Dadle la vuelta al pescado con la espátula para que no se rompa.

Dadle is an affirmative command.

It is made of:

• dad = you all give / you all do (the vosotros imperative of dar)
• le = to it / to him / to her

In this sentence, though, darle is part of the idiom darle la vuelta a algo, which means to turn something over or to flip something.

So dadle here is basically turn it over, addressed to more than one person.

Yes, very much so.

Dad is the vosotros command form, and vosotros is the normal informal plural you in Spain.

So this sentence sounds like Spain Spanish because it is talking to more than one person informally.

Other possibilities would be:

• dale la vuelta... = say it to one person informally
• denle la vuelta... = say it to you all in Latin America, or to you all formally

Dar(le) la vuelta is a very common expression meaning:

• to turn over
• to flip
• to turn around

In cooking, darle la vuelta al pescado means turn the fish over, usually so it cooks on the other side.

Literally, it looks like to give it the turn, but you should learn it as a fixed expression.

Because Spanish often uses both:

• a pronoun: le
• and the full noun: al pescado

So le and al pescado refer to the same thing.

This is very normal in Spanish, especially with structures like dar la vuelta a algo.

So:

• Dadle la vuelta al pescado
  means literally something like
• Give it the turn, to the fish

but naturally it means

• Turn the fish over

Because the expression is darle la vuelta a algo.

That a is part of the structure. Then:

• a + el = al

So:

• a el pescado becomes
• al pescado

This does not mean the fish is an indirect object in the same way as in English grammar explanations. It is better to think of darle la vuelta a algo as a whole pattern.

This is an important vocabulary difference:

• pez = a live fish
• pescado = fish as food

Since this sentence is about cooking, pescado is the correct word.

So in a pan, on a plate, or in a recipe, you usually say pescado, not pez.

Con means with, so con la espátula means with the spatula.

It tells you the tool you should use to turn the fish.

So the structure is:

• Dadle la vuelta al pescado = Turn the fish over
• con la espátula = with the spatula

This is very straightforward Spanish.

Because para que is followed by the subjunctive when it introduces a purpose.

Here the purpose is:

• turn the fish over with the spatula
• so that it doesn’t break

So after para que, Spanish uses rompa, the subjunctive form, not rompe.

Compare:

• para que no se rompa = so that it doesn’t break

This is one of the most common uses of the subjunctive in Spanish.

Here se romper / romperse means to break, to come apart, or to fall apart.

The se does not mean the fish is doing something to itself on purpose. It is a common Spanish way to express that something ends up broken or breaks apart.

So:

• romper = to break something
• romperse = to break / to get broken / to fall apart

In this sentence:

• no se rompa = so that it doesn’t break apart

That is especially natural for food like fish, which can easily fall apart while cooking.

Yes, you could, but the meaning shifts slightly.

• para que no se rompa = so that it doesn’t break
• para no romperlo = so as not to break it

The first version focuses on the fish itself staying intact.
The second focuses more on your action and avoiding damaging it.

In a cooking instruction, para que no se rompa sounds very natural because it emphasizes the result: the fish should stay whole.