How To – prepare flatfish, from Jamie’s America

hello and welcome to jamieoliver.com I’m
one of the food team and today I’m going
to show you how to cut a pocket and
stuff a flat fish I’ve got my fish in a
nice clean board and I’ve got a sharp
knife it’s got a little bit of bend in
the blade look for the backbone down the
bottom of the fish you can feel it and
feel a line put the tip of your knife on
the line just behind the fish’s head and
cut cut down to the backbone try an
almost to the tail of the fish and you
can hear the bones there now you made
your cut down the back you need to make
a cut horizontally against the bones of
the fish to take the bones away and
create a little pocket what you do is
put it into the cut lay it flat against
the bones and carve like that sort of
you carve the fish off the bones right
so my knife goes into the cup and it
turns slightly on its side then I’m
going to cut down against the bones to
create a nice little pocket
and then we’re going to do the same on
the other side so cut your knife in you
know if in flat against the bottom bones
cut it down and make a pocket just like
you did on the first side now you cut in
not quite to the edge of the Philip
which is round there this is all a space
you’ve got to to use if you’ve got a
flat bendy knife it follows the bones
and you can’t go too far wrong and
there’s a little pocket there to fill
the pocket in the fish lift the skin up
take a nice spoonful of the filling and
pop it inside now to fill the other side
just do the same thing hold the fish
open spoon in the Proms drop down