Name: Deep Fried Anchovies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 2 min
Total time: 7 min
Ingredients: 300 g Anchovies ((10.5 oz)); 110 g Plain Flour ((1 cup)); Sunflower Oil (for frying); Lemon ((optional))

Deep fried anchovies are typical and most of all popular tapas food in Spain. They make an excellent sandwich topper or a starter and drizzled with lemon juice they are hard to resist. They also go well with beer!

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Now would you believe if I told you that I thought anchovies were salty naturally? But these little fish are not salty at all! It’s only the canned fish that is salty and this strong flavor is a result of a traditional method of preserving them (they are gutted, salted, matured and then packed in oil or salt).

So that was something I had learned after buying the fresh ones for the first time. They were nice and soft and most of all not salty!

If you haven’t tried them yet, now it’s the right time to do so!

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Deep Fried Anchovies - Easy Spanish seafood tapas with freshly squized lemon juice, Spanish food, fish, starter, appetizer, recipe, tapa, Spain | happyfoodstube.com

Deep Fried Anchovies

Prep Time5 mins

Cook Time2 mins

Total Time7 mins

Servings:

Calories: 418

Author: Julia

Ingredients

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

Instructions

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.
If you bought fresh anchovy fillets then you are lucky.
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.
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.

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Notes

It will take only a minute or two to fry them (no longer). Drizzle with lemon juice (optional) and serve with salad or as a sandwich topper.

Course: Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine: Spanish

Nutrition Facts

Deep Fried Anchovies

Amount Per Serving

Calories 418 Calories from Fat 90

% Daily Value*

Fat 10g15%

Saturated Fat 2g13%

Cholesterol 90mg30%

Sodium 157mg7%

Potassium 633mg18%

Carbohydrates 41g14%

Fiber 1g4%

Protein 36g72%

Vitamin A 75IU2%

Calcium 229mg23%

Iron 7.4mg41%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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