Whitebait Soufflé

Name: Whitebait Soufflé
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup milk .; 250 grams whitebait.; 1 tablespoon butter.; 1 slice stale bread .; 2 eggs, separated.; Pepper and salt .

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Cascade Whitebait
Prep:10 minutes Cook:20 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

1 cup milk .
250 grams whitebait.
1 tablespoon butter.
1 slice stale bread .
2 eggs, separated.
Pepper and salt .

Directions:

Warm milk and butter until melted.
Pour over bread and let soak in. Beat bread to a pulp.
Add egg yolks, pepper and salt.
Gently add whitebait. Fold in stiffly-beaten egg whites.
Pour into buttered casserole dish and bake 20 minutes at 200°C.

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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.