provides the garlic. In the world of “Mahigar,” where we obsess over…
Fish Species
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FISH SPECIES
Wels Catfish
Although the giant wels catfish is native only to eastern and central Europe, it has been introduced into a far…
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FISH SPECIES
Northern Pike
The northern pike is an extremely adept, streamlined predator. Its body is designed principally for intense bursts of high speed,…
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FISH SPECIES
Grayling
The grayling is not a particularly large fish, growing to a maximum of about 60cm (2ft) in length, but they…
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FISH SPECIES
Rudd
At first glance, the rudd looks very much like a roach (opposite), but there are two main differences: a rudd’s…
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FISH SPECIES
European Chub
Sometimes in lakes. The European chub prefers medium- to fast-flowing clean water; it is also known to enter brackish water…
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FISH SPECIES
Common Bream
The most widely fished freshwater bream species is the common bream (also known as the bronze bream). They are found…
Cooking Methods
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Dry Heat Cooking Methods
Baking
The Ultimate Guide to Baking: From Ancient Art to Modern Science There’s a unique kind of magic that happens when…
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Dry Heat Cooking Methods
Roasting
Introduction: Beyond Baking – The Transformative Power of Roasting Fish In the culinary lexicon, the terms “baking” and “roasting” are…
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Dry Heat Cooking Methods
Smoking
Smoking is a dry heat cooking method used to flavor, color, and preserve food for immediate use. When smoking, heat…
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Moist Heat Cooking Methods
Boiling
Boiling is another moist-heat cooking method that uses the process of convection to transfer heat from a water-based liquid to…
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Combination Cooking Methods
Stewing
Stewing also uses a combination of dry– and moist-heat cooking methods. Stewing is most often associated with smaller pieces of…
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Combination Cooking Methods
Braising
Braising uses a combination of dry and moist heat cooking methods to provide the best aspects of both methods. Braising…
Who Is Mahigar and What is the Meaning of Mahigar
Mahigar is a combination of two words, “Mahi” and “Gar“. In the Persian language, Mahi means Fish, and Gar means Expert. Mahigar means a fish recipe expert or a chef who is an expert in cooking fish recipes. Mahigar is a food blog, and welcome to my food blog, MahiGar. Fishing and cooking are my hobbies. I have 20 Years of experience in fishing and fish recipes. In these 20 years, I have learned how to make fish recipes perfectly at home, better than in restaurants. In simple words, mahigar is a food blog, especially for fish recipes, fish cooking, and fishing.