🇻🇺 Ni-Vanuatu Cuisine

Flying Fish Fry

Fried Flying Fish

Prep Time 10 min

Servings 4

Difficulty Easy

Calories 234 kcal

Small flying fish dusted with flour and fried whole until crispy. Eaten head to tail.

Ingredients

500g flying fish, cleaned
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Vegetable oil for frying
2 limes, juiced
1 hot pepper, sliced
Soy sauce for dipping

Instructions

1 Clean flying fish and pat dry.
2 Mix flour with salt and pepper.
3 Dust fish in seasoned flour.
4 Heat oil to 180C.
5 Fry fish 3 minutes until crispy and golden.
6 Serve with lime and soy dipping sauce.

Did You Know?

Flying fish leap out of the water using wing-like pectoral fins and can glide for over 200 meters.