Recipe Details

Fritto Misto di Pesce

A glorious Christmas Eve seafood fry — calamari, shrimp, whitebait, and scallops dredged in seasoned flour and fried until shatteringly crisp. Central to the Feast of the Seven Fishes.

Prep Time

45 minutes

Category

Seafood

Ingredients

10

Steps

7

Recipe and Instructions

500 gfresh calamari, cleaned and cut into rings
300 glarge raw shrimp, peeled and deveined
200 gwhitebait or small smelts
200 gbay scallops
2 cups00 flour or fine semolina
1 tspfine sea salt
1/2 tspwhite pepper
1/2 tspdried oregano
1 literlight olive oil or vegetable oil for frying
2lemons, cut into wedges for serving

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