FRIED “TAWILIS” (Freshwater Herring) IN GARLIC INFUSED OIL

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FRIED “TAWILIS” (Freshwater Herring) IN GARLIC INFUSED OIL
(FRESHWATER HERRING-“TAWILIS”-THAI FISH SAUCE MARINATED FRIED IN GARLIC INFUSED OIL)
Do you know that “tawilis” is ONLY found in Taal Lake,
the lake in an island (Luzon)-where Luzon is also an island (one of the 3 major territorial Philippine islands:
Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao) and, still,
Philippines, by itself is completely a group of 7107 islands bounded
to the north & west by China Sea, Celebes Sea to the south and
Pacific Ocean to its right.
One of my “digs” when it comes to fried fish (aside from Galunggong).
Here, I added a bit of twist to its simple just-dump-single-raw mat-marinade
and the cooking oil medium.
Another easy yet tastiest frying approach.

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FRIED “TAWILIS” (Freshwater Herring) IN GARLIC INFUSED OIL
Prep time Cook time Total time
10 mins. 20 mins. 30 minutes
Serves: 6-8
Cooking media: Frying pan
Special instructions & notes: Extra care in frying. This tiny fish breaks up fast.
Ingredients
  • 1 kilo fully cleaned “tawilis”, internals removed.
  • MARINADE:
  • 40 ml. DEE THAI Fish Sauce (patis).
  • (I particularly recommend this Fish Sauce as I found it very tasty-NOT JUST PLAIN SALTY-and it imparts that seafood appeal I crave for in a fish dish
  • FRYING MIX:
  • 10 cloves crushed garlic
  • 100 ml. palm or soya oil
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in suitable pan. Add crushed garlic.
  2. After about 10 seconds, dump 2-3 pieces of “tawilis” in “patis” toss lightly and pour in into hot oil. Fry to desired consistency.
  3. Go through with the following batch until finished.
  4. “Patis” took the place of salt. Saltiness is evenly distributed in all parts of “tawilis” – a job NOT easily attainable by utilizing mere salt grains.
  5. Fried garlic adds a different note. Fact is, you can do the same with fried pork, beef, lamb etc.
DISCLAIMER: Above are test kitchen and household-produced dishes. All ingredients utilized are of food grade quality passing international and domestic sanitary standards. While we find the results highly acceptable, no guarantee nor explicit assurance is hereby issued when recipe is performed by readers. For one, although of similar breed, spices, herbs and other ingredients vary from country to country/region to region that possibility of affecting end taste, aroma & bite-feel is great. Further thereto, mentioned sensory evaluation (aroma, taste, mouth-feel) is subjective.
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