Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fried whitebait. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Heat a saucepan filled halfway with vegetable oil over medium heat. Put the flour into a plastic bag with the salt, hold it closed and shake to mix. Put a handful of whitebait into the bag, close and shake to coat with the flour.
Fried Whitebait is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Fried Whitebait is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fried whitebait using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fried Whitebait:
- Get all-purpose flour (to coat)
- Get sea salt
- Prepare 12 whitebait (more or less depending on how many whitebait you want to use)
- Prepare as needed sunflower vegetable oil (to fry)
- Get optional: fresh lemon juice, to sprinkle over fish
- Take optional: mayonnaise, to serve alongside the whitebait
Whitebait is an old English term for little tiny fish, dusted in flour and fried crispy. But it's also a popular dish around the Mediterranean like in Italy and in the Pacific like Australia and New Zealand. I lightly dusted the whitebait in flour and then fried them for a few seconds. The small, crunchy fish are served with an easy aioli of egg mayonnaise, cilantro (coriander), garlic and lemon juice.
Instructions to make Fried Whitebait:
- Wash and prepare the whitebait. Dab with kitchen roll to remove any excess water and place in a bowl.
- Sprinkle with salt, add as much as you prefer. Leave in the fridge for 30+ minutes to absorb some of the salt.
- In a shallow bowl add a good amount of flour.
- You can deep fry the whitebait however I chose to do mine in a shallow fry. So if shallow frying pour about 200-300 ml of oil into a frying pan and heat on a medium to high heat.
- Coat the fish evenly in the flour and carefully drop into the hot oil as you go along.
- Fry for 4-5 minutes on each side.
- Dab with kitchen roll to absorb some of the oil.
- Optional: sprinkle with the fish with the lemon juice, serve with mayonnaise.
- Serve almost immediately. It's great as a starter.
Fried whitebait are particularly delicious washed down with a cold glass of beer. Heat oil in a frying pan. Coat the fish with flour and fry them until golden brown. Whitebait are very small fish, no bigger than your little finger, and although frying seems to be a sinful word, it is the only way you can cook them. You use a little oil and you fry for two to three minutes.
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