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[raymanuva]

Cought a moray eel eysterday, will be catching more next weekend.
Whats the best way to cook those? This time i deep-fried it, it was quite good but i guess it deserves a better cooking treament

If someone asks "where"?
Right in front of Amathus hotel where everyone swims. Aparently they are everywhere...

[triandaena]

Hi
In a long dish?

John

[titantrigger]

Best way is not to kill it in the first place. There is little enough sea life left in Cyprus as it is.

[RichardB]

How to Skin and Clean an Eel

An Eel is a very slippery creature, so hold it down by the head on a solid work surface with a towel. With a sharp knife, make an incision around the neck, just below the head. The thick filmy skin will separate. Grip the skin with a pair of pliers, and pull it down the length of the eel to the tail and cut it off.

Make a slit down the length of the stomach and pull out the innards. Rinse the eel well under cold running water. Cut off the head and slice the body into pieces.

Roll the eel in seasoned flour and shallow fry in a 50/50 mix of butter and oil.

Can also be used as an ingredient in fish stew but far better on its own served with a simple salad and lots of lemon.

Make sure you take the skin off as this contains toxins and could at the very least send you running to the toilet

[raymanuva]

titantrigger, its called fishing... morays are not an endangered type of fish

[raymanuva]

RichardB, thank you... i could have find it on the net too... infact thats exactly what i did anyway, including skinning procedure...without plyers tho.

Anyway, stew version sounds tasty... gotta try that one.

[RichardB]

I remember years ago when i first started cooking our hotel butcher went fishing and came back with a conger .

Honest to god it filled the boot of his Morris 'Marina' If I remember correctly we made about 60 fish cakes just from boiling the nead and using the flesh It tasted really gross- Now that was an eel and half

What size are you getting?

[raymanuva]

mine was up to a kilo and about 90cm long... it was enough for 2 people

[dinos]

For what it's worth, you could try grilled cheese with eel. Or pizza with eel. Eel fricassee, eel francese...if you're into that iron chef crap, you could make eel sorbet. Lots of possibilities...

[raymanuva]