It's for presentation the same as if it has skin. The side that faces down first gets presented because the oil will be clean. If you are using fish with skin this will usually be skin first till crisp then turned and presentedskin side up so the diner can choose to eat or discard it.
shallow frying in a frying pan
You can shallow fry chicken as long as the chicken is halfway submerged when frying. Look up shallow fried chicken recipes
Deep frying
shallow frying means the food to be fried should not be completely dipped in oil while frying. For this, a flat pan is used rather than a deep bottom pan.
Advantages: its less fattening and more healthy Disadvantages: it doesn't taste as good as it would be if it was deep-fried.
A paellera is a large shallow frying pan in which paella is cooked.
There are lots of different ways, here are a few: boiling broiling frying sauteing dry frying shallow frying deep fat frying baking grilling toasting
use gas and fire.
A skillet or a frying pan is a wide shallow metal container used for cooking.
Cooking pancakes would be frying or possibly shallow frying.More information:Pancakes are described as cooked "on a griddle," or "in a greased pan." Because only enough oil or grease is used to coat the cooking surface, this is not really "frying." The term for "shallow frying" is "pan frying." "Griddle" is not used as a verb: one does not "griddle" pancakes, one cooks pancakes on the griddle.
Basically, nothing at all.However, shallow frying involves turning the food whilst still in the pan, whereas sauteing, the pan is "flipped" as in a lot of Asian cooking (Saute comes from the French - sauter - meaning to "jump".
There is sauteing where only a very thin film of fat is used in the pan. Then there's pan frying where enough fat is used so that it comes up halfway on the food being fried. Then there is deep frying where the food is submerged in fat.