Nigerian Fried Fish With Flour

Hello my amazing foodie family, today I share with you my amazing fried fish recipe. This is an easy and perfect way to fry fish with flour and you will love it.

Growing up, eating fish fried with flour was one of my many fond childhood memories.

This is because fried fish is a Nigerian street food commonly sold by food vendors especially in the afternoon after school closes.

One of the reasons why this type of fish is mostly available in the afternoons is because of the demand is usually high at that time.

Many people buy fried fish at that time because it is a favourite ‘go-to’ food combination for drinking garri.

Now I will proceed to list the ingredients I used to make this delicious fried fish.

Ingredients for fried fish

2 mackerel fishes
1 cup all purpose flour
1 seasoning cube
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon white pepper – optional
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg powder
1 teaspoon ginger powder
1 teaspoon mixed herbs – contains parsley, marjoram, basil, oregano, thyme.

As stated earlier, this type of fish can be enjoyed with different foods.

Here are some food combinations I would like you to try with your fried fish when you make it.

Garri and fried fish
Oats and fried fish
Noodles and fish

These are the three most common combinations. Now I will proceed to the detailed recipe on how to use the ingredients listed above to make a very delicious fried fish.

How to make fried fish with flour.

Clean the fish well by removing the intestines as well as the fins and gills
Cut it into small pieces. I usually cut one mackerel fish into four(4) pieces.
Put the fish in a big bowl
Put the salt, seasoning cube, ginger powder, white pepper, nutmeg powder and mixed herbs in a separate bowl.
You can substitute the mixed herbs with thyme.
Mix all the ingredients
Pour all the ingredients onto the fish in the bowl
Cover with the lid or use cling film the wrap the bowl to secure the fish
Toss the fish in the bowl multiple times to ensure the fish is well coated with the seasoning.
All to marinate for up to 30 minutes or less – depending on how much time you can afford
Place the bowl of flour with reach
Coat the marinated fish with flour by gently turning it in the flour till all sides are properly coated.
Put the coated fish in a separate bowl.
Set the frying pan on the cooker
Add 3-4 cups of cooking oil depending on the size of the pan.
Heat up the oil for 2 minutes
Put the coat fish in the hot oil and allow to fry for 3 minutes on one side and 2 minutes on te other side
Remove the fried fish from the hot oil
Place on paper towel to remove the excess oil.