Portuguese Fried Horse Mackerel with Sauce Recipe

This delicious Portuguese fried horse mackerel (chicharros) with sauce recipe will leave you craving for more.

Preparation time	15 min
Cooking Time	25 min
Ready In	40 min
Level of Difficulty	Easy
Servings	4

Ingredients

1,5 Kg of horse mackerel Corn flour (to taste)Salt (to taste)Sauce:6 cloves of garlic1 whole salted pepper (to taste), choppedVinegar (to taste)1 tablespoon of crushed red pepper sauce (pimenta moída)4 tablespoons of cooking oilChopped Parsley (to taste) Get Portuguese ingredients

Directions

Clean the mackerel, season with salt and set aside.
Meanwhile let's prepare the sauce.
Put the oil in a frying pan and add the sliced cloves of garlic and crushed red pepper sauce.
Saute for about 3 minutes.
Add the chopped salted pepper and saute for another minute.
Add the vinegar and finely chopped parsley to taste.
In another pan with hot oil, fry the fish previously passed in the corn flour, until they are golden brown.
Drain them on paper towel.
Pour the sauce over the fish and serve with baked or boiled potatoes and salad.

Recipe Credit: PortugueseRecipes.ca
Photo Credit: foodwithameaning.wordpress.com

Edu Costa

Member since Thursday, October 1, 2015, 8 years ago

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Comments

Duarte cabral

When you say minced ground pepper, do you mean crushed red pepper?

1 year ago, Wednesday, March 9, 2022

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Laurie Rogers Trlak

The recipe sounds delicious, but I don’t know where we would get horse mackerel here.

1 year ago, Tuesday, March 8, 2022

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Edu Costa

Depending on where you live Laurie, you would find it in the frozen food section.

1 year ago, Tuesday, March 8, 2022

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mike Macy

The real question is where can Americans living in the United States even find horse Mackerel?

2 years ago, Saturday, October 16, 2021

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Edu Costa

Hi Mike, I am sure you can get it from Portuguese stores if you live in highly populated Portuguese areas, we buy them frozen all the time here in Canada.

2 years ago, Sunday, October 17, 2021

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