Grant's Crispy Lemon Whitebait

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Grant Dixon
Prep:5 minutes Cook:5 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

1 cup whitebait, washed and drained.
Flour.
Salt and pepper.
Lemon-infused rice bran oil.
Parsley.
1 lemon, quartered.

Directions:

Toss the whitebait in flour and shake the excess out through a sieve.
Add salt and pepper.
Take a really small omelet pan and heat a good dash of rice bran oil.
Bring to a medium heat and add whitebait, cooking until crispy brown.
Serve with a sprinkle of parsley, a drizzle of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Whitebait
One of New Zealand’s true delicacies, whitebait’s subtle taste is hard to put into words, but the price it demands in the shops, topping $100 a kilo at times, is testimony to its popularity among gourmets.
There are some seven species of native fish whose larval phases are loosely called whitebait. During late winter and early spring, the dates determined by geographical location, whitebaiters head for the rivers, streams and coastal river mouths armed with a variety of nets to trap ‘bait.