How to Clean Small Horse Mackerel

• 1 as much (to taste) Horse Mackerel

1. Quickly rinse the fish in a colander.
2. With the fish set belly out, use kitchen scissors to pierce the fish behind the head.
3. (It's important not to remove the head now).
4. Turn the belly towards you.
5. Cut towards the tail and tear the head off by dragging the knife downwards and pulling out the innards in the same movement.
6. ( Press on the belly and use your fingers to pull out the guts).
7. If the fish is big, remove the hard scales, but if it's little you don't have to.
8. Rinse well and place in a colander.
9. This time I seasoned and deep fried them.
10. We put the heads and guts into a cardboard compost box for easy clean up.

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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/144256-how-to-clean-small-horse-mackerel (may not work)