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Fried Scorpion Fish
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
By David Sly and Cheong Liew
Published 2025
It looks incredible and menacing, but scorpion fish (also called rockfish) is easy to eat with your fingers, having sweet white meat and a slight crustacean-like flavour. ‘The scorpion fish has a very attractive body in wild red and white tones, and a spikey head. I think it’s reminiscent of a gurnard.’
Method
Cook it simply; deep-fried and whole. Season the fish with salt, pepper, lemon juice and olive oil, then roll it in flour and deep fry the fish in olive oil.
‘I put the head in the oil while lifting and holding up the tail, ens