Fish fillet
Also called fish filet
A fish fillet is fish that can include muscle, fat, and skin. Cooks use it as fish.
- Fish
- Allergen: fish
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Fish & seafood
- Made from
- Fish
- Part used
- Fat, muscle, skin
- Cooked most in
- Europe
- Top country
- Finland
- Dishes
- 2 in the catalogue

Photo: François Nguyen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use fish fillet
Preparing it
Remove any scales before filleting. Carefully separate the stomach contents from the fillet. Pin bones can be removed with a J-shaped cut.
On the table
Dishes made with fish fillet
Kalakukko
Finland
Tel'noe
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include fish fillet.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: fish fillet in detail
- Allergens
- Contains: fish
- Animal origin
- From: fishChecked and not found: egg, meat, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
- Caffeine
- None
Family
Related forms
Around the world
What fish fillet is called
Italian
filetto di pesce
German
Fischfilet
Greek
φιλέτο ψαριού
Turkish
Balık filetosu
Russian
рыбное филе · Филе рыбы · Филе рыбное
Arabic
سمك فيلية
Persian
فیله ماهی
Hebrew
פילה דג
Chinese
魚塊
Japanese
三枚おろし · 三枚卸し · 三枚下ろし · 二枚おろし
Korean
생선 필레
Vietnamese
Phi lê cá
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Armenian
Ձկան ֆիլե
Basque
arrain xerra
Cantonese
魚柳
Czech
rybí filet · rybí filé
Esperanto
fiŝfileo
Galician
filete de peixe
Kazakh
Балық сүбесі
Slovenian
ribji file
Swedish
fiskfilé
Ukrainian
філе риби
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikidata item: Q15944430
Photos
Photo: François Nguyen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons