Best Fish for Zarandeado Recipe

Zarandeado Fish, Best Cuts for Authentic Mexican Flavor

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Published on 07-07-2023

In the image, frozen snapper, of good size, 2 kg on average, ready to shake if you wish.

Zarandeado fish or shaken fish is one of the most typical dishes in Mexico, but what is the best fish to shake? Although most fish are edible and nutritious, well give you these tips so you can choose based on its flavor, freshness and size.

1- Snapper: Its flavor and texture is very rich. More thant 1 ½ kg it will be enough to start tasting it. This fish lives on the coast and shallow areas of mangroves or rocky areas in the sea, they eat small fish, shrimp and squid.

The best fish for zarandeado mexican style

2- Mahi-Mahi: Known as Dorado or gold fish, it is and elongated fish with a green-gold tone, hence its name. They grow to large sizes and live in more open and distant seas. They feed on relatively large fish. Its meat is delicious and juicy, highly valued in sport fishing.

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3- Corvina: Elongated silver-colored scaly fish, they reach large sizes, they live in open seas and also in estuaries and mangroves. In the case of cooking it shaken, it is recommended not to remove its scales so that its meat does not lose juiciness, Likewise, it is totally delicious.

In the image Snook in their natural environment, they are one of the favorite fish of fishermen.

4-Snook: Elongated, scaly, silvery fish with black stripes on both sides of its body. It lives in low rocky areas in the sea, it also reproduces in estuaries and mangroves. It is also highly valued in seafood gastronomy, mainly for shaking.

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5-Silver mullet fish: Known as male lisa, this fish is in the middle of the food chain, it is a herbivorous fish, it feeds on micro-organisms, plankton and some algae. It is long, silvery and flaky, its flavor is very different, but no less delicious. We refer to male plate bullet because they grow enormously. The female mullet is much smaller. The mullet fish is caught with nets mainly in estuaries and mangroves. They live in low areas also in the sea.

Final Recommendations
All the fish mentioned should be filleted -butterfly style- that is, a cut is made on the opposite side of the stomach and opened at the back. If your fish is scaly, preferably do not remove the scales. When cooking them, obviously use the -zaranda-, witch is a kind of manual grill in the shape of a clamp that embraces the entire fish once filleted. Use the type of charcoal of your preference in a rustic grill.