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  • Serves 6
  • 30 minutes
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 16 Ingredients

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This is simply the best dish to serve up when your not sure what to make for a special brunch or lunch. It sounds complicated but its not at all.


Ingredients (serves 6)

  • half kilo whitebait
  • 2 tspn ground chilli
  • 1 large mango chopped
  • 1.5 cups mint and coriander chopped
  • 3 tspn fried shallots
  • an amount vegetable oil for frying whitebait
  • 3 sprigs spring onion
  • an amount flour
  • MINT DRESSING BELOW
  • 2 crushed garlic
  • 1 red chilli chopped
  • 3 tspn white sugar
  • half cup lime juice
  • quarter cup fish sauce
  • quarter cup rice vinegar
  • 1 cup chopped mint

Method

  1. For mint dressing, pound garlic, chilli and sugar in a mortar and pestle to a coarse paste (2-3 min) add mints and pound to combine. Just before serving, stir in lime juice, fish sauce and rice vinegar.
  2. Heat vege oil in a saucepan or deep-fryer. Combine flour and chilli in a shallow bowl. Dust whitebait in flour mixture and deep-fry until crisp and golden (4-5 min) then drain on absorbent paper.
  3. Combine mango, herbs, fried shallot and spring onion in a large serving bowl, add whitebait and drizzle with a little mint dressing. Toss and serve with extra mint dressing and lime wedges.

Notes

Fabulous summer lunch to share with friends

  • I’ve had whitebait a couple of times, but never in a salad – this looks great!

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  • I’ve never had whitebait before.

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  • Have been looking for a good whitebait recipe for ages. Thanks for sharing.

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  • Not one that really appeals to me.

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  • I love fried whitebait as they are like crunchy little fishy goodness. I will certainly try this.

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  • I adore mango. In this dish it must taste amazing!

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  • I’d happily leave out the chilli but otherwise a yummy sounding new salad option for me.

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  • Mouth watering good – this recipe makes me incredibly hungry and happy! 🙂

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  • Terrific! This looks really nice! A good recipe as well! Thanks

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  • Thanks for posting. This looks delicious.

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  • Lovely delicious flavours in this delightful salad.

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  • absolutely a great idea. thanks for sharing this recipe

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  • yum what an awesome recipe

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  • Gosh, that looks totally divine.

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  • Cant wait for mango season again

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  • This sounds really tasty . 🙂

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  • What a gorgeous looking dish! Can’t wait to try it out!

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  • Such lovely flavors mixed in this meal

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  • Never tried whitebait before. Is it fishy??


    • I can tell you that it is utterly delicious.

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  • looks good, thanks for sharing

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