Fried Whitebait
From sitbynellie 14 years ago
- 3 minutes to make
- Serves 6
A lip-smacking delicious way of getting one of your two weekly portions of oily fish! I'm only guessing at the number of portions as we two greedy-gutses have been known to eat the whole lot. The drawing on the left was done by a dear friend of ours no longer with us, in a thank you card we received after we'd had dinner together. Read more Lily's thing was penguins! Note: we don't eat whitebait all that often as they are the fry (young) of various fish, and their fishing is controlled as a means of protecting fish stocks. See less
Ingredients
- 2 oz. plain flour, mixed together with: shopping list
- Quarter of a teaspoon of curry powder shopping list
- Quarter of a teaspoon of ground ginger shopping list
- Quarter of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper shopping list
- Quarter of a teaspoon of salt shopping list
- 1 1/4 lbs. fresh or thawed frozen whitebait shopping list
- (Description of whitebait, quoted from www.whatamieating.com shopping list
- "Whitebait are tiny fish, including the young of the herring and sprats, and are usually fried and eaten whole. If you run your fingers down the ridge of the belly when they are uncooked, if they are smooth they are young herring, if spiked, sprats. In the United States whitebait is more likely to be predominantly silversides or sand-eel fry.") shopping list
- vegetable oil for frying shopping list
- lemon wedges to serve shopping list
How to make it
- In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients.
- In this mixture, coat the the fish.
- In a solid pan, heat an inch or two of oil to 350-375F.
- Fry the whitebait in batches for 2-3 minutes until the flesh is golden and crispy.
- Drain well on kitchen paper.
- Serve hot, garnished with lemon wedges.
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Great recipe Susan. Thanks for the post :)
donman
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LOOOVVEE this one. Thanks so much for sharing.
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