Recipe and source notes

Deep Fried Anchovies

2 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 300 g (10.5 oz) Anchovies
  • Sunflower Oil for frying
  • 110 g (1 Cup) Plain Flour
  • Lemon (optional)

Make it step by step

  1. If you bought whole fresh anchovies, you will need to remove their heads, gut them (if you cut the heads off, the guts come out together with the head) and take out the spine bone.
  2. If you bought fresh anchovy fillets then you are lucky.
  3. Once you gutted the anchovies, put the flour in a large bowl. You will coat the anchovies in flour. You have 2 options: Throw all of them at once in the bowl and using your hands coat them in flour OR coat them one by one (they are quite fragile and this way they will keep their shape better.
  4. Heat up the oil in a medium size sauce pan. When the oil is hot enough, throw in (carefully) the anchovies. Make sure there is enough space in between them. Depending on the size of your pan and the amount you are frying you might need to do it in a few batches.
  5. Enjoy!

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Recipe source

Adapted from Foodista by Julia, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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