The peppercorns can also be lightly fried in order to make a spicy oil with various uses.

It is typically lightly fried with oil in the initial stages of preparation of the dish.

In a variation, sliced pieces of gimbap may be lightly fried with egg coating.

The crabs were fried lightly to the crunchy stage, then cut into large segments.

The gladbeans, doused and lightly fried in sweet oil, followed.

The chicken muffolette was made of tender cutlets, lightly fried in olive oil.

There were eggs, four of them, lightly fried with their perfect golden yolks staring up at me.

Whole ones need only be fried lightly in a little butter and served hot with a wedge of lemon.

Calamari ($6) was as lightly fried as the menu promised.

When lightly fried in oil it turns radiant red and loses enough of its heat to allow for it to be eaten whole.