Barbounia fish, aka Red Mullets, are well known as fish of very distinctive supreme flavour white-red flesh. Especially those barbounia originating from the Monemvasia nearby waters of the Aegean Sea can be characterised as fish of excellent quality.

The red colour of barbounia is evident also in the oil that was used to fry cook them.

Normally barbounia come in sizes of about 14 per kilo. Their cousin the so-called koutsomoura comes also in smaller sizes. Connoisseurs would tell you that the smaller size the fish the better it tastes.

Well, they have not tried the much bigger of 4 per kilo as barbounia of this size are extremely scarce to find.