There are dishes that beat you for their simplicity and this is one of them. Anchovies have always been a delicacy at home with which to end the day. Battered and with lemon, they become a wonderful dinner that the whole family gives a good account of.
There are many ways to eat anchovy, anchovy or bocarte. In Cooking Recipes we have prepared them stuffed with cheese, in vinegar and we have used them in salting to flavor various dishes. This is, however, one of the simplest ways to prepare them. And they are very apparent inside the lemon, do you dare to try them?
- 12 clean anchovies
- 1 egg
- Flour (XNUMXg)
- Olive oil
- Sal Island
- 1 lemon
- If our fishmonger has cleaned the anchovies we will only have to pass them through water to remove any debris that may remain.
- Once clean, we salt them.
- We beat the egg on a plate and put a little flour in another. We add a good amount of oil to the pan and put it to heat.
- We batter the anchovy open first in flour and then in egg.
- One by one and when the oil is hot, we introduce the anchovies in the pan. When the egg begins to set and acquire a golden hue we turn them around.
- Once done, we take them out and deposit on absorbent paper, to remove excess oil.
- We cut a lemon in half and we remove part of the meat from both sides, preserving the juice. We use them as bowls in which to present the anchovies.