Fish Sarciado

Fish Sarciado is a Filipino dish of leftover fried fish cooked twice in a sauce made with with sautéed garlic, onions, tomatoes and eggs

Sarciado in Tagalog means “cooked with a thick sauce”, that is why this fish dish is accompanied with a thick chunky tomato sauce. Fish Sarciado was invented by Filipinos in search for better ways to make a dish out of left over fried fish as these leftovers are not really as appetizing as the freshly fried ones, so an ingenious approach by adding tomato sauce and eggs did made the trick by not just rehydrating the fish but as well as removing the fishy odour and adding more flavour to the leftover. Having said that there’s nobody stopping you to cook this using a freshly fried fish, you can also use any fish you want as the sauce works with almost every fried fish I had tried like Mackerel Scad (galunggong), snapper (maya maya), grouper (lapu lapu) and even tuna. So the next time you have a fried fish or any left over fish and is planning to bin it try this dish instead.

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Fish Sarciado

  • Author: Raymund
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Cook Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 30 mins
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: Filipino

Description

Fish Sarciado is a Filipino dish of leftover fried fish cooked twice in a sauce made with with sautéed garlic, onions, tomatoes and eggs


Ingredients

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  • 4 serving portions Fried fish (freshly fried or leftover)
  • 6 medium tomatoes, diced
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 small onion, minced
  • 1 cup water
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • spring onions, chopped
  • fish sauce or sea salt
  • oil

Instructions

  1. In a wok, add oil and sauté onion and garlic in high heat
  2. Add tomatoes and continue to stir fry until tomatoes are soft.
  3. Add water and fish sauce/sea salt (according to your taste). Bring to a rapid boil.
  4. Once boiling add fish simmer for 5-8 minutes (depending on the thickness of the fish) then remove the fish and place on plate.
  5. Back to the wok; add the beaten eggs mix it together with the sauce. Turn the heat off and pour sauce over plated fish.
  6. Season with freshly ground black pepper and garnish with spring onions.

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23 Responses

  1. What an interesting dish – I love fish!
    🙂 Mandy

  2. Rita says:

    Great philosophy! Nothing gotta be wasted. We use a similar method to use left over fried meat, as well. To me it’s genial. You can have two dishes out of one!

  3. I’m always looking for new ways to have fish – this looks terrific !

  4. Tita Beng says:

    For me, nothing beats dalagang bukid when it comes to sarciado! Sarap! Though I haven’t tried incorporating your last two ingredients, tarragon and thyme. Time to make some revisions on my old recipe. Thanks Raymund!

  5. Meri says:

    Yum- thick chunky tomato sauce? Sold!
    I love how I always learn something when I read your blog!

  6. this fish recipe will be very popular at my home as we tend to eat fish most of the time.

  7. dregm says:

    Wow! i always learned something to cook everyday. tnx

  8. Farida says:

    Thta look so delicious, fish is good for our health and brain.

    farida
    kitchensuperfood.com

  9. Nice recipe! I love converting leftovers into something else. This looks very flavorful.

  10. I’ve never heard of it, but looks splendid! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  11. paniol.da.cooker says:

    this is the real tagalog sarciado! with a very little variation — we usually let the fried fish “stew” a little bit with the sauteed tomatoes.. then we add the eggs, letting it stick to some parts of the fish.. yummy!!!

  12. This recipe is delicious! I liked it even better than the fried fish originally made yesterday. I’m so glad I didn’t throw away the leftovers! Next time I might make extra fried fish on purpose. thank you

  13. Thanks for the great recipe! 🙂 indeed one way to bring leftovers to a great taste!

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