[Recipe + Video] Pescado Frito (Fried Fish a la Dominicana)

🧂 Ingredients

• 6 small seabass, snapper, or grouper

  (½ lb [0.23 kg] each) scaled, gilled, and gutted
• ½ teaspoon oregano (dry leaves)

  powdered
• 3 crushed garlic cloves
• ½ teaspoon pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)
• 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt

  plus more for serving
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 4 cup vegetable oil

  for frying
• 2 limes cut into wedges

Instructions

• 1 Score fish 3 or 4 times diagonally on both sides. 
• 2 Sprinkle each fish with a pinch of oregano, garlic, pepper, and salt. 
  
  Rub each fish with the cornstarch, making sure it gets into the cuts.
• 3 In a frying pot heat the oil over medium-high heat (350 ºF [176 ºC]). Deep-fry
  one by one until golden brown on both sides. 
  
  Place on a paper towel to drain excess oil.
• 4 Garnish with lime wedges, and serve with extra salt on the side.

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